Initial phone interview with behavioral questions and on-site interview with behavioral/technical questions where I was asked questions mainly focused on my resume. I also had to give a presentation to the team because of my PhD degree.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Procter & Gamble (Cincinnati, OH) in Jun 2020
Interview
I applied on a Saturday, took an online assessment on a Sunday, and was rejected by Wednesday morning.
My resume has a wealth of experience in some areas and a bit of a lack in others. I'd say I was a 50-50 going in. I was looking forward to engaging with a recruiter or a hiring manager on my relative strengths and weaknesses and letting them decide whether to take a chance on me that I'd be able to ramp up in my weaker areas and that my strengths, in the meantime, would be an asset to the team, or not. Again, 50-50, and I would've been fine with the process if P&G had decided to go with someone maybe with a more well-rounded or plug-and-play background.
Instead, because I couldn't remember where some arbitrarily lit up balls were on a screen, I have now been forbidden from applying to any P&G jobs for the next year.
I feel like I dodged a bullet. If that is how P&G makes its important personnel decisions, I'm glad I'm out. (What's next, bonus based on who bakes the best or who has the tallest kid?)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Remember where these dots were on your computer screen with a series of other, distractions in between...
I applied online. I interviewed at Procter & Gamble
Interview
Surprisingly, the final interview was all about behavioral questions. After many rounds of online assessment and personal interviews, they still tried to ask behavioral questions at the final interview. There are no technical questions at all. So, it would be a big bias against tech people like me, who have good knowledge and skills. Without any standardized answer, it is somehow left to the interviewer to decide who is better qualified. I passed many peak assessments and interviews at P&G in the past. So, I am not that bad at all for behavior questions. Unfortunately, I still got rejected for this data scientist job. Speaking of truth, I am going to start a Facebook machine learning internship soon. So, I thought that I should be qualified for this kind of job. I applied and went through the whole process, got rejected on non-tech questions... This makes me wonder whether it would be a waste of time applying for any IT at P&G in the future.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a case when you lead a project. Describe how you will handle a case when you have a good ideal, but a group of people oppose it.