Applied over the internet and had a phone interview a few weeks later. Having used the company's products over many years, I was excited to learn more about them and this position in particular. After the interview was over, however, I was left with an extremely negative impression of their hiring processes and of the company itself. The interviewer was disorganized and unprepared, and halfway through the interview she realized that she hadn't bothered to clarify which position she was interviewing me for--and then she mentioned another position that I hadn't applied for. To make things worse, the job description she gave me halfway through the interview was only tangentially related to the posted position I'd applied for. The majority of her questions were unrelated either to my past experience or to the job position. The interview would have been a complete waste of my time except, I suppose, for the practice answering the standard "tell me about yourself" and "why do you want to work here" questions. Oh! And the brain teasers. When I said that I'd read about the jelly bean one online, the interviewer spent a good five minutes trying to figure out another one to ask me. I could hear frantic keyboarding and paper shuffling in the background, so I was prepared for something tricky, but then it was just the rope bridge teaser that I'd also seen online. All in all, an extremely unproductive process that seems unlikely to result in well-matched hires for the company. Whatever their decision regarding my application may be, I have no desire to move forward with this company.

Submitted my application and received an email about 2 weeks later from a recruiter about setting up an introductory interview over the phone. Interview was fine. I basically read my resume and they read the job description. At the end, the recruiter told me they would like to move forward and would send me an assessment to complete in 1 week. The assessment required me to edit, review, and create some Spanish content questions. I spent a day (about 5-6 hours) completing and reviewing the assignment. I got an email a week later that they decided not to move forward with no other feedback or info. I was weary of putting in that much work before even an actual interview, but I loved the job description so I did it anyways. I wish I would have listened to the reviews and not spent almost 10 hours on this job (application, 600 word cover letter, phone interview, and assessment).