Started off with a simple phone screen that took about 10mins. Basically just wanted to see if you could speak to your experiences and if you generally had a good enough skill set to be moved to the next round. The recruiter moved me to the next round during the phone screen and immediately set up a technical interview for the next week. They give you the case a week before so you can familiarize yourself with it.
During the case interview you walk through the customer acquisition funnel and describe inefficiencies in the funnel while also suggesting improvements to the website architecture. I come from a data analytics background and didnt really know too much about SEO or digital marketing and its still not too bad. I missed one of the mental math problems and struggled on a couple recommendations and thought I bombed it. The next day the recruiter emailed me looking to schedule an onsite interview.(I think they are just looking to see if you can apply some of your skills to the position, not necessary be a savant at web ops during this stage). After I was thankful enough to get another opportunity I studied up, and tried to learn all I could about web ops and red ventures before my next interview.
A week and a half later RV flew me out to Charlotte for the final onsite interview. This process is truly mentally and socially draining, but is still a great process nevertheless. It is composed of a nice dinner the night before with other potential candidates and 3 RV associates (there were 5 people including myself and 4 of them were interviewing for the same position which I thought was odd). The next day you wake up and report to RV HQ at 8 to start the process:
-Campus tour (~45mins)
-directly into an analytical interview (~1hr)
-directly into a behavioral interview (~1hr)
-directly into another analytical interview(~1hr)
-15 min break
-Group excel case(~1hr)
They are thorough if anything. The tour is friendly and you get to see their incredible campus. The two analytical interviews almost mirror your first case interview about the acquisition funnel. The behavioral interview questions were pretty straight forward. You complete the group excel case with 2 or 3 other people then a member of senior management comes to ask the group questions. The extent you have to know about excel is how to do a sum function and how to auto fill... thats it. I spent a week refreshing myself on macros and advanced pivot tables, and you dont have to do anything like that haha. Kind of a weird dynamic because you are pretty much competing for a job with the people who are on your team. The manager grills you on some of your results, but I think he just wants to see how you respond to the tough questions. To finish up the marathon day a recruiter walked me and another interviewee to the front and told us that they would share their decision in a couple of days. The following Tuesday I heard back with the classic rejection email we've all gotten. I thought I did really well during the behavioral interview, and asked great questions (Culture is huge for them so I thought if anything I could potentially have an offer of the table just from that, but quickly had an ego check). My analytical interviews went ok. I thought my thought process was admirable, but I assume that had to be the reason why I didnt get an offer. RV doesnt tell you why they dont extend you an offer due to policy which I guess is fine, but kind of sucks.
Pros of Interview- Getting the opportunity to see there amazing campus and interact with their friendly and intelligent staff.
Cons- by the time you have been interviewing for 4 hours straight and they put you in a room for your 15 min break and give you a water and a small bag of chex mix. I might be knit picking, but I was so hungry I thought it was a joke.