Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 2 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Oculus VR (Seattle, WA) en ago 2019
Entrevista
Initially ignored the recruiter on LinkedIn while I was on vacation. Reconnected a few months later when I saw roles still open. Phone screen with recruiter to talk about the two jobs and initial fit. Recruiter had me create a sampler deck of my work to pitch to managers internally.
Video chat a week later with one director for one of the jobs. Pretty generic questions and hasty portfolio review. The were definitely looking for someone specific and had a bunch of boilerplate prepared.
Quickly got a no from that team and set up time for the other open position. A week later had back to back 45 min video interviews. One focusing on app critique and discussion of an app you and the interviewer both had downloaded. Second interview was a portfolio review with someone on the team. Pretty straight forward design stuff. Good discussion on both calls. Connected as well as we could have in 45 mins on a video call.
It is 3 weeks now since the last interview and haven’t heard anything back yet. Recruiter went from 24-48 hour turn around on replies to completely ghosting me. Not even a generic, automated email. Absolutely unacceptable by any standards. Shame on you Oculus for your awful hiring practices.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Name one of your strengths and weaknesses. (Yes they actually asked me this.)
Solicité el puesto a través de la recomendación de un empleado. El proceso duró 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Oculus VR en abr 2018
Entrevista
The process is very poorly coordinated. Recruiter will reach out to you to put you on a hiring queue, but won't get back with interview details unless you keep following up. The recruiter also swapped around who's going to do the phone interview. When the actual call happened, the interviewer was 10 minutes late to a 30 minute call, and kept saying she has to go and cutting the call short. I thanked them for their time and coordinating, only to NOT hear back for the next 3 weeks. Upon following up, I receive a generic rejection email without any thought or personality. I see how much respect they have for candidates.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
What's your background?
What's your strength and weakness?
"I just need to run through these generic questions because I'm not supposed to be interviewing you and I don't want to or have time to interview you, so let's just cut the time in half and call it good."
I was contacted directly via a designer at Oculus to apply for a role although the criteria wasn't a good match, I did so and the process dragged on for several months after being bounced from recruiter to recruiter with long bouts of silence.
I was requested to interview onsite which required me to fly in and out although I had not actually been given any job description as I was being "considered for several roles" (keep this in mind) which made it close to impossible to prepare a relevant presentation.
The outcome after rounding up interviews they accepted someone from outside of the process through "referral" although applications had closed.
From start to finish I found the situation suspect, but I rolled with it. My gut instinct tells me that I was put through the process of "several roles" because I fulfilled "minority" criteria in the hiring process to bring their stats up to par for each role, this became emphasized when I googled one of the recruiters names and many tech articles came up that a recruiter of the exact same name has an ongoing legal dispute with Google for unfair dismissal due to *drum roll please* ...refusing to hire minorities.
Just to be absolutely clear I saw no diversity in the Oculus team at all. It's apparent in terms of design the company is in free fall, the NDA they make you sign ensures that any of your ideas discussed during the process belongs to Facebook, something they don't make you aware of until you're months into the process(!), potentially meaning that's applicable to anything you may have shown or said prior to being asked to sign it. Unbelievably dirty tactic!
Instinctively, they're fishing for free design consultation because they're struggling to make products, everything Oculus introduces as “new” already exists and is made by other companies. Naturally, there’s a reason for that.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Mostly generic that fall under unpaid market analyses