I applied through my school and got a reply back very quickly asking me to take their assessment. They said it would take about 1 hr and 45 mins, but it took more like 2.5 hours. I don't think the test was that bad - if you have a college education you shouldn't find it difficult. I guess I scored high enough because the recruiter got back to me the next day, saying she sent my application to a corporate recruiter. The corporate recruiter then contacted me a few hours later, and we scheduled a Skype interview for a couple days later. My negative experience wasn't towards the assessment as many reviews on here are, but towards the interview.
Let me tell you, I prepared for a while for this interview, studying and practicing many interview questions and asking friends to mock interview with me. It was still good practice for me, but they legit did not ask any "interview" questions other than "What is a weakness that you have?". That was literally the only question they asked. Everything else they asked was about my major, what extracurriculars I did at school, why I left my previous part-time job, and if I smoked/used tobacco products. They also asked strange personal and irrelevant questions. For example, I was applying to their Houston office and live in another city in Texas, and I'm willing to relocate there. The recruiter asked me why I'd like to move to Houston, and I explained my reasons with one of them being my boyfriend lives there so it would be nice to be with him. She then asked if I was going to be moving in and living together with him, or moving to live by myself, and then wrote down my answer. What does that have to do with anything?? It was a very weird and personal question. They seem to ask irrelevant personal questions often based off the other reviews.
Two more things I did not like, the first being the recruiter was 15 minutes late to the interview. She did not message me until 12 minutes after the scheduled time, saying there were technical problems. It was kind of annoying but whatever, things happen. But during the interview, she asked me a question and I was in the middle of answering it when she interrupted me and said she was going to start telling me about the company now. I was taken aback and was like "oh okay" and then she said it was because I was breaking up a lot. Like okay? Was I breaking up the entire time? Why not tell me earlier instead of interrupting me completely and ending the interview? I had checked my connection and everything with Skype before the interview, and she was late due to technical issues so it's likely that it was a problem on their end, but they still made me feel like it was my fault and I was not worth finding more about.
They asked me nothing about my experiences, my coursework, who I was as a person, why I wanted to join the company, what I had to offer, why I would be good for the job, etc. They were literally just jotting down my basic information and asking strange personal questions. At the end of the interview, I was waiting for the recruiter to hang up first but after she didn't I was going to hang up myself, but before I ended the call I heard a male voice begin speaking "So...". That made me feel really weird because it seemed as if there was somebody else listening into the interview or watching it, and they didn't speak until after it ended. The whole process was just SO weird.
Another thing is that apparently they pay pretty low, even for an entry-level job. I asked for $45-50k a year because that is the average starting salary for the kind of job I applied for, and is the average that's listed on Glassdoor. I think my salary requirement was most likely a factor in why I did not get an offer, because they probably wanted to pay less. Of course I'd love a job right out of college, but I'm not desperate enough to settle for a job that has a weird invasive interview process and wants to pay me $35k/yr, which is a salary I could make right out of high school with no college degree and barely any experience (that's like $16-17/hr people!!). Getting no offer was probably a blessing in disguise, thank you @god for looking out for me!
