I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Guidepoint in Mar 2022
Interview
I applied for a full-time role with the Insights team, interviewed with them, and did a sample project. They then asked me to do some more work as a contractor so they could better evaluate my work. Feedback was always positive and targets met, but the full-time role never materialized, it always seemed to be dangled right around the corner as a retention tool. I spoke with others who had a similar experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Experience on the subject matter? Are you willing to do a sample project?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Guidepoint (Mumbai)
Interview
First an HR got in touch to take details
Then hiring manager round was arranged
The hiring manager named was very arrogant with a pathetic body language and rude demeanor. I haven't had a worse experience during an interview with any company period.
Also interestingly, their business model is apart from doing research, doing expert calls and saving these to their database for their clients. Which makes me wonder whether they do these interviews just to get free information out of experienced industry experts without needing to pay them.
His frustration was mainly because I refused to divulge specific details due to my NDA at current and previous organisations. That made me wonder, why will someone get so frustrated. You can simply reject me or ask me questions so that I don't have to divulge specifics. Just concepts, sources, etc.
Lastly, first time around the teams link shared did not work, so asked them to do the call on any other platform so that interview does not need to be postponed. But they wanted it specifically on that platform only for reasons best known to them.
Don't bother interviewing. A waste of time and effort. And a person who is treating interviewees like this, I can only imagine how he treats his reportees.