Ik heb online gesolliciteerd. De procedure duurde 7 weken. Ik heb gesolliciteerd bij IXL Learning in okt 2013
Sollicitatiegesprek
Applied online via their website, heard back from recruiting about 3 1/2 weeks later and arranged a phone interview that took place a week afterward.
The phone interview was with a Product Manager, and lasted around 30 minutes. The first part of the interview consisted of standard interview questions (why do you want to work here, why do your qualifications fit the position).
The second part consisted of questions meant to test your abilities in logic and explanation. See the question below for the former. The latter was an impromptu lecture at an elementary/middle school level on a scientific topic of your choice.
After the interview, I was given one week to complete an assignment representative of the type of work a product analyst would do - writing age-appropriate explanations for questions and creating an abstract high-level design for a "problem generator" program. (The program generator is IXL's method of procedurally generating a large number of questions testing the same concept).
After completing the assignment, I was informed that I would not be moving on in the interview process.
Sollicitatievragen [1]
Vraag 1
Brain teaser:
There are 3 jars full of yellow jellybeans. One jar is lemon, one jar is banana, and one is a mixture. The only way to differentiate between the two flavors would be to taste one.
They are initially labeled correctly, but someone goes and switches the labels such that they are all wrong. How many jellybeans will you have to eat to determine which jar is which?
Ik heb via een werknemersdoorverwijzing gesolliciteerd.
De procedure duurde 8 weken.
Sollicitatiegesprek
Process took ~8 weeks in total. Applied through Jobvite, had reference from a current Product Analyst. Got phone interview, no unexpected questions, similar to those described in other Glassdoor reviews, complete with jelly bean brain teaser. Was given job test, which I spent the full week on. Was called in to on-site interview - 3 hours, 3 different people, all very nice and asked fair questions about my background, teaching experience and how I would generate questions for the problem generators. Pretty exhausting though. Was then called into a second on-site interview to meet the other Science Product Analysts and had another interview with the heads of the team. After a few days, was sent email expressing that I was "not a match". I was utterly baffled by this decision, as I'm well qualified for this position, every interview had gone well, and they had expressed several times that they were "very impressed" by my performance. No clue what they're looking for.
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Most difficult question was second brain teaser asked at on-site interview.
Ik heb via een hogeschool of universiteit gesolliciteerd. Ik heb gesolliciteerd bij IXL Learning (Los Angeles, CA) in okt 2014
Sollicitatiegesprek
Interviewed during campus recruiting. Interview only lasted 30 minutes and seemed rushed. Recruiters were very friendly and kind but Interviewer was awkward and inexperienced. I wasn't surprised by the question content but thrown off by how uninterested the interviewer appeared.
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Demonstrate how you would teach a science concept of your choice to a third grader.
Ik heb online gesolliciteerd. De procedure duurde 4 weken. Ik heb gesolliciteerd bij IXL Learning (Foster City, CA) in jun 2014
Sollicitatiegesprek
I applied to the Product Analyst position online without knowing anyone at the company and got notification that I'd be having a phone interview within about a week of my application.
The phone interview had all the standard questions (Why IXL?, etc) in addition to a brain teaser. I was also asked to describe my PhD research as I would to a kid in 4th Grade. I was notified at the end of the phone call that I'd be advancing to the next round, the skills test.
They emailed me the skills test with a few questions for me to answer at home over the space of a week. The questions were, apparently, a fairly good representation of the type of work you'd be doing for the company in this position. I did my best but was a little unsure about how I'd done, but it must have been good enough because within a few days I was notified that I would be advancing to the on-site interview round.
The onsite interview lasted about 2 hours. I met with 3 different people; a math product analyst, a science product analyst and a director. You are just left in one room the whole time while the interviewers come to you, but they give you some puzzles and reading material about the company to keep you entertained while you're waiting. The two product analysts were very heavy on skills questions, very similar to the take-home skills test but you are expected to answer on the spot. You're given an example of a problem that might appear on the website then asked how you would vary difficulty on this problem, what other types of questions you might ask and how you'd make it more engaging. The director asked more typical interview questions about past conflicts/resolutions at work, why I want to work at that company, what experience makes me the ideal candidate, etc.
In the end, I was left feeling unsure how I'd done but didn't feel like I'd said anything too stupid. I didn't get an offer so I don't have any useful advice about what they may be looking for.