Movable Ink San Francisco, CA

Application

I applied online. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Movable Ink (San Francisco, CA) in February 2016.

Interview

2 months of ridiculousness, consisting of a phone screen, two separate phone interviews with team members, an in-person with 4 rounds of people, followed with a reference screen, then a follow up full hour of actual training on the product via screenshare by someone in NY, and finally a call back to do an on-site presentation to the team & screen share with a vp in NY, ending with a 5 minute talk with the VP. Presentation was to be on the platform, on not "how well you know it", "or tech" but "how well you can present and field questions, etc". There was actually no technical test or discussion prior, so this is subjective to a shot-in-the dark presentation where they start drilling tech or platform questions on the fly in the last round. Team kept calling me by the WRONG name in the last round which was infuriating, vp called me the wrong name as well, and the office is based out of a WeWork space. Presentation went well, but of course after all this, I was denied "for not knowing tech surrounding the platform". Meaning, you should know above average HTML & CSS coding quite well (or at least say you do, because there was no real skill test, I was just being honest), alongside standard adtech & marketing strategy, even though you will be told "novice HTML" is okay and can be trained in the beginning, do not believe it, and save yourself 2 months with a better company and product worth pursuing. Overall, team was nice enough, process was horrible. Platform is decent, but it will be slowly taken over by bigger competitors, and it is more of a "nice to have" in the marketing mix, but not a necessary tool. A developing company, acting as if they are major player, with a ridiculous interview process that is ultimately not worth the pursuit. Nice enough team, nice recruiter.

Interview Questions