I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Rude Cosmetics in Apr 2025
Interview
Interviewer asked about myself and went through my portfolio. The interview was super basic and easy. Also they gave me design assignments. However the amount of assignments and the timeline were crazy. They only gave me a day to do my assignments and didn't send me any material or details after the interview. I assumed the work environment will be horrible from that experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself
Questions about your portfolio
I applied online. I interviewed at Rude Cosmetics (Los Angeles, CA) in Sep 2024
Interview
Interviewer didn’t ask much about my portfolio, only asked me to tell him about myself and what programs i used. Nothing design related really. I usually don’t expect interviewers to know that much about design but they were clueless and didn’t know what the needed.
I entered the video interview early, and the interviewer was already in the waiting room so we began the interview. He did not ask me about myself, instead started drilling me on questions about my career. As a professional, I answered them, but he would ask personal questions that made me uncomfortable. He would then repeat questions. He did not look at my qualifications as truth even after I sent him my portfolio. Even though the job description said social media- he made sure to mention that “office work” would be included in the role. But, Thats not advertised on the job listing. I felt he was very racist. He even made a comment about my curly hair. All of the social media posts on their Instagram are of white women - absolutely no people of color whatsoever. After my interview, I came here to see reviews of the company and I’m not surprised. Dodged a bullet.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What have you done on social media- like how do you know the algorithms?