Gensler interview questions

All the designers I met during the interview are very nice and friendly, feel like a great team to work with. Office has around 50 people and is on a fully onsite work schedule.

Worst interview during my job search. Started with discussing my interests, experience and strengths in detail with recruitment staff. Great—super helpful and promising. Then an email telling me who I’d be interviewing with (workplace lead, managing director, etc). Come the day of the interview managing director introduces herself and mentions that she looked over my portfolio (probably for 5 min max) and decided that I do not do workplace projects, ignored the judgement of their HR staff (this was immediately a huge red flag for me) and invited the hospitality team. I do not do hospitality and have no interest in it. My portfolio was full of workplace projects. But they were slightly unusual, boundary pushing projects, not the corporate cookie cutter spaces pushed by Gensler—maybe that was her mistake? Anyway, the interview also went horribly because they could not understand that I was interested in the *whole* process and not just one tiny siloed corner. Difficulty was only average because it was so frustrating—otherwise it was easy.