Candidatei-me online. Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Paessler GmbH.
Entrevista
Nice and friendly. Case study given. Time to prepare given. Relies heavily on SQL and Power BI. Overall nice and friendly people, The whole process was very transparent and quick. Nothing to complain about.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Presentation of the case and later questions on the same.
Candidatei-me online. Fui entrevistado pela Paessler GmbH em mar. de 2026
Entrevista
I applied for two marketing positions at Paessler and received a single rejection email for both, stating that my "qualifications and experience are not suited to any position we are looking to fill at the moment."
I asked for specific feedback. None came.
What came instead was a surprise interview invitation for one of the roles I had just been rejected for. The interview with the hiring manager went well, and I was subsequently invited to the final stage - a panel interview with a presentation.
I invested significant time preparing and delivering that presentation. The rejection that followed was, once again, a copy-paste template: "your profile unfortunately doesn't fully match our expectations and your previous experience doesn't sufficiently align with our requirements."
Let that sink in: according to their first email, my qualifications were "not suited to any position" at Paessler. Yet I was good enough to be invited back, pass the hiring manager stage, and present to a panel. To then be told my profile and experience don't align - after reaching the very final stage - says everything about the quality of their recruitment process.
As for the panel itself: the marketing team did not come across as a cohesive unit. Each member seemed to operate independently, and I got the impression I was presenting to people from different organisations rather than a single team with a shared direction. In my professional opinion, the team came across as unprofessional and disconnected.
One moment stood out in particular. During the discussion, the team demonstrated a misunderstanding of the B2B marketing funnel - a concept I have worked with daily across 20 years of professional experience as a B2B marketer. The funnel is wide at the top and narrows toward the bottom, where prospects are closest to purchase. The team implied the opposite. For a marketing team, that is a serious concern.
The recruitment process lacks transparency, consistency, and respect for candidates' time. If you're considering applying, go in with realistic expectations.
Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Paessler GmbH (München, Bavaria).
Entrevista
I didn’t feel the respect and openness I expect in a healthy engineering environment — for example, when I shared an idea, instead of a constructive discussion, it was dismissed. Technically, they also put me into a vague setup where the goal was unclear, and one interviewer acted as if failure was the expectation.