I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Flamboyan (Baltimore, MD) in Jan 2022
Interview
The process began with a phone call to learn more about the position and the organization and to share a bit about myself. From there, an official phone screening (which was not really a phone screening, it was a Zoom meeting) was scheduled. After that, I was scheduled for a 2.5 hour panel interview and was asked to do a hiring exercise in which I had to provide a solution to a particular problem. The instructions on the exercise were to spend no more than three hours on it, but I don’t see how anyone could do less than 6-8 hours. Normally, I don’t provide free solutions/trainings/labor/etc during the interview process but I felt confident that being this far was a good sign and I learned a lot along the way. So I submitted the exercise (which you are given 72 hours to complete). I thought that I would be presenting my work, but it was barely even asked about during the interview. The interview was broken into segments to meet with different members of the team and while everyone was lovely, no one asked about my experience. It was a very “tell us what you would do about xyz” type of interview with several folks.
After the most rigorous interview process I’ve ever been through, over the span of 3 months (plus a month of radio silence after the panel interview) I got the cold, automated email of death saying they went forward with other candidates.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What is an aspect of the role you think you would excel at? What is an aspect that you think you’ll need time to learn?
I applied in-person. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Flamboyan (Washington, DC) in Sep 2015
Interview
Received an email to come in for an interview after submitting through email. Met with of their former COOs a few years ago. Their representative was rude right from the beginning. Explained to me that one of their board members wrote a book on management which they all follow as gospel. Proceeded to tell me, a Sr. Communications professional, how I should be communicating for them. But the problem was they were hiring a communications professional because they needed one to grow their program, not the other way around. They wanted me to complete a communications assignment to one of their current problems which I refused. No Sr. communicator would ever give you a marcomm plan for free so that the organization can use it for the other communicator who is hired to solve the organization's communications problem. I have never had a bad interview until I met with Flamboyan. To this day it reminds me of the type of places I want to work at. I've moved on to bigger and better organizations but that interview still reminds me of that a toxic leader can do in an interview to drive away a potential good fit for the organization. Sounds like a great organization mission but they have a serious ego and leadership problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They wanted keywords to be used on tackling communications for the organization. Example, how would you tackle a communications crisis for the organization? Give examples utilizing keywords, from what THEY thought should be used.
