After submitting my CV, I had a 30 min interview with someone from Emma. After that, I got moved to the next stage, which lasted a Friday afternoon. During this time, I had a company presentation, followed by 3x 45 min interviews. During this process, the interviewers were not friendly and it felt like free labour. Taking time off my job for such an extensive process is abusive, and during the process they were scouting for free ideas “Tell us what new product Emma could launch” or “If you had a great start-up idea what would that be”. These are the type of questions you don’t ask during an interview.

Abilities test online, followed by a 1 on 1 interview with an employee, followed by recruitment day consisting of a company presentation and 2 to 3 interviews. I had an extra interview before I officially got in. The first interview is to understand whether there is a fit between the candidate and the company (although I have heard that this can change depending on who is conducting the interview). The recruitment day consists of a full afternoon (I had to take the day off from my job at the time). 2 interviews with at least one team member present in one of them and a 3rd interview if the 2 interviews go well. In this recruitment day, they give you hypothetical situations like "how would you test a product?" or "if you could choose between partnering with brand X or Y to enter a new market in country Z, which one would you choose and why?". They also give you brain teasers, going from "what's 235 divided by 8?" to those classic ones about weighing balls that all look the same but one has a different weight. I prepared well for these by googling common brain teasers. It's a matter of practice and they don't necessarily care about the answer, but rather how you get there.