I applied online. I interviewed at Buzzbar (London, England) in May 2022
Interview
The interviewer was on time. Short introduction + a couple questions about yourself, experiences. The interviewer was really friendly and explained to me the role in details. I got selected for the second stage.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you keep yourself up to date with the latest trends?
I applied online. I interviewed at Buzzbar (London, England)
Interview
Really disappointed with my experience as a candidate. I applied on LinkedIn with my CV, I was emailed the next day with an invitation to a phone interview (with no details other than 'Tuesday/Wednesday') and a request to answer 3 questions and complete a task. I did as requested, sending across a 4 page document I had spent my Sunday afternoon completing. Tuesday came and I hadn't received anything back about the interview so I emailed asking when it would be - no reply. I emailed again the following Monday - almost a full week after I was told the interview would take place - still no reply. I added the person I was speaking to and the 2 co founders on LinkedIn and messaged them to ask what was happening - no reply. The next day I went on the live chat option on their website - finally a response! The employee on the chat was the only person to respond from the entire company and was genuinely helpful in passing on a message to the hiring manager (they don't seem to have a recruiter or in house hr manager which explains the poor communication but not an excuse to ignore candidates). A few minutes after the live chat I get a message from the hiring manager explaining that their HR system wasn't notifying them of my emails so they had only just seen them.. over a week later. They said they would review my answers and get back to me. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and accepted their excuse. This was 4 days ago and I haven't heard anything, don't know why I bothered to waste time writing out answers and completing a task about their Q4 strategy. Maybe they are just looking for free labour and not actually wanting to hire anyone, seems like a dodgy place with unresponsive, disorganised employees. A lack of respect for candidates and not even bothering to respond to people who have given their time to complete tasks for you is not a good look.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) What does ‘good marketing’ and 'good branding' look like/mean to you?
2) When looking at our company/product, what is the most important thing you think should change? Why?
Task: Give yourself one hour to complete - time yourself:
3) Imagine you have £1000 to spend to get 100 customers through to Buzzbar signing up to the App for a 30 min consultation - what would be your Q4 strategy. How would you do it? Show your working ;)