Greenhouse Software Interview Questions

Great interview process it was great to feel included and it was an impressive interview plan which allowed me to showcase all of my individual skills. It was such a comfortable environment and can't thank the Greenhouse team enough/

Demoralizing, exhausting interview process. Made me go through 5 interviews and a take home assessment, felt like each of the conversations were great, and even had to interview with the hiring manager again after already speaking with the manager for an hour. They already knew everything about me but they still stretched out the number of interviews to string me along for no reason. All this just for them to give me a generic email saying that I didn’t have the “required communication skills” even though I throughly emphasized this throughout the interview process. If you don’t want to advance with a candidate, do them a favor and don’t waste their time with so many interviews and lead them on just to reject them.

Slow, poor, and an extremely unprofessional experience. Read below: 1) Phone screen with HR to discuss the role and the compensation. 2) A few days later, a phone interview with the hiring manager. 3) Take home assignment, which took 3-4 hours. 4) After I submitted the assignment, they disappeared for 3 weeks. 5) Got an email after 3 weeks saying we would like to move forward, and there will be a 2.5 hrs long interview session. I gladly submitted my availability. The email I got had only 1.5 hrs of interviews. I was super confused, but OK. 6) The interviews were short, met 4 people during 2-30min sessions. Now, here's the part you should read very carefully before applying here: 1) After a month long process of 4 interviews and a take home assignment, the recruiters calls me to tell me that the compensation he mentioned initially during the phone screen was WRONG and their budget is not even close to it. The fact that they waited 30 days to let me know this is just POOR. 2) The hiring manager, after the first phone screen, decided to go on a sabbatical in the middle of the process. I was told about this 30 days into the process when they told me about the compensation mishap. 3) Not a single person discussed the take-home assignment. Hope it was not used for their own benefit to perform analysis. 4) They mentioned that the hiring manager will be back after 2 more weeks, which would make this a 6 week long process. 5) 3 days later, I got an email saying they decided to move forward with another candidate because they showed better "cross- functional communication strategies." Pretty ironic how a company that couldn't even communicate the compensation properly within their teams is telling me I couldn't impress them with my cross-functional communication strategies. I have interviewed at many companies, but this was by far THE WORST EXPERIENCE.

Everyone was very nice, but the process took too long only for them to tell me they wanted someone with more years experience. Something you could've seen on my resume.

Received a prescreen call from the in house TA. Had a very casual comfortable discussion about the open role in more detail. Progressed to having a call with the head of the team for the role. Overall experience was very smooth and enjoyable.

Overall the interview was a good experience, and the recruiting team was very professional, although it was not the right role for me. The technical assessment was very easy, and the entire interview process was entirely based on "tell me about a time..." questions therefore making me conclude that the selection process was political rather than based on technical skills. I will mention though that based on my interactions it doesn't seem like they have the right eye for picking out talent, which is a little concerning considering that this is what their software is trying to sell.

Screening call followed by interview with Head of Design. The interview was challenging because some of the questions had multiple parts to it - it was hard to keep track of what I needed to answer at times.

In one word: confusing. (i) 4 out of the 5 people I met with are white. Yet I was asked if inclusion & diversity is important to me because it is super important to Greenhouse. (ii) Early on during conversations, no weekends would be involved. Later on that ended up being “revised” to “rare/occasional weekends." (iii) After asking how direct would contact with customers be, I was told that Account Managers help. Later on the hiring manager “clarified” that there is direct, constant customer contact, including weekly calls for a specific type of project. (iv) I specifically asked early on if the job had to track time somehow, and was told that it didn't. Then, turned out the position submits weekly timesheets. (v) Mid-process, an additional step was created for me to meet the VP if selected for that “next step”. Everyone was incredibly nice, friendly and relaxed. The great work the teams does shows on G2 rankings. They absolutely made the correct call by not extending an offer because there was indeed lack of fit. As a company that develops tech *for recruiting* though, I was expecting a very different experience.

Incredibly organized - everyone was very nice Steps: 1. Recruiter phone screen 2. Hiring manager phone screen 3. Take home assignment 4. Video calls with the manager and other colleagues (met with 7 people total) - 3.5 hours total Did not receive an offer in the end, but it was still a very good experience overall

The interview process was seamless and informational. I had a few minor hiccups on the phone screen but overall I was given additional advice on how to get better during my phone screen interview.