Perguntas de entrevista da empresa mimik Technology

I read all the Glassdoor reviews after a local recruiter called me about the Project Manager position with mimik but they had preemptively called attention to the low ratings (and the personal Medium post) by saying "ask our team directly about our culture and values" so I decided to do just that. I was encouraged to hurry the process and my first-round interview was scheduled 2 days later. They don't directly list job postings on their website anymore (you can still see them on the Internet Archive) but they have been using the same duties and skills for at least a few years in their PM posts. LinkedIn called it "Project Manager", the email invite said "Sr Project Manager", and the attached PDF used "Agile Project Manager". They also spelled my name wrong. My interviewer was 5 minutes late to the start of the meeting. I'm pretty sure he got stuck in the Teams lobby because he wasn't listed as a organizer. He told me that he was a "technical guy" before becoming a "marketing guy" and finally ending up as a "sales/business guy" when I asked him about his title with mimik. Almost all of his answers to my questions were just as hand-wavey and vague, which only led me to more questions. He started the interview by asking me what we should do and we spent about 30 minutes talking about the business opportunities and how amazing their product is but you really have to understand AI to get how it works. I challenged him to give me mimik's core value in a simple sentence using layman's terms and he settled on "We bring the life to AI." which is one of their marketing tags. When explaining one of their existing applications in a Saudi Arabian passenger ship and a whale customer like Stellantis auto, the interviewer talked about the great benefits of cameras over sensors. It's true that sensors are only designed to do one thing (broadly implied to be a shortcoming) and cameras/video can be used for more general purposes but it's extremely rare for sensors to be hindered by high/low lighting conditions, give washed out signal according to the weather, or be fully occluded because someone parked a hoist in the wrong spot. Eventually we talked about project management at mimik. Well, every time I asked a "project manager" question, the interviewer would give me a "product manager" answer. He said that they needed one person to own all of the projects in their office from product dev to marketing and more. Each area of the company is currently doing this themselves (probably badly) but not to worry because it was "only around 15%" of each person's time so it could be effectively handled by one individual. He really wanted to turn things around from the current situation; "I (project owner) shouldn't have to know the status of my project, you (PM) should be able to tell me how my project is doing." Perhaps the biggest red flag of all is the fact that despite existing as Disternet since about 2009 before evolvine into mimik as of 2014, the company is currently in "startup mode" with somewhere between "50-60" employees. The interviewer told me that this happened roughly 1 year ago when the company changed focus from devices to a software layer than sits on top of any OS. He also told me he "works 24/7" from his home in the San Francisco bay area and that he might get calls at 6AM or 11PM despite the fact we were supposed to be talking about my role. Several of the other company leaders (including the CEO) also currently live in California. He said it didn't matter because business/sales people are always on the road anyways so they can work from anywhere but the engineering team is strictly 5-days a week in the Vancouver office. I really wonder what their travel costs look like and the ratio of highest-to-lowest salary levels. I never got a chance to ask if this gentleman could tell me the company's four core values from memory (Be Open, Be Remarkable, Be the Customer, and Do the Right Thing) and why he isn't listed on their website Team page. His LinkedIn profile lists him as "Venture Capitalist | Board | CEO | CFO" but has zero mention of any association with mimik. He does have a mimik.com email, however. mimik's own LinkedIn profile lists their headquarters in Oakland, CA in addition to mysterious offices in Madrid and London but they only have one physical building in Vancouver, as far as I can tell. mimik partly defines "Be Rermarkable" as "pay meticulous attention to detail". That's exactly what I did and this is what that looks like. If you can't follow one of your own core values then I have very low expectations you will follow the others with any seriousness. My advice is to take care of the problems which already exist before you bring in someone new to "fix" everything. Or maybe just don't let that venture capital dude from California handle your first-round interviews anymore, He didn't seem prepared.