I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Miro (Amsterdam) in Mar 2024
Interview
I applied for the position through a referral. After that, I had a screening call with the recruiter, followed by a second interview with the design manager to discuss my experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What is your design process.
2. Have you had disagreements with your team, what happened and how did you handle it.
3. Overall experiences in projects.
4. Normal questions about you career goals, interests.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Miro (Amsterdam) in Jul 2024
Interview
In total it 7 stages. Screening, Portfolio presentation and discussion with head of design. Then we have portfolio deep dive, App Critique session and problem solving. Finally we have cross functional discussion and stakeholder management as final discussion. It's a lengthy process but I must admit that I very much enjoyed each individual step. My favorite one was the app critique session.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Miro?
How do you handle conflicts in workplace?
What are the reasons that you wouldn't join an organisation?
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Miro (Berlin) in May 2023
Interview
The interview process was well structured, and the recruiter was supportive throughout the process. The first few rounds were very clear - motivation and skills assessment, portfolio walkthrough, whiteboard challenge sort of exercise, and cross-team collaboration assessment. Towards the later rounds, it got more blurry, and the company's response time slowed down significantly. When it came down to executive rounds, the questions that were asked were more general and didn't give space to shine or address the team's concerns. The interviewer made some assumptions based on what was not said (not asked) in the interview and answered my questions mostly with - that's up to you as a senior designer to figure - not helping with understanding what to expect from the role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you manage working on several projects simultaneously; how do you prioritize your time? What's an environment in which you would thrive? What are some conflicts that you might have with product managers? Can you share an example of a tough situation/conflict and how you overcame it? How do you work with data to reach a solution? How do you feel about designing icons? How do you collaborate with devs and PMs?
