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Updated May 15, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior Software Engineer at ModCloth
Posted May 15, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2012 in South San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)
30 minute Phone interview with Lead Engineer.
1 hour Pair Programming session with lead engineer.
Cool guy. Comfortable pair programming session. Lead expressed that he was impressed with my speed in Vim and the pair programming session. Noted that my rspec skills were better than most people who apply with a lot of ruby experience. This was the ideal interview. Show your skills at test driving code.
Recruiter lines up next interview which is to gauge where my interests lie
( ie. which of the two teams needing help am I best fit to serve )
2 one hour Q and A sessions with two possible teams I would be working with.
First Team:
Pretty kick back guys. Simple questions about how to implement a rails erb code snippet using backbone.js. What are your weaknesses? What are you most comfortable with?
Second Team:
Chill and professional guys. When they enter, I was told they only had a half hour to spend on the interview. We ended up discussing jasmine.js issues and solutions that we both encountered and I helped them solve an issued they were currently facing, so the session ended up lasting pretty much the full hour, until the recruiter knocked on the window to cut it short. ( Either very apparent that I was not a good fit from the first group's feedback, or else there was some emergency that the second group really had to attend to ). Simple backbone.js and jasmine.js questions mostly.
The amount of positive feedback throughout process practically guaranteed the job, but I failed to impress in the Q and A sessions apparently and was surprised to hear three days later that "the team is looking for more experience, so it's not going to work". Was told I would hear back from team within a day regarding a decision, but I had to contact the recruiter twice after the supposed decision date to get an answer. Overall quick turn around though and I'm happy for that, but I'm still pretty confused regarding selection. The Q and A sessions should involve some programming rather than mostly small talk and white-board psuedo-code that does not involve much problem solving.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Social Media Internship at ModCloth
Posted Apr 25, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 (took 2 months)
I applied for the position in March and got an email asking me to answer some questions. I answered well within the deadline and heard nothing back for a few weeks. Meanwhile, I got an offer from another company with a deadline. I followed up with ModCloth a couple of times and finally heard back from them on a Friday. They wanted to schedule a phone interview with me on Monday.
Monday comes, and the interview is scheduled for 4pm. At exactly 4pm I get an email telling me that they had to cancel the interview, as they had already filled the position.
I have no idea what happened, but needless to say it left a very bad taste in my mouth.
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Analytic Guru at ModCloth
Posted Apr 19, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 (took 2+ weeks)
I received a test on some questions that need some basic statistic mindset to solve, and some SQL questions, which I think were easy but there were so many of them that I worked couple of hours. And then i received a phone screen request 2 weeks later and had the call the next day. The lady interviewed me was pretty rude and she answered one of the question by saying that it was the concern of some other team. I felt that there is very few collaborations between teams and people are stressed by fast paces. I just had the interview but I'm sure the result is negative. I have negative feeling for the company too.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Software Engineer at ModCloth
Posted Mar 19, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 1 week)
Had a phone screen interview with them after solving a programming challenge on CodeEval. It was very brief and they replied in a few days that they weren't interested.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Professional at ModCloth
Posted Mar 11, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Pittsburgh, PA (took 3 days)
The interview process from start to finish felt somewhat rushed. I had a phone interview with the head of talent acquisition. At the end of the phone call, I was asked to come in and interview in person... before the call ended, the guy told me that I should consider "talking less and being more brief"..... it kind of put me off - I assume he was trying to coach me for the next interview but it was off-putting and weird. I was scheduled for an onsite interview the following day. I met with the recruiter for a few minutes and she was very nice. Professional. I felt it was a good interview. She gave me good info about the company and the job and asked about my background. I also had a video interview with the Head of talent acquisition (the same person from the phone interview) the guy was nice but typing on his computer for most of the conversation. In fact, he asked me the same question a couple of times. I met with a couple of other members of the team but mostly they talked about themselves and what they did for the company. The offices were cool, the atmosphere there was nice, a couple people walked past me while I was waiting for the interview to start and they said 'hello' and smiled - always a nice thing when you feel welcomed.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Product Manager at ModCloth
Posted Feb 19, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 6 weeks)
Initially learned about the company through a friend who was applying for a different position. Applied online, including a general 2 open-ended question exercise. Contacted for a 30min phone interview with Head of Talent acquisition, followed by a 30min on-site 1:1 with Director of Product the day after. Moved on to a 3hr 2nd round of interviews on-site with the whole PM team and Director of UX. These were 7 people total, a combination of individual and panel interviews. Two and 1/2 weeks later, I got called back for a 3.5hr third round of interviews. The final round with 5 more people, executives (CMO, CEO) and directors. Within a week they informed me that an offer was made to another candidate. While there was very short lead time before each round (3 of the appointments made with <24 hrs) and interviewing with +12 people, the vast majority of the interviewers were well prepared, sharp, and on point. So by the end of the process, I had a great understanding of the company and potential challenges.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Data Warehouse Engineer at ModCloth
Posted Oct 6, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Pittsburgh, PA (took 3 weeks)
This started off as a great opportunity, but quickly went downhill. I spoke to the internal recruiter and she was impressed. Although she didn't have much information on the job. I ended up taking a skills test and was asked to come in for an interview. I scheduled the interview, but had to contact them a couple days prior to see if I was still coming because I wasn't given any details. I ended up speaking with three individuals. Two were technical and they couldn't even tell me what was expected of the position. One of the guys was giving me grief for not having Ruby on Rails experience even though the job description didn't state that. I felt like they just wanted some free advice from interview candidates. The recruiter was going on maternity leave soon, so she said to email if I didn't hear anything. I waited a couple weeks, sent an email and found out that nothing had been discussed. They got back to me in a couple of days saying I didn't get the job. I was very disappointed in the process and the fact that they did not know what they wanted.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Business Analyst at ModCloth
Posted Jul 12, 2011 — 3 of 3 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 (took 4+ weeks)
I applied online for this position and a few weeks later got an email stating I'd made it to round 2. They asked me to complete a "mini-test" in which they had me create a detailed report (identifying potential new features, bugs, etc.) from a user testing script. This took a couple of hours to complete. Less than 30 minutes after submitting that, I got an email saying they were "very impressed" with my answers but wanted to do one more written test before scheduling an interview.
The second test asked very broad questions about three different user scenarios (what does the current system do/not do, how and why should it be changed, what other features could be affected by these changes, what business decisions need to be made, etc.). I put a lot of thought into my responses and tried to show my reasoning: e.g., I don't know the specifics of their production process or technical infrastructure, but here's what I would suggest based on how I think these might work.
A few days after submitting this, I got a short "we do not have an appropriate position for you at this time" message from a generic HR address. I tried to follow up with the person who had sent me the two tests but never heard back from her.
I don't mind doing the written tests in advance (it seems like a smart hiring practice, imo) but I was disappointed that I didn't get an interview or even a personal follow-up. After putting so much effort into my responses, their casual dismissal seemed rather rude.
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Operations at ModCloth
Posted Jul 5, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Los Angeles, CA (took 3 weeks)
This was a very extensive interview process, where I spoke on the phone twice with the initial recruiter, then at 6am with the a person on the east coast who had an equivalent position, in person with a 3 person panel, then an in person interview with a manager. The actual interview conversations were fairly casual, but the in person ones were almost TOO casual. Everyone was typing away on their laptops, which was distracting, and they all seemed very distracted too.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Recruiter at ModCloth
Posted Jun 24, 2011
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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 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 5 days)
Very direct, young company, still growing, Head of TA reached out to me directly, had a frank conversation with me, wsa very flexible to my interviewing needs (outside of normal office hours) and offer was put out within time frame that was communicated to me.
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Negotiation Details
I didn't have one, it was just a frank conversation during the interview process, so when an offer came out there were no surprises.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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