I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Rakuten
Interview
This is for the Analyst position, currently being posted on Craigslist. The overall process is quite long, consisting of five sets of interviews. The initial one was a phone interview with the HR rep, the second was another phone interview with my would-be boss, the third was an in person interview with a co-worker and members of departments I would have been working with. The fourth was the manager of the department, while the fifth was the COO of the company. After the third interview, I needed to give 5 references, 3 of which needed to be professional. The references must be entered online and each reference was given a survey to fill out. All of the surveys had to be completed before the process continued.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Each of the interviews was pretty straightforward, pretty much walk me through your resume. There was also... walk me through the process of your job. One of the big traits they stress at Linkshare is communication, since you will be dealing with other departments.
It's red flag from the beginning. HR missed my schedule and then reschedule but joined the interview late.
The process is too long and not necessary, usually 3-4 rounds and need to do assessment as well.
Package is not competitive (no AWS, low basic salary in industry, bonus is only around 10% per year)
The interview process was disorganized, and the job posting was abruptly "canceled" an hour before the interview without clear communication to candidates, which felt unprofessional. It turns out they had just gone with another candidate, but this was not what was said in the explanation. The HR team was extremely unresponsive and was very vague in all emails.
Went through the complete interview process to be ghosted. Followed up but no response either. Why waste candidates time to ultimately ghost them? Was a frustrating experience. Please have some empathy for the candidates who really go through the process to at least have to courtesy to let them know the feedback.
