I applied online. I interviewed at Indeed (Toronto, ON) in Jul 2022
Interview
I interview through the hiring event. My interviewer was rather rigid. Asked “when was a time” questions almost all through. At the end of the interview, I asked if I will receive feedback if I did or did not scale through. Interviewer said I will get feedback in 2 weeks. It’s three weeks plus and there hasn’t been any feedback. Very sad coming from indeed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When was a time you were challenged?
When was a time you had conflict with your coworker and how did you resolve it?
What was the last thing you learnt that can help in this role?
Why do you want to work for indeed?
Indeed interview process is extensive you have about five interviews with different people, lasting about an hour a piece. The people interviewing are from different departments within the company. The last part is a role play and I think that was the most exciting part of the interview.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Indeed in Jun 2022
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me and suggested I interview for a domain-specific position. Continued with an interview with a hiring manager -- great intro about the team, organization and company, along with a very short discussion on the particular domain vision etc. The recruiter requested my availability for the next interviews and then have not responded for a week. I reached again later -- and then they responded. Next, I was supposed to have a technical leadership interview followed by the stats/math interview. Instead of the technical leadership interview I got scheduled into a technical IC coding interview: I asked my interviewer that we are in the right meeting who confirmed that this is a technical leadership interview indeed (no pun intended). Funny enough, when I asked how the subject of this technical connects to the duties of a data science manager, he said: 'oh they don't do any of that' -- still he was certain I was in the right space. This part included a couple probability questions, one and half easy Leetcode problem and a few easy machine learning questions. What could be better than an impromptu LC interview! Again, I was not supposed to have this interview but because of the recruiter/coordinator mistake was interviewed for this. Next was a statistics/math interview with very theoretical textbook-based questions on linear regression and probability and one more application-focused question on A/B testing. After that the recruiter reached out with an apology confirming that I was scheduled a wrong interview. I ended up doing a technical leadership interview a few weeks later since the communication with recruiter was very slow again (no timelines provided). Two weeks after the interview a recruiter called me (it took them one week to respond to their own original message requesting a call) to inform me that my leadership skills are not sufficient for this role.
Through this experience of this wrong interview, the polite but disinterested interviewers (not interested enough even to double-check if we are doing a right interview and save everyone's time),the generic interview topics that have nothing to do with the specific domain that the role is in, and not engaged and transparent recruiting I learned enough about Indeed not to recommend it as a company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For technical leadership (DSM)
How did you become a people manager?
Describe your management style?
Do we even need people managers?
How do you organize 1:1?
How do you do performance reviews?
How do you manage low-performers?
How do you work cross-functionally?
Do you have any experience hiring people outside of your team?
What kind of feedback your former team would have provided to you?