Imagine Learning interview questions

I had applied online on their website and submitted them my resume with the application. Shortly after I received an email from a woman in their HR department about setting up a phone interview. The next week I had a phone interview which was more of just setting up a time to go in for an interview and also to ask her any questions if I had any. I went in for about a 45 minute interview the next week where it was mostly behavioral questions I was asked by a couple of the senior managers for QA. I got another email from the HR woman just over a week later asking to set up a second interview. This interview was in the same room by two different people in the QA hierarchy. A lot of those questions also seemed to be more of behavioral questions. They had me try and "test" a program that without telling me the purpose or input of the program on a whiteboard so they could see my thought process/steps to try and test something that I knew nothing about. Both interviews were pretty relaxed, and the culture seems to be pretty open and relaxed in the office trying to make you feel comfortable while you work.

The editing and writing test I took for the sales writing department was very thorough. The editing portion contained actual text that could be used in Imagine Learning materials, rather than a standardized editing test. This made the test seem more practical. The editing test included standard copy editing; rewriting sentences for clarity and to eliminate wordiness; and editing a letter. I didn't detect any trickiness in any of the editing portions. The writing portion was more difficult, with four writing tasks to complete. I felt the writing tasks could have used more instruction. For example, one task was to write a summary of a one-page article but you aren't told who the target audience is. Other tasks were to write text for an advertisement; write a summary of the company that met certain criteria; and change prose to step-by-step instructions. I was given two hours to complete the test but was told if it took a bit longer that was OK (I took an extra 15 minutes). With the editing and writing, it was quite a bit to get done in two hours. Definitely a good test of how quickly and accurately you work. This was followed by an in-person interview a few days later, where I talked with three people from the sales writing department and someone from marketing. The questions were more positive, designed to see what kind of person you were and how you worked. Very few negative questions (i.e., what do you do when you don't get along with someone in the office). I enjoyed talking with everyone.