This was one of the stranger interviews I've done. I had a journalism degree and a couple of years of experience teaching at the college level, so the job description and company looked interesting when I applied online. A few days later, I got an email asking me for the most supplementary material I've ever had to submit for a job application. As other reviewers have mentioned, they wanted unofficial college transcripts, a specifically academic writing sample (the other jobs I'd applied to wanted journalism clips or marketing copy), and my old SAT scores from back when I was in high school. I was already a few years out of school by this point, but fortunately it was still recent enough at this point that I could still log into my university accounts and pull up unofficial transcripts, the SAT scores I'd used to apply, and an old paper from a journalism ethics class. It definitely signaled that they wanted young, inexperienced applicants; if I had graduated form college 20+ years ago, I probably would have had to give up at this point. Anyway, I submitted the materials, and then heard nothing. Then, three months later, I get a email from another Cambridge employee, offering me an interview. I was still looking at this point, so I went to the interview. I started with an interview with a senior executive, who was friendly and easy to talk to; this was the one part of the process that felt like a normal interview. Then another employee took me to a desk and gave me first a proofreading test and then a timed essay prompt much like you'd see on the writing section of the SAT. Felt like a throwback to school, but I figured it was because their main product is test-prep materials. After that, I never heard from them again. I never got to the next round, so I didn't get to meet the infamous CEO or see the apparently abysmal benefits package. At first I was disappointed, but after reading the reviews here, it was for the best that I did not get this job.
