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Updated May 27, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Intern at RAPP
Posted May 28, 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 Mar 2012 (took 1 week)
contacted by HR for internship, easy to schedule interview. laid back environment with lots of opportunities to network within employees from other parent company brands. everyone seemed really friendly and enjoyed what they were doing. interviewed by 3 more senior employees, for 2 positions.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Intern at RAPP
Posted Jun 19, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 (took 2+ weeks)
I interview with three different people all three time I went in. Great people, I felt comfortable and confident.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Management at RAPP
Posted May 5, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2009 in Irving, TX (took 1 week)
My first interview consisted of a random group of people (who I would not wind up working with) asking me specific technical questions that had nothing at all to do with the job. By the end of the interview, the group admitted that none of them knew what kind of position I was applying for. This didn't seem to bother them, particularly. My second interview consisted of several sessions, two with people who would be reporting to me in the position. These two were basically complaint sessions where I just listened to them talk about everything they disliked about their job and the company. Another session was with a random employee who asked me generic "how do you work with people" questions and seemed fairly unpleasant.
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Negotiation Details
When I countered their salary offer with my salary requirements, they demanded to see a W2 from my previous employer before they would discuss it. The hiring process was so painfully slow that I didn't negotiate anything else. In the two months following their initial offer, one recruiter quit and another was fired. Nobody picked up their workload, and their phones and voicemail were left active. My frequent calls wound up in voicemail boxes that were unmonitored. At six weeks, I wasn't sure whether the job would actually materialize, but through the company switchboard I was able to follow up with the hiring manager who assured me that the hiring process was moving forward (which, for the majority of the time, it wasn't because HR had totally forgotten about the offer they extended to me).
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Supervisor at RAPP
Posted Jan 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 Nov 2010 (took 2 days)
Outside recruiter with great follow up and accommodating Human resource staff to make things easy for the candidate. Though with a few cancellations due to impromptu meetings, the team was still very eager to meet and go through the positions. Outside recruiter with great follow up and accommodating Human resource staff to make things easy for the candidate. Though with a few cancellations due to impromptu meetings, the team was still very eager to meet and go through the positions.
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Fair
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Vice President, Analytics at RAPP
Posted Dec 25, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 4+ weeks)
Met with Senior leadership. Interviewed by seven including the managing director. Very conversational. People were very pleasant. Unfortunately it took over 30 days to receive an offer despite verbal commitment from hiring manager.
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Negotiation Details
My recruiter managed everything. I was paid well. No bonus or relo was provided but I think this would have been acceptable.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Account Planner at RAPP
Posted Nov 27, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Nov 2009 in New York, NY (took 3+ weeks)
RAPP came to my college to recruit, they brought an alum as well as the VP of hiring services. Initially they asked us to come with a presentation prepared about a brand that we had worked on. After this presentation, they asked me some questions about the brands that I had done work with and some technical aspects of the job.
Post this, I had 2 phone interviews with senior management - one VP and another Director. The HR person was great at keeping me in the loop, however, as soon as these 2 interviews were over, she fell off the planet and refused to keep in touch with me. I had no idea what had happened, if the job was still on the plate or not. A month later I let it go.
The experience was largely a negative one for me, since all the interviews went well, however HR didnt keep me in the loop about their plans. Additionally, they didnt give me any idea about how long the process would be, the number and kind of people involved, or any steps in the selection process.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.
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Planning at RAPP
Posted Aug 21, 2010
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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 Jul 2010 (took 2 weeks)
Seems like you're expected to interview for lots of people. You start with the big boss and then kind of work your way down. It's difficult to know who the real decision-maker is, or if it's a combination of impressions. Everyone was very friendly, but they seemed a bit distracted, like they really didn't have time the to spend. That made it a bit stressful.
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Senior Information Architect at RAPP
Posted May 26, 2010
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in Irving, TX (took 4+ weeks)
I have to say that Rapp isn't geared towards online media. This was repeated during the interviews. I came across as someone who had many years experience working with other ad agencies and this is not what they 'really' wanted. They have their own ways of doing things at the Irving office. User-experience is not exactly a great career ladder at Rapp as was seen that the UX director who had initially phone screened had left the company before I even got a chance to interview.
The interview consisted of an account manager who had 'her own idea' as to how the user-experience architect should work on. Outdated processes, unrealistic expectations was pretty much status quo from everything she was talking about. That's the problem with ad agencies... lots of ego, little real world experience.
The Creative Director was cool and told me I'd be running into problems with the creative team if I hired on as an IA, as they rarely saw eye to eye with the UX team.
So if you really want a career where your going to have to fight for your existence every day in an ad agency more geared towards junk mail than website creative work, feel free to take the job. I wouldn't be happy there.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Brand Planner at RAPP
Posted May 24, 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 Apr 2009 (took a day)
Two half hour interviews with two different managers
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Brand Manager at RAPP
Posted Mar 20, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2008 in Mumbai (India) (took 1+ week)
First the consultant called me and describe about my roll and expectations towards this new company. Post which i had a telecom with the HR manager from that company explaining him about my present roll in the company, my responsibility and why do i want to change. Once the HR manager was satisfied i was to be interviewed by the VP of that Branch. My main aim was to understand the that person who would be interviewing me. As the post which i had applied for was what i expect and would be able to handle the roll and responsibility as per the JD given so i was not so much tensed about the Job responsibility but the person who would be interviewing me. And then talk in tone and in tune with that persons attitude and nature.
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Reason for Declining
They were giving me some other designation with pay pack less than what i was earning at that time
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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