J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Opower (Arlington, VA) en déc. 2013
Entretien
I had 2 standard phone interviews, one with a screener, and one with the hiring manager, which both went well. They asked the standard questions. I went in for the in-person interview and met with 5 different people, one via Skype, including the hiring manager who oddly asked me a lot of the same questions I had already been asked by her on the phone. I was also given a "homework" assignment, designed to gauge my intuition with behavioral economics. The meeting via Skype was awkward due to the video delay and the interviewer was hard to read. The second-to-last interviewer asked some bizarre questions (see below), including making me role play that I had messed up a translation and he was an angry utility that I had to assuage. That was fine, except that it was nowhere in the job description. The interview itself wasn't that bad, but the way they yanked me around afterwards was very disappointing. The interview was on a Monday. They said they'd let me know in 2 days. Then, by Friday. Then, before Xmas. Then, after New Year's (when I still had not heard), I was told someone from their San Francisco office would call me early the following week. On Friday of the next week, I get a call from "Chris" saying he had good and bad news. The bad news, that I didn't get the job. The good news, that another team was interested in me. However, he didn't even know what job they were looking at me for. But I agreed to talk to them the next week, and never heard from anyone the next week. I called Chris at least twice that week, but no one answered and his phone just rang straight through to the main menu -- no voicemail. Finally I'm told another week later that the other team wasn't looking at anyone new until they completed their current round of interviews. The next day, I got a generic email from them saying they would not be pursuing me for the position -- a position I never even applied for.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
"I'm going to leave the room for 3 minutes. When I come back, I want you to give me a 3-minute presentation on the topic of your choice."