I had a delightful zoom conversation with three people from Dart’s product teams each representing separate verticals of work. They wanted to know what brought me to apply and what kind of problem solving techniques I could apply to help their business.

Phone Interview was fairly straightforward interview questions with a couple of basic math questions like calculating a price after a discount. Second step of the process consisted of 1.5 hours of testing with a two hour face to face interview. Tests included a general test that had you doing as many word association, mathematical pattern recognition, vocabulary, problems as you could in 20 minutes. Second test was after the interview was a payback analysis done on the computer where you were supposed to show how long it would take to break even if a new feature was added to a product line. Some of the info given in that test were red herring and you needed to show your work through excel in a way that could be presented. The face to face interview was with the manager of the department and a senior member of the staff and was more in depth questions but nothing I would consider abnormal interview questions. How would you deal with a difficult coworker? If a big rush project was given to you near the end of the day how would you handle it? Those types of questions Last interview was with the department manager and a VP of the company and that’s where I felt the questions got more intricate and trickier. The VP definitely went through my work history and grilled me on why I made various moves and why, instead of staying with my current job, I didn’t try to get additional certifications or take on extra work to make my current position for desirable to me. I explained that I have tried to take on additional responsibilities at my current position and my current manager is not responsive. I also explained that at this time I am not able to take classes after work because I have a newborn son and my wife works as well so I need to be focused on my family. The VP did not seem to appreciate that answer as you should always be striving to improve yourself in a work setting. The last interview they definitely try to see how you will react to them challenging you on a personal level then they sprinkled technical questions that sometimes are not nearly as complicated as I thought they were. This is where I felt like I didn’t do a great interview as I sometimes answered simple questions with complicated answers when they were looking for the simple answer. I didn’t get an offer and I’m left frustrated because they knew that I didn’t have work experience in manufacturing but I feel my lack of knowledge was ultimately what doomed me from getting an offer. Also, the fact that my family will always be my number 1 priority in my life was viewed as a negative. Just because right now I need my focus to be on my family doesn’t mean that in the future I wouldn’t jump on opportunities to grow and gain additional certifications.