I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Proper Cloth (New York, NY) in Aug 2023
Interview
I applied online through their website after seeing a posting on LinkedIn. While it is rare to see a company take interest in online applications without a referral I was surprised when less than a week later I received an email asking me to come in and interview. My current manager gave me a short tour of our office/showroom in Soho and asked me a lot of behavioral/situational questions, taking time to thoroughly reference my resume while also giving me the opportunity to share how I want to learn from this position, which is a primary goal of any internship. Less than a week later the HR representative reached out to me with an offer letter. Amazing, kind and respectful people. The CEO is taking a lot of heat in the reviews for some reason whereas truthfully I find that any CEO of a company with 50+ employees that takes the time to personally interview each candidate should be commended for caring that much about their people and company. A great interview process through and through.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a professional skill/attribute you want to work on? How do you approach challenges at work? How do you prioritize your time when you have a lot of tasks to work on?
extremely poor and unorganized way of conducting an interview. Phone call with the founder initially, who after 30 minutes of reviewing my resume with me said he was going to be "transparent" to say I wasn't a fit for the role because the experience on the resume didn't match with the company's missions. This is obviously something that should be been screened before, so that my time isn't wasted. Random questions with awkward pauses from the founder.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Proper Cloth (New York, NY)
Interview
Super cordial and timely responses. Even promptly accommodated a reschedule, was super understanding about it. Interview was nice didn’t expect to be with CEO right from first round in person but he was pretty friendly. Thru the convo learned about company and it was a pretty insightful conversation on market and ecommerce which was pretty cool.
First spent about 45 minutes talking about background and resume etc. Then it was a technical challenge which required me to come up with an excel formula (had no knowledge on that) but I solved it in python as a workaround.
Unfortunately they quickly got back to me with a “thanks but no thanks” and when promoted for feedback it was because I didn’t have a background in domain of company but my resume was pretty obvious on that fact so not sure why I was invited to interview in the first place.
Overall first round it was straightforward fast process and mostly friendly. Disappointed in result wondering if not solving an out of right field technical challenge in excel was reason.