Initial contact was having to do a difficult test and it was completely open it did not feel very personal at all. You essentially go on their site and read the problem and it felt irrelevant to the role
I applied online. I interviewed at Clipboard in Jan 2024
Interview
The company seems to be pretty cavalier with candidates' time. The first step of the process (before ever talking to anyone) is to complete a case study that takes 8-10 hours minimum to do something of quality. The case study is actually a fun an interesting challenge, but it appears the company uses these case studies as their starting point of candidate assessment. If they don't like your case study, you get an automated rejection. So they never engage with you in any way, but expect a significant investment of your time. Effectively, if you are applying to this company, you should consider this first case study part of the application, not the interview process and then ask yourself if you are willing to invest 10 hours into an application to a company. To the company, a lot of your blog posts talk about wanting feedback and even after the rejection you ask for feedback and say how important it is to you, and yet I'm seeing pretty consistent feedback that you don't seem to be interested in addressing. Again, I think the case study is excellent, but if you are asking for such a significant investment from your candidates, you owe them a small fraction of that commitment in return.
After submitting an application they emailed me the next day asking me to complete a case study. It was very intensive for a first round “interview.” I hadn’t even talked to a real person on the phone yet. I sent my case study in and didn’t hear back for a few days. I followed up via email and they asked me to send more details showing my work. I sent them what they asked for and then they never answered any follow up emails until finally sending me an automated rejection email. I never spoke to anyone on the phone. For it being a first round thing, it is way too labor intensive. People’s time is valuable.
Side note though is if you google the case study it’s all over the internet. Other applicants post about it and share what they submitted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Complete a case study on Lyft and profit maximization
I applied online. I interviewed at Clipboard in Mar 2024
Interview
Like so many others I was given an automated request to complete a case study. I spent a decent amount of time on the case in good faith despite reading that very few even make it to a screening call. This was also my experience.
Clipboard is everything wrong with hiring right now.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The case study was a pricing problem at a rider sharing company like Lyft.