I went through the entire Junior Graphic Designer interview process only for it to be a complete waste of time.
Started off with a screening call which is fine, pretty basic going though your CV.
You are then invited in for a face-to-face interview with a panel. On the whole this is fine, apart from the fact that you have to trek to their offices in the middle of nowhere and are greeted with a scowl by a person sitting in foyer. Think a depressingly accurate mimic of the UK Office..
One member of the panel spends most of the interview going off on tangents. You are expected to present your portfolio (no prior warning) so make sure you bring with you (as I did on the off-chance).
If the interview goes well then you are asked to do a design interview task over 3/4 days with a hard deadline. The briefing document for this (including the brand guidelines) are full of inconsistencies and discrepancies - adding another red flag to a long list.
Having completed the design task you are informed a few days later that you have wasted weeks of time as, and I quote- "our immediate business needs dictate that the graphic design role had to be redefined, and the skill and experience level required is not suitable to a junior designer."
Quite the revelation to come through having put presumably a number of candidates through a pointless weeks long interview process.
This would have been fine if more detailed interview feedback was offered - a common courtesy you would hope. However, several emails chasing for this are met with radio silence.
Speaks volumes about the "culture" of the place - which was summed up by one employee mentioning "the CEO isn't tight - we get an ice cream van once a month".
Would recommend not to waste your time with interviewing here - no common courtesy shown.
