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Updated May 27, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Content Writer at Zywave
Posted May 27, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in Milwaukee, WI (took 3+ weeks)
Found the job on careerbuilder.com. Applied, heard back the next day from a recruiter saying they liked my resume and wanted me to take an online IQ/personality test. Took it that day (took approx. 1.5 hours), and heard back within a day or two from a different recruiter who said she wanted to set up a phone interview.
Did the phone interview the next day. It was filled with general questions probably aimed at seeing how good of a communicator I was. There were no technical questions or questions specific to the position.
Heard back shortly after the phone interview to set up a 1:1 interview with my would-be boss. Before the 1:1 interview, they had me retake the IQ/personality test at the office, presumably to make sure I wasn't cheating at home when I took it. I have heard there is an 18% pass rate with the test, so it's not very easy. 1:1 interview went pretty well (about an hour). Was then told I would hear back from a recruiter within a week.
I didn't hear anything back from the recruiter the following week, so I called her up and she said my would-be boss was actually out of the office that entire week. No problem. Heard back from the recruiter shortly after and she wanted to set up a second interview.
Second interview was with boss' boss and lasted about 45 minutes. Didn't go nearly as well as I hoped it would - interviewer wasn't very receptive to what I was saying. Was told I would hear back soon about the job, but I didn't get my hopes up.
Didn't hear back from Zywave for at least a week and a half. Finally called the recruiter to ask where the company was in the hiring process, and she said decisions were still being made.
Finally heard back from the recruiter the next week and she offered me the job. Turns out Zywave was in the process of hiring about 30 new people, hence the long waits in between interviews. Quite frankly, I was very surprised they offered me the job, but I couldn't accept the job fast enough.
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Negotiation Details
Was not able to negotiate.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Technical Writer at Zywave
Posted May 15, 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 May 2012 (took 3 weeks)
The interview process was incredibly protracted, and when I retook the reasoning test and the scores between the two tests didn't match (this whole process required three hours just for the assessments), they didn't even give me an interview. So, I wasted an afternoon of work going to their office only to have them brush me aside - incredibly, I wasn't qualified for a writing position because of math skills.
Adding insult to injury, the recruiters felt it appropriate to patronize me; after informing me that they wouldn't even conduct the interview they asked, "how I felt about that."
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Entry Level Software Developer at Zywave
Posted May 7, 2012
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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 2012 in Milwaukee, WI (took 2 weeks)
I applied through a website, which was followed by two phone interviews from human resources and one technical interview. The technical interview involved questions about basic OOP concepts. If you are familiar with data structures, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, and pointers, you should be good. The length of the interview process was more due to my class schedule than them dragging their feet. Possibly the best interview process I've ever encountered.
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Negotiation Details
There wasn't much negotiation. They made me an offer that was considerably more than I was looking to make starting out, plus the opportunity to earn bonuses.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Associate Software Engineer at Zywave
Posted May 1, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in Milwaukee, WI (took a day)
My experience with Zywave has so far been extremely positive. Their employees are all very friendly and welcoming. They move quickly at their company and recognize talent when they see it.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Content Writer at Zywave
Posted Apr 26, 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 Apr 2012 (took 2 weeks)
Pretty detailed process. Overall a positive experience. Process consisted of a brief phone interview, taking an online aptitude and personality assessment, a face to face interview in which a portion of the online assessment was retaken, and then a second face to face interview. To their credit, they moved quickly in and out of the steps in the process and did a good job of communicating during the process.
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Other Details
I Applied Online.
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Technical Writer at Zywave
Posted Apr 2, 2012
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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 Mar 2012 in Milwaukee, WI (took 5 days)
I applied to the position over the weekend and by Monday I received an email saying they were very interested in talking with me. However, I needed to take a 2-hour test. I responded to the email and received the test link and instructions that same day. The test was about six or eight different sections and was very difficult. The main test page said you need to take it for ANY position within the company.
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K J H I Q
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The interview consisted of an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Product Specialist at Zywave
Posted Mar 9, 2012 — 1 of 1 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 Mar 2012 (took 2 weeks)
Applied for the job posted on website. Got an email back with in a day saying they like what they saw in my resume and that if i wanted to continue the process I would need to reply back to the email willing to take an IQ/Intelligence Test within the next 5 days. It took the person 4 days to get back to me with the information on how to take the test. I took 3 hours off work to go home and log in to take the 2 hour test. The test consisted of 8 parts from what comes next in a squinece of letters to difficult math questions. I get they want the best people but the test really made me not feel good about the company. I finished the test in around 2 hours. Two days later get an email saying thanks for your time but due to your response we are looking at other canidates.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Account Executive at Zywave
Posted Dec 9, 2011
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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 Nov 2011 (took 2 weeks)
Pretty tough IQ test plus personality test. The interview was pretty hard.. I let myself get thrown off by some of the questions. Mostly my fault, but it also just seemed like they already had their candidate picked. Seems like a great company to work for.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Engineering at Zywave
Posted Nov 14, 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 Jan 2011 (took a day)
The interview was quick. General HR questions were asked, such as, why do you want to work here, what are your long term plans, what are your strengths and weaknesses. Nothing really stood out as a company and their growth opportunities
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Account Executive at Zywave
Posted Jul 20, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Jul 2011 in Milwaukee, WI (took 3 weeks)
Recruiter seemed very interested. Took the IQ test, (which took 2.5 hours at home that was unpaid). Got an email from the recruiter - advised they found a candidate with a stronger backround. I emailed back to ask what I could do differently, or any addtional information.... never got response.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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