I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Peanut App
Interview
I went through 3 rounds of interviews: (1) Interview with Head of product/design - Talked through my experience - About the role, and about Peanut (2) Task interview - I had been given 3 questions in advance to prepare answers for. - Talked through my responses in the interview, and was asked questions (3) CEO/founder interview - Gave me pitch on the business - Talked about my experience, asked me questions etc. At this point, the process was meant to be completed. However, after the CEO interview, the Head of product/design asked if I could have a quick chat to their CTO (i.e. they added an extra round). I was going on holiday the following week, so asked for it to be before then. They couldn't make that work so I volunteered to do the interview while I was away on holiday so I could bring the process to completion. We set up a time/date for the CTO and I to speak. I spent at least half a day of my overseas holiday preparing for the interview. I dialled into the call from my hotel room but the CTO didn't show up. I emailed and got a response from the Head of product/design saying sorry, there was some issues with times/connection, and that they'd get the interview rescheduled asap when I got back. They didn't get back in touch. A week after I got back, I emailed them, and a few days later got a response saying they were progressing with another candidate. I received no meaningful feedback or reason for why they didn't want to continue the process. Unfortunately, I didn't receive an apology or acknowledgement from the CTO.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. If you are part of the founding team at Peanut, and you need to define the order in which you show profiles to users in the profile stack, how would you approach this? What would your MVP look like? 2. How would you tackle the problem of misinformation on Peanut? 3. If you were the PM in charge of in app monetisation, how would you look to measure success, what are the key metrics you'd focus on?
First there was one recruiter screening interview then one interview with hiring manager then I don’t know because I didn’t make it past the second one but I believe maybe a task.
