I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at For Days in May 2025
Interview
First interview went great, then they said the next step was to do a take-home assignment - Propose a feature that will drive increased app engagement on Trashie. (they don't have a mobile app currently but want to add one). I designed and laid out a fantastic app idea, sent it in, and then was ghosted. They finally responded and said they had to pause on hiring for internal reasons. Months later they posted a similar job and wouldn't reply to me at all. Clearly they were just harvesting for ideas. If they do this with 10 people, they'd have their whole mobile app designed and laid out without having to pay a dime. Dishonest and... ironically... Trashie. What a crappy way to treat people who are genuinely interested in working for you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To design a page of their mobile app to drive traffic and engagement
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at For Days (Los Angeles, CA) in Feb 2024
Interview
I went into this interview process excited about the mission. I love the concept and used trashie to clean out my parents closets and my own, but after my interview experience with them, as well as the shifting parameters with the trashie customer program, my ardor has dimmed.
I have been operating as a fractional/freelance for five years and am managing anywhere between two and six projects at any given time. I've become extremely efficient as well as maintaining flexibility when it comes to meeting client needs and keeping project pipeline.
The interview was originally set for a Wednesday afternoon per the offered calendar slots that came from them. I got an email from the cso Tuesday night after 6pm requesting if the meeting could be moved up to 8:30AM. I stupidly answered that email and agreed to it, which was my fault for looking at it after close of business, meanwhile, I was on the bubble of a cold. Next morning I'm up at 6am, and have no voice, as the respiratory thing I had begun to take hold. I did answer the rescheduled call with gravel in my voice. This seemed to irritate the cso, within five minutes she requested to move out the meeting to later in the week, time tbd. I gave her the parameter that I prefer to start meetings after 9:30AM/10AM at the earliest as I begin my work day setting up my clients for success and afternoon is the ideal time for an interview call. I get a rescheduled meeting request for 10am Friday morning. I wanted this job, and didn't push back as this would be the third attempt to get this interview on the books.
My client had a last minute onsite need that day, so my plan was to get to the office early (I'm 95% remote) and take the call from my car. This put me in rush hour traffic, and though I gave myself an hour for what should be a thirty five minute commute, there was an accident and when the call came through, I was just about to exit the freeway to find a place to park to take the call.
I let Annie the cso know this, and her immediate reaction was "oh I don't like to take calls when people are driving" Which, tbh, I don't either but as I've been accommodating to this person and last minute scheduled by her the first time, and was making this time to work for her and STILL prioritize my client need, one would have thought there would be some grace.
Not with this woman! No. Though I was maybe five minutes from takin a freeway exit and still could have 20 minutes of parked car interview time, Annie immediately went to "I don't think this going to be a fit, there's been too much friction with this process." At that point, I was done and dropped my hope and just agreed. My reason being, I'm not interested in working with someone so petty and charmless.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
the subtext with the process seemed to be "will you put with our poor time management and bad boundaries."