I applied online. I interviewed at Trove Predictive Data Science (Buffalo, NY) in Aug 2020
Interview
Applied online received a link to complete a one-way video interview. The video interview was strange and impersonal and I wasn't really prepared for the questions that were asked so no surprise that I didn't get an offer.
I sent an email for an update a few weeks later and received a generic rejection which was better than nothing at all.
After the fact, I heard that there were major management issues there so I'm glad it worked out the way it did.
I applied online. I interviewed at Trove Predictive Data Science
Interview
Hmmm not so hard. Maybe they will not call you on site. As they actively hire employees remotely. So they know how good you will be over the video call.
The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Trove Predictive Data Science (Redwood City, CA) in Feb 2017
Interview
They asked me to do a piece of free work, and I understood them to mean that I already had the job. It was weeks before I heard from them again, and it was a different exec who made it clear I hadn't been hired yet... but still wanted me to do more free work for them. I declined.
As it turns out, they only had about enough work to keep me busy for two months, tops.
Terrible, terrible, probably illegal in some aspects.
NOTE: When a potential employer asks you to do free work, make sure you have a way of "taking back" the work you did for them. Save the old version, and re-upload it to the site. Otherwise they just think they can get everything done for free by duping tech writers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Will you do MORE free work for us even though we haven't committed to hiring you?
