The overall interview process was well organized and went smoothly. I had two phone interviews and then an onsite. However after the on site interviews I left wondering if I really wanted to work at a company like this. I didn’t get an offer so I didn’t have to make that decision, but I hope this helps anyone who does. I believe a company and its employees should respect everyone. I understand that the point of an interview is to just a person’s character, but this does not require disrespect of the person and their time. One of my interviews came in with snacks and a laptop and was chewing and staring at the screen while I was answering questions. The interview came in uninterested in learning about me. I am sure there is a reason for it, but I didn’t agree with that behavior. Also, I am not sure everyone is in agreement in what they are looking for in this position. The job description clearly states that they want someone is somewhat technical or someone who can learn the necessary skills. While talking to the interviewers they seemed to contradict themselves on this. One person said that they were trying get someone who had more personal skill and could learn the technical skill, another person said that they role was very technical and that was most important, and they all said something different when I asked what directions the group as a whole was going.

Began the process back in February and completed the process in March. Worked with Hannah Burns who was very nice and helpful throughout the whole process. The 1st phone interview with Jay was a normal phone interview concerning my current position and background. The 2nd phone interview was with Rishabh and was a little harder. After a brief explanation of my current position and background knowledge, we went into a case study of how I would get a small brand coffee shop in Union Square more likes on Facebook within a 1 year period. Had to determine how many likes on Facebook they should get. Had to logically explain how I got to this number. Then had to explain tactics to get people to like the Facebook page and come into the store. The 3rd phone interview was with Michael. After a brief background and position explanation we went into another case study. This was about how I would resolve an issue with a customer who was with the company for 1 year. They had an issue that needed to be resolved asap, but the weekend happened and now it was Monday and they were upset the issue has yet to be resolved. It was a data quality issue. Liveramp was sending the wrong data. After the 3rd phone interview, they decided to fly me out to San Francisco for a round of in person interviews and a presentation to be given by me. They coordinated my flights and hotel. They also reimbursed me after my trip for my rental car, food, parking, and Uber while there. The hotel was extremely nice. I sat for 4 in person interviews and gave a presentation. The 4 in person interviews were with employees from different departments. I spoke with Rishabh and Michael again, Claire, and Riddhi. Michael, Claire, and Riddhi were all just normal interviews about my background, current position, current technical knowledge base, position expectations, and why I want to work for LiveRamp. Rishabh was again a harder interview. We did a case study of Gap and getting an advertisement out to rewards members while they are on the NY Times website. I needed to determine what can be used to determine this based off of what information Gap collects and what information Cookies can collect. Then i had to determine the number of people that are in the rewards program nation wide. Then I had to determine how this would work. The presentation agenda was the following: ""Many of today’s most compelling products are built by combining existing services and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) into a novel product. We would like you to develop a minimum viable product created by combining two or more APIs. The presentation will be evaluated in the following areas: -Explanation of the market opportunity and how the product solves the problem -Understanding of the target customer -Explanation of possible challenges (e.g. technical, user adoption, scaling, competition) -Working business logic in the code -Please provide examples of functional code (in any programming language) calling each API and parsing its response for product demonstration purposes. -Next steps after MVP Ability to answer questions about the product -Ex: What features would you build if you suddenly had 5 million users? -How would you position the product in the marketplace (i.e. differentiate the product)? -How would you monetize the product? The presentation will not be evaluated in the following areas: -Working/beautiful UI (a command line program works fine) -Choice of market (MVP doesn’t need to be related to digital advertising) Your presentation should be roughly 10-12 minutes long, leaving ~20 minutes for Q&A. "" The questions asked at the end of my presentation were extremely technical based. A panel of 3 employees were present for my presentation. All with vast technical backgrounds. This was the hardest part of the entire interview process. At the end, Hannah let me know that she would speak with the rest of the team and let me know a decision on Monday. If they decided to move forward, I would have 1 more phone interview with someone outside of the Product Implementation team. From there, they would decide on making me an offer. On Monday, I received an email explaining that I was not chosen to move forward for the Product Implementation Manager position, however, they would like me to contact them for a Technical Support position in their office. Ultimately, I turned down this office to move forward with a different position. The interview process was understandably hard. They are an extremely fast growing company and need employees with more technical background than what is stated in the position listing. I was extremely happy with the process, even if I did not get an offer for the original position I applied for. LiveRamp seems like a great company and their offices are amazing. All of the employees I met were very nice.