Animalz Interview Questions

Confusing interview, unpleasant review process. We wrote a writing sample and got comments back. Overall they seemed disorganized. Wasn’t a positive experience. Didn’t get an offer, didn’t particularly care that I didn’t.

It was shoddy and all over the place. But that's not surprising considering what has happened to the company since. I ended up pulling out because I didn't think I'd be comfortable working there.

It was a pretty straightforward interview process: There was a writing assignment (not too time-consuming, can be completed in a couple of hours if you're experienced) followed by 2 interviews with the team. Offer followed shortly after.

It was mostly good although it drag on for close to two months. At some point, I wasn't sure if they were interested in talking or not. But on the bright side, my interviews went well. My interviewers were attentive, respectful, and friendly.

Longest interview process ever. It took about 2-3 months before I got to the last stage of the interview. There was a lot of back and forth and you could tell their people ops team weren't sure about what they were doing. After 3 months, they finally sent an email saying I qualified for the role but there was no available position for me at their company at the moment. A few weeks after I got this email, someone from the people ops team got on a call with me and made an offer to me. They sent an offer letter and gave me a month before I resumed. However, a few days to when I was to resume, they rescinded the job offer with no compensation.

Interview process was lengthy, including a significant pause in communication that seemed to show some kind of internal disorganization. However, the interviewers were very open with me about salary and benefits, and asked reasonable interview questions. Ultimate reason for turning down was the position was the very low pay compared to hours expected.

I had a good experience interviewing with Animalz, the recruiter was very helpful and I thought my interview with the hiring manager was great. We had a 30-minute interview that kind of established my background skills and what type of work is involved in this position. No second interview and I didn’t receive an offer but would definitely apply with them again in the future, they left a positive impact on me for sure.

Overall, it was an easy process but the process was long and left me hanging for a while in between. There were a number of people I met with on the team that seemed nice, but it was just not a fit. I would recommend getting back to a potential candidate as soon as you know you do not want to move forward with them. It was a confusing process towards the end, and although the team was nice, it did not feel great to be ghosted.

The most bizarre, disrespectful job interview process I've ever gone through. I first applied via Greenhouse and heard back from a recruiter within two days. Thrilled with the speed, I assumed that this was going to be a smooth ride. Little did I know! After my first call with another recruiter, they assigned a non-paid test assignment to submit within THREE DAYS (hold on, you’ll shortly find out why this is in caps). That was a crazy week for me and I had to stay up until 5am to make sure I'd make the deadline—something that I find hilarious now because they took well over a month review it. I then had two other calls with lovely members from the content team who I have no complaints about. The recruiter also asked me for two references and I naturally had to announce to those references that someone will be reaching out to them within the week... and now we were three waiting for an update from Godot. I followed up multiple times over the following two months. The recruiter would take over a week to respond, updating me with generic copy-paste emails that were clearly going out to others (these updates were so basic they might as well have been triggered by a CRM). It’s now been 6 MONTHS and I have officially been ghoooosted. One of the most entertaining parts is this sentence from their first email: “this entire process usually takes between 2 to 3 weeks from start to finish.” If Glassdoor had a meme section, I’d be the first to contribute. I’m genuinely embarassed that I put any effort into this whole shebang. Animalz is now beyond sketchy not only to me, but also to friends, family, and the references who have been following the process—many of which operate in the same industry. Statistically speaking, if you keep doing this with applicants then you’ll pick up a reputation sooner or later. But looking at Glassdoor, it’s pretty clear that the damage has been done and I’m quite surprised Animalz has any clients at all.

Though it started out well, they ghosted me during the process. They ask candidates to create a lengthy test article and promise that you'll get a chance to receive feedback on the piece. These promises were ultimately unfulfilled, leaving me with a sour taste in my mouth.