I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at tado° in May 2024
Interview
Sehr schnelle Rückmeldungen, praxisnahe und sinnvolle Aufgaben sowie eine sehr gute und transparente Kommunikation von Anfang an. Insgesamt hatte ich drei Interviews: Zunächst ein Gespräch mit dem Design Lead, anschließend die Präsentation einer Aufgabe vor dem Team, und zum Schluss ein Experience Day vor Ort.
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Question 1
Gespräch über mein Portfolio, Erfahrung in interdisziplinären Teams und Arbeiten in einem schnellen, dynamischen Prozess.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at tado° (Munich, Bavaria) in Apr 2024
Interview
The interview process started off as great, very friendly and timely in their feedback and process of moving forward. All the discussions were clear, the hiring manager and other stakeholders were nice but very thorough in their questioning. Except for this one external marketing consultant who thought being tough, and putting candidates under pressure was the right thing to do. And she seemed to be the one having the most influence- felt extremely rude and felt like she was always ‘testing’. The process took a turn for the worst when they invited me to their offices and then gave 2 tasks which were to be solved in an hour- and that too on their laptop. It felt less like an honest case study evaluation and more like an exam where one performs under pressure. I’ve little respect for companies that ask candidates to take an entire day off work, travel all the way to another city and then pressure test them. Even worse was the presentation and questioning that followed. The entire process left me drained and disillusioned and not wanting to work for such a company where their job description doesn’t match the candidates they shortlist and despite being honest about one’s experience and gaps, the company tries to make you feel like you’re not a fit. Thank goodness it didn’t work out, I eventually found a better role and saw that they role at Tado was still live on LinkedIn for the next few months.
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Question 1
What’s the difference between branding and marketing/
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at tado°
Interview
It went very quickly, took around 2-3 weeks altogether, overall I had 3 stages (2 interviews with different team members and an experience day at office). I would say that process is well structured and smooth. The only thing I didn't like is that I was asked about my compensation expectations in front of other team members during my second online meeting.
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Question 1
During the first stages there were very basic questions "Tell me about yourself/experience" and similar easy ones. When I was invited to the office for the experience day, I was informed that there would be a task lasting about an hour. I asked the HR manager if she could give me a brief idea of the task so I could better prepare, but unfortunately, I wasn’t given any specific details.
Additionally, I was told I could bring my own laptop for the experience day to work on the assigned tasks. However, when I arrived, I was provided with their laptop instead, which had Windows as the operating system. Since I hadn’t worked with Windows for over five years, it was quite disorienting. To complicate things further, the laptop had a trial version of Microsoft Office, which was quite buggy.
One of the tasks involved working with data in Excel. While the tasks themselves were fairly simple, I found that I needed more time to refresh my logic/ approach to it and to get familiar with provided data, also Excel was malfunctioning—some formulas and charts weren’t working properly. This made the process more challenging than it needed to be. I shared all of those problems with hiring manager and suggested that I can do one more approach to solve the tasks, but in the end I was rejected.
Despite these issues, I found the company environment and the people there to be great overall.