I applied online. I interviewed at Uline (Pleasant Prairie, WI) in Mar 2025
Interview
The interview process was relatively straight forward. After applying online for what I believed was an opportunity in Glenview, IL as I line in a NW suburb of Chicago once spoke to the recruiter I learned that the opportunity would be in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin which is over 40 miles away from Glenview, IL. In any event, the recruiter I interviewed with was nice and I went to the next round even though I leaned towards not accepting the role. After searing Glassdoor and various other places I learned more alarming things about ULine that cemented that I would NEVER work at this company. A few things I learned for one is that the Uihlein owners were clearly very old school and ran the company with mandated attire for men and women (zero exceptions), For men there was a mandate for all men to wear a dress shirt and tie daily, women had to wear dresses at a certain length , there were zero exceptions ever on working from home (even in blizzard conditions) and it doesn't stop there. The Uihlein's were heavy on politics and not only to new employees receive some type of GOP handbook along with other standard boarding material. What ever happened to keeping politics out of the workplace as I could care less? I also read that an employee stated that the Uihlein's polled their employees regarding who they were voting for in the last US election. I'm taking the time to write this detailed interview to bring awareness.
Continuing on as part of the initial interview process I was asked to take 3 separate assessments (roughly a half hour each). For the next and final round of the interview process I was invited to come to their headquarters in Pleasant Prarire, WI and interview with an HR Business Partner, an HR Resource Manager and a Director of Application Development. This is all pretty standard but prior to my interviews with those individuals I was requested to arrive 20 minutes early to take additional rounds of on-site assessments that were pretty much based on logic oddly. As I said extremely old school and beyond overboard. To each his own but this definitely was not the job for me. Do you research if you question anything I've shared this review.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The HR representative asked about behavior related manager questions.
The Director of App Dev asked about my background and the size of teams I managed, She also asked if I had experience in working with Microservices and external vendors.