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Updated Apr 12, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Campus Organizer at U.S. PIRG
Posted Apr 12, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in Washington, DC (took 2 weeks)
First was a phone interview with a fellow from Chicago, lasted about, 30 minutes give or take. Then he scheduled an interview for the following week. Went to the 1 on 1 interview, lasted about 1 hour in which she asked questions related to issues and campaign tactics. Main policy issue covered was smoking (tobacco) and to design a campaign around that.
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Reason for Declining
The pay was incredibly low for the hours asked to work. 50-80 hours a week for 22k? No thank you, unless you are excessively passionate about these policies, and/or have another well paying job.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Community Organizer at U.S. PIRG
Posted Apr 7, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 (took 5 weeks)
I was very impressed with US PIRG during the application process. I completed an online application and was contacted shortly thereafter for the initial phone interview. By the end of the phone interview, I was told that I should expect to be invited to the second round of interviewing, which in my case was done over Skype. The skype/second interview consisted of more thought-provoking questions and tested my ability to understand and reason through a campaign. It took a while to hear back after the second interview, but several weeks later I was invited to have a 1:1 interview. Again, the US PIRG staff was wonderful - everyone seemed very passionate about what they do.
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Reason for Declining
The reason I didn't accept the job came down to the admission by 2 of the interviewers that the general work week was between 60-80 hrs. I didn't think I could make that kind of work commitment.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Issue Advocate at U.S. PIRG
Posted Jan 13, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Washington, DC (took 4 weeks)
A week after submitting a resume there was a hiring questionaire sent by email to answer. That form consisted of 8 questions requiring from 1 to 4 sentence answers. After submitting the answers, I had to go online and schedule an interview. I was sent a confirmation that I would be getting a call on the day and time I requested.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Fellow at U.S. PIRG
Posted Jan 6, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 (took 2 days)
Got the interview through my college. Started off with a one on one interview. This basically consisted of your basic behavioral questions such as why you wanna work for PIRG, what do you take pride in, blah blah. Once you get accepted to that you go onto a group interview at their office (I had mine in D.C.). The group interview lasts a really long time and honestly my interest in them diminished during that interview.
The people were very odd, the senior U.S. PIRG fellow was quite rude and full of himself. Additionally, the pay is quite horrible and the weekly hours are ungodly. If you really really care about public interest then go for it, but for everyone else... stay away.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Campaign Fellowship at U.S. PIRG
Posted Sep 20, 2010
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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 Jun 2010 in Philadelphia, PA (took 2 weeks)
The phone interview was fine. Not too in depth questions, basically just character questions. The in person interview was a different story. The man was rude and the questions were all very specific case questions. The atmosphere was VERY grassroots, and the office did not make the organization look very established.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Fellow at U.S. PIRG
Posted Aug 22, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 (took 3 weeks)
They were at a career fair on campus, and scheduled an interview with me for the next day. The person who interviewed me was enthusiastic and sold me on the group; she asked questions based on my resume and other experiences. She then had me E-mail her a copy of my resume. She responded with in person interview dates. I arranged to be at one in Philadelphia. There were roughly 10 interviewees there, with a number of current job holders. We were broken up into groups for one-on-one interviews with job holders and upper management, canvassing exercises, and brainstorming exercises.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.
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