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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Sokrati (New York, NY) in November 2019.
Interview
Initially an aptitude & psychometric assessment. Then hr contacted for interview rounds. He told me that the interviewer is gonna ask me numericals & guesstimates only but that was not the case.
1st round- I messed up here only. Before the interview i followed up with a ton of guesstimates which were asked in previous interviews & they were pretty simple. First i was asked about myself & then to justify the skills i wrote in my resume in 1 min. Then i was asked mental maths questions. After that i was aaked a probability question based on dices. Then two guesstimates,i did reasonable assumptions but i didnt consider ALL factors according to the interviewer.
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I applied through college or university. The process took 4+ weeks. I interviewed at Sokrati (Vasco Da Gama (India)) in March 2013.
Interview
1) Online Aptitude Test
2) Case Study
We were given a case study of Volvo buses India to prove its cost worthiness for the buyer. I did a SWOT analysis and used a guesstimate. i showed that 30% premium on ticket fares is justified over 200% higher cost of the bus. ( 4-5 days were given)
3) Resume Shortlisting (I don't know why was this necessary here)
4) 4 Personal Interviews ( 2-3 hours for all 4 of them)
1st was about knowledge of analytics, adsense, company's business and related know how.
2nd was about general interview quetions ... weakness, strength, and what did you do about your weakness....question on how you would prioritize your work at office
(you are ceo.. employees fighting ...some plumbing problem....customers unhappy...etc...what will you do?)
3rd was about puzzles.. guesstimates...
4th was about graph & trends.. i was asked to draw a trend in job openings/offers in a year and explain the trend.
Nothing was difficult as such.. All general questions and very simple...I guess I was not prepared since I was completely busy in my thesis even just before the interview...
All this process took around a month or so.... 1st apti ...then after a fortnight shortlisted people were to submit the case study.... after 4-5 days again resume shortlisting was done.... 8-10 days later the interviews were to happen online using google hangout..all on same day.
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I applied online. I interviewed at Sokrati (Pune (India)).
Interview
1st Round - Telephonic Aptitude Interview (Around an hour or so)
2nd Round - Face to face interview with 2 employees
3rd Round - Face to face interview with one of the CEO's (same day)
Please note that even though the position was of a Business Analyst, all the F2F questions I was asked were for a team lead. This might be because of my seniority in front of the other employees which are usually recent graduates (I have 3 years of experience- so not that senior).
Anyways, I thought it was a little unfair to ask me questions about leading a team and marketing domain since I had made clear that this was a new field for me beforehand. Also, I was given no intimation that this job requires managing a team (if you check their website, the BA position nowhere mentions leading a team as description or criteria)
Suggestion- They pride on their very young culture so might want to put you in a senior level immediately (which is definitely a good thing), so please be prepared with leading a team answers if you have a few years of experience.
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Sokrati in March 2015.
Interview
I got a call from the interviewer and she asked me about myself, I answered her. It was a telephonic interview and there was a lot of disturbance so I asked her to call me back and she did after a while and the disturbance was even more. We again began with the interaction and she wanted to know more about my extracurricular activities than my curriculum.Then I was asked why I wanted to join Sokrati and brief on the company if I knew about it. It was casual not so serious so we began with the questions then.
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Sokrati.
Interview
I had applied for this company, after being informed of the vacancy at one of the leading social network sites. I forwarded my resume, and got a call soon after from the HR, who asked all the basic HR stuff, like where you are currently working, what is your role, willingness to relocate, etc.
The date for the next interview was told, and I was clearly told next round will be just basic HR stuff only.
When I did receive the call on the scheduled date, it was a full on technical round, which I had to take from office, as I was told it will only be a basic HR round, which was not supposed to last for more than half an hour. I was given two cases, analysis for which took half an hour each, and explanation took another hour. And this stretched till almost 11 in the night.
For next round, I had asked what to expect, and was told i will be evaluated on Client Management. That round was fairly easy, and managed convincing the interviewer regarding my supposed Client Handling skills, in hypothetical scenarios.
Next, i got called by the HR, stating that i have been selected for the final round of interview, and it has to be face to face, as they apparently were very convinced about my abilities. Despite trying hard to negotiate for a Skype interview, they insisted on conducting it Face to Face, which they repeatedly mentioned was extremely urgent, and had to be done at the earliest, but they were unwilling to pay for the airfare, as apparently, its against their policies. Despite this, i was willing to comply with them, and bear the additional charges for the airfare.
When I reached there on the day of the F2F interview, it was hard to locate the office in the first place, it really was on the highway, and there was nothing nearby, you literally had to walk a long way if you even wanted some basic food. After having found the place, I was greeted by the HR, who only mentioned that she'll get the interviewers ready for me. I was still not told anything about what to expect in the day.
I had two rounds of interview, both testing my client management skills in random hypothetical scenarios, which each lasted 45 mins each, post that they broke for lunch, and I was told to that only a formal HR round remains. After a 2 hour wait, my final round of interview began, and it was another technical round, where in the interviewer came with the sole objective of rejecting me, since he apparently was not even convinced about the role i played in my current company.
So after a 6 hour ordeal, finally my interview ended, and i was told the HR would contact me.
After almost 10 days, i had to call the HR up, to know about the status of my candidature, who apparently had completely forgotten that i had come over for an interview, and after 2 days I again had to follow up with her to know about my candidature.
Shoddy behavior from the company through out, and specially from the HR
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Application
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Sokrati (New Delhi (India)) in June 2015.
Interview
Applied through Referral, Process included 3 rounds : 1st two were telephonic and 3rd round Skype interview. 1st round had puzzles and guesstimates. 2nd round was a little bit random. But was mainly about digital advertising. Final round was general: why sokrati,strengths and weaknesses, what do you see yourself doing in future etc
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Negotiation
The package initially is low, but you have great opportunity for growth in the company. Self Appraisals, and quick promotion will get you to the industry standards in no time
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Sokrati (Pune (India)) in September 2015.
Interview
There were 4 rounds.
1) Tell me about yourself and about sokrati. This was just to check if you have read about the company
I cleared 3 rounsand then the next interview was scheduled.
2) Aptitude questions and guesstimate questions.
3) Case studies and questions on team work and management and guesstimate questions.
4) HR interview.
First 3 were telephonic rounds and then HR was at their office. I cleared the first 3 rounds easily.
HR was also great but unfortunately dint get selected. Their process is too slow and I had read a lot of complains about their process and I faced the same. They did not even give the reason for rejection. Pathetic attitude.
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I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Sokrati.
Interview
Indepth Two rounds of telephonic interview - First Analytical round,Second Case studies round
Analytical - Five or Six Quant questions..purely logic based
Case Studies- Five short case studies;among all of them common challenge was to find the target audience and splitting of advertisement budget between SEO and Good adds
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I applied online. I interviewed at Sokrati.
Interview
5 rounds in the company
6th round telephonic interview
The rounds are as described in the previous reviews
Don't attend the interview as they are anyways not going to give you the offer and they compare themselves with Google and Facebook
As it's more of youngsters here, I dint not even find sense of responsibility in the HR
As casual as they potray themselves to be.
Any excitement of working in a startup
Let go and find another company for yourself.
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The process took 6+ weeks. I interviewed at Sokrati.
Interview
The interview process was horrible. The whole process took more than a month.
Extremely unprofessional conduct!
Not a single round started at the scheduled time and they don't even bother to inform you about the interview being postponed or canceled.
They said interview would include 5 rounds but took 7 rounds instead.
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