Candidatei-me online. Fui entrevistado pela Kumon (Londres, Inglaterra) em set. de 2017
Entrevista
The interview process took two months. I applied to the offer and I wasn't answered until three weeks after. They called me to make a phone interview. The woman talking to was supposed to be the former senior designer in the company but her questions weren't really focused on design... they were more about general life. She asked me a lot of questions, most of them repetitive and obvious. She informed me after the phone interview there would be a meeting talking about the company, either in London or other city in England that I would have to attend to be considered. I accepted. After some days they mailed me saying I had passed and I had been invited to the meeting. They gave me date an hour, and fortunately it was in London. The meeting was going to be three weeks after and it was scheduled this way:
Agenda Time
Registration 8:45-9:15
Tests 9:30-10:30
Break 10:30-10:45
Orientation part 1 10:45-12:45
Lunch 12:45-13:45
They changed the time to start 4 times. Finally the day arrived. I went to the place and there was more people, they made us complete a test. 10 second for around 50 simple maths questions, 10 seconds for geometric shapes test and 10 seconds for a counting test. After finishing the test the man told us "don't worry this isn't going to be all the percentage to decide if you stay or not". We enter to a room and there were like 5 people on the back observing and taking notes of us while another person started to "sell" to us how perfect is the Kumon Method. Apart from my opinion about it, this meeting was good for the people coming as teacher assistant, for the people coming as a designer being told that maths is the most important above creativity.... After this time chatting about how perfect was the system they gave us some sandwich and all the people from the company disappeared without saying anything. Two hours later they came and asked the other designer and me to go out and they told me I could go home. There was no interview at all, no question, nothing to interact about and obviously no conversation about design. It was a total lost of time and money to go and listen them.
Just after this weir meeting I saw they had posted again the offer while the metting was being held.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
The phone interview is full of repetitive questions. After this no question at all. 30 second test.
Candidatei-me online. O processo levou 4 semanas. Fui entrevistado pela Kumon (Ealing, England) em set. de 2017
Entrevista
It took a whole month to go through the three stages.
1- Three short numerical tests and face to face interview at the Ealing office. Same day I was told that I was successful. Two weeks later the next step followed.
2- Orientation meeting. Seven candidates (the eigth person was a filler) tested and observed by five people while an extra person kept the presentation about how 'great' Kumon is. This was held again at the Ealing office. At lunch time all employees disappeared. ......... Later I was told I am continuing to the next step.
3- Interview face to face with HR Officer, Mairketing Manager & Lead Designer. 10 minutes presentation. Talking about the given task. Many question, work related and personal as well. Towards the end of the interview I noticed how disconnected the Lead Designer had became. She made faces and in result I felt uncomfortable. After the interview I was told by the HR Officer that I was really good.....a few days later I was informed that I was not successful. No wonder, perhaps the Lead Designer did not like me at the end.
I wonder why would it take for a company six months to find the right candidate?
Perhaps it is a great way to collect many ideas through all the submitted tasks.
I feel blessed I did not end up working next to the Lead Designer.
Good luck to anyone who will be finally selected.
