I applied online. I interviewed at Klaviyo in Oct 2020
Interview
Applied online and within a few days I was requested for an interview with the recruiter. Everything was fairly straightforward, but the recruiter was very disengaged. She had her video off initially, and I wish she would have left it that way so I could not see her attention was not on our conversation . After each question, she seemed to be more focussed on the following question rather than my response. After certain questions, her follow up to my answer was "what else" which was off-putting.
Klaviyo seems like an interesting company experiencing great growth, but if the culture is similar to my experience with their recruiter, then I'll pass.
Applied online, received email to schedule a screening call a few weeks later. A day or so after the screening call received email to schedule interview with the hiring manager. She was great, very professional, asked relevant questions. About a week later was notified that I didn’t make it to the next round.
Communication throughout the process was great, they have an online portal to track application status, and on the whole I felt like their process was much less dehumanizing than I’ve come to expect from tech companies.
I have no clue what the process is because their recruiters refuse to offer me even a simple screening. I'm a 17-year SaaS veteran with 9 years in customer success, and my experience is very well aligned with their roles—yet I receive an instant rejection (likely from their applicant tracking system).
While watching women continually land roles here and at other organizations all over LinkedIn, I'm convinced that Klaviyo is practicing discriminatory hiring practices based on age and gender. Everyone is beginning to understand that "DEI" often means fewer men and more women. It's just a matter of time before the ship rights itself and companies start focusing on productivity and employee retention again.
I applied online. I interviewed at Klaviyo (Sydney)
Interview
The interview process at Klaviyo was straightforward. I did only an initial recruiter screening and a conversation with the hiring manager. Both discussions were professional and gave a basic overview of the role and expectations.