The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at PlayStation (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2017
Interview
After applying for this job, I had to deal with the most unprofessional and unorganized recruiter I’ve ever seen. Here’s some of the things she did:
- She asked me for phone availability and never got back to me until after a week
- Any email to her required at least two follow up emails
- She scheduled the first call with the hiring manager instead of herself. Hiring manager was surprised that no recruiter had talked to me first
- She canceled the on-site interview less than 24 hours before and offered to re-schedule “if I’m still interested”!
- On the interview day she just said hi and then and left the office
- She did not get back to me after the On-site and did not reply to my follow up emails two weeks after. Not even a generic rejection email was sent. Since the interview was good and panel seemed happy, I was expecting some kind of closure on the result as I didn’t know if I was rejected or it was just her laziness... So I finally called her and only then I realized that I was not accepted. She promised that she would send me a detailed feedback but that never happened too.
Although I was interested in the job and the company, all in all, I had the worst interview experience in past 20 years.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Not many questions. They asked for a presentation which took me 3 days to prepare
There are 4 rounds of interviews in total. One with the recruiter. One with the hiring manager. Three on-site interviews with a senior PM, senior designer, program manager and engineer.
The interview process was friendly and professional. Few steps with onboarding session and a meeting with relevant experts. Although the outcome was negative, feedback came quickly and included helpful, relevant links for further learning and self-improvement.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did you manage situations with underperforming specialist?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at PlayStation
Interview
I had 5 separate interviews to get this job, with a 2 week wait in between. The interviews were very informal and simple, i did have to chase the internal recruiter often to get feedback or to know whats next