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Updated Jan 31, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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City Year Corps Member at City Year Headquarters
Posted Jan 31, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 (took 5 days)
2 phonecall interviews
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Vice President Marketing at City Year Headquarters
Posted Jan 9, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Boston, MA (took 4+ weeks)
After applying online, I was contacted by hr at city year. Following phone interview, I was
Asked to travel to Boston for interviews with HR, including EVP of HR. I was introduced to the marketing team as " someone you'll be seeing more of". I was told there was a pool of 15...but after 10 days received a communication saying I did not need to come back. It is a terrific organization. The culture seems terrific - I was very disappointed not to have another opportunity to meet with them
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Strategy at City Year Headquarters
Posted Nov 15, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 (took 2 weeks)
My interactions leading up to the interview were pleasant enough : HR staff were pleasant and responsive. The interview itself was very off-putting, however, and made me want to back away very slowly from the organization. (This is not to be disparaging in any way; it just became clear that it was not a culture in which I would thrive.) The interviewer skipped all small talk and opened the interview by declaring s/he was going to ask me a series of questions and, afterwards, I could ask one or two questions of my own. The questions were either simple information requests - which could readily be answered by the details on my resume - or attempts at psychographic profiling ("if I were a cartoon character, who would I be?"). The manner in which the interview was conducted was more controlling and unnatural than any interview I've ever had - even safe stabs at adding humor and levity on my part were met with small, exasperated snorts.
My sense is that City Year employees (HR, at least) are very inexperienced professionallly. The organization seems to have a clear idea of the type of culture they want to foster and protect (not a bad thing) and my sense is that that culture can be described as homogenous, tightly controlled and maybe a bit wide-eyed and naive (it is an education organization, after all).
Definitely not a place for me, and not one I would personally recommend. But if you're into the Red Jacket-Khakhi Pants uniform (mandatory wear on Fridays), go for it.
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Culture
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Corps Member at City Year Headquarters
Posted Apr 13, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2008 (took 3 weeks)
First, you do the on-line application. Then you do a 15 minute pre-interview. After you pass the pre-interview, you do 45 minute interview in person. If you are not in town, you can do another phone interview.
After a few weeks, you get your acceptance or rejection letter.
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There is no negotiation. All corps members have the same salary.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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