I applied through university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at IXL Learning
Interview
It was an odd interview process. First round telephone screen, where they ask you what you'd improve about the product. From what I've heard, everyone passes this round as long as they have a couple things and then they give you a project to work on. The project takes a while.
If that goes well, they have another phone screen with you where they ask you plenty of questions about the project.
If you get past that, they call to gauge your interest and invite you onsite.
For the onsite, there is 1 technical interview and maybe 4-5 PM interviews. They ask some seriously weird questions, including brainteasers, very odd behavioral questions. One PM asked me how I make decisions; when I told him the standard industry techniques, he told he'd never used them before and it was something he might have learned in college.
I left the company with no idea on what opinion to have..
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Question 1
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I applied online. I interviewed at IXL Learning (San Mateo, CA)
Interview
Long process, onsite especially was ridiculously long with 6 back to back interviews with different people. Interview with PM -> take home case -> take home case review interview with PM -> full day onsite. Multiple recruiter calls to check in between rounds. Although everyone was very nice and culture seems great, overall unpleasant experience because of how long it was + multiple logistic mistakes by HR that dragged out the process. Can definitely tell they care a lot about their talent pipeline especially for APM and they are very picky for this role (role is open for almost a full year, last APM cohort was just 3 people). Easiest parts of the interviews were logic puzzles and behaviorals. Hardest: asked LC questions in technical interview with engineer during onsite which caught me off guard
Had a quick 30 min interview followed by a take home assessment and was asked to meet with a recruiter to talk about my solution. Didn’t hear back but overall communication was swift.
I was first contacted by a recruiter who told me I would be interviewing with a current product manager. Then, I was told if the product manager liked me, there would be a take home assignment that I would complete and potentially moved to the final round.
