I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at ThousandEyes (San Francisco, CA) in May 2016
Interview
I got contacted by the recruiter through an introduction from my peers. The whole process was made by four phases: recruiter phone screen, design challenge, technical phone interview, and onsite interview.
Recruiter goes through my background and one portfolio piece during the initial phone screen.
A design challenge received the next day after recruiter phone call. It is a very interesting and exciting design problem with some necessary contexts and specific expectations. I took 4 days to finish it.
After submission, I got a call from the recruiter to schedule a phone interview with VP of Engineering. In this quick technical phone interview, I got asked some behavior questions around how to collaborate with different roles, deal with feedback; Also questioned some of my design decisions in the challenge submission.
In the onsite interview, three one-on-one sessions with their designer, VP and CTO. The focus was my portfolio pieces and some critique for my chosen product. An onsite challenge was given after one-on-one sessions with different stakeholders. They picked one workflow in their product I’m interested, and give me some background and current use cases. I'm expected to go through a whiteboard session to show how I proceed the design and communicate concepts.
Received the offer the next business day. The whole process is really smooth. The recruiter Steven did a fantastic job to collaborate the process, give me quick responses, and arrange logistics for the onsite interview. He always kept me in loop and help me prepare the interview! Super thanks!
The team is quite friendly and shows respect for the candidate in a kind and warm way!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Take-home challenge is to design a task management system to help working professionals balance work and life
Your most frequent design tools?
Contacted by the recruiter and scheduled an interview with their CTO. The CTO forgot to call me on the planned interview time. After getting touch with the recruiter again, the CTO assigned me a design challenge to help them identify issues and provide improvement ideas on their existing product. After that, the recruiter told me that they would not move forward and refused to provide any feedback from the challenge. Completely disrespectful for candidates' time!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Try their existing product and identify potential issues. Provide hi-fi prototype that shows improvements.
I applied online. I interviewed at ThousandEyes in Jun 2017
Interview
I applied online and received an email from a recruiter, then scheduled a phone interview with their CTO. However, I was rescheduled for several times with last-minute notices. I was assigned with a 1-week design challenge to help them identify current issues and provide some improvement ideas on their existing product--free labor. And they didn' t answer any of my specific questions. Then the similar case happened to me--after the interview and design challenge, they do not want to move forward and refused to give me any feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Try their existing product and identify potential issues. Provide hi-fi prototype that shows improvements.
I applied online. I interviewed at ThousandEyes (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2017
Interview
Phone screen with CTO, then design test, then onsite. The whole process was pretty straightforward. The questions asked were not very UX/UI focused, which confused me a bit. Asked a lot about previous experience.
