I applied in-person. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Lightspeed (Montreal, QC) in Jan 2016
Interview
The interview process was long...
I was first in contact for a phone interview with an HR person, it was mostly a very friendly conversation and I felt a good vibe. I have to say that I participated in an event where I was able to meet my interviewers.
Afterwards, I got my first in-person interview with the team of sales engineer. It was a very different interview from a technical point of view. I was being thrown with un-familiar questions, but it was an interesting experience. It was actually very human and unique, I guess they tried to figure out my personnality in every depth...
Once this interview was done. I was contacted again to present a sales pitch about lightspeed products. They gave me a scenario and I was on my own. I prepared for a week and read practically every bit informations in that timeframe. I made a powerpoint presentation.
The big day, I had to pitch to again some of the sales engineer and some management. I was nervous, because it was actually my first time doing this kind of stuff... It felt good, but I knew I lacked confidence, the pressure to impress too much made me doubt. They followed with more questions related to case scenario with clients, I was answering them with generalize response (due to my lack of experience). They were looking for my personnality type and I failed this interview.
It was worth the try I learned a lot from this. And the main interviewers gave me feedback afterwards and told me to try again. They were looking for someone more experienced / senior than me. I'm hungry and I know I'll get there.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Lightspeed (Montreal, QC) in Sep 2015
Interview
The interview process was thorough and professional. The phone screening was followed by an in person interview with 2 HR employees. I was very surprised however, given the initial professionalism and friendliness of the 2 ladies interviewing me that following the 2 interviews (phone and in person) that there was absolutely no follow up. I found this to be extremely unprofessional and a large oversight on their end to provide no feedback as to why I was not retained. Given my excellent first impressions, the HR team dropped the bomb on this one. Definitely a bad move that left a bitter taste in my mouth.
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Question 1
Behavioural questions, in depth look at CV and experience, overall professional interview where I felt that i demonstrated myself
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Lightspeed (Montreal, QC) in Sep 2015
Interview
I had a phone interview which lasted about 20 minutes. I had said I was available on several days but hadn't scheduled a specific time, so when the call came I was a bit surprised. For that reason, I wasn't as prepared as I could have been. I never heard back after that.