I applied online. I interviewed at Maestro (MI) in May 2024
Interview
I had an intro call with the lead person in HR, super kind and bubbly, gets your excited for the hiring process. A few days later I got an email for a Video Interview with the Department Head, I was so excited! Had the interview, they surprised me with an additional guy from Design, so there was three of them during the hour long interview. I could just tell that the HR lady liked my energy, but these two men are hetero, married men who would never hire a gay guy like myself, let's just keep it 100% real here. I know how the game works. She gave me an exact time frame of when I should hear back if I was moving on. As you can tell, I didn't hear back until over two weeks later and it was a copy/pasted rejection email. I knew it was coming, I could feel it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Where do I see myself helping the department grow?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Maestro (MI)
Interview
Casual yet in-depth. Three to four rounds of interviews with different groupings of people. Varied questions concerning working style, experience, communication, and personality. No skills assessment was required for my position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Share a time when you spoke up, shared feedback or challenged someone during a project in order to make it better.
I applied online. I interviewed at Maestro (MI) in Dec 2020
Interview
The interview process involves completing an assessment before speaking to anyone from the company. The assessment difficulty and length is considerable. Maestro themselves admitted that they never expect anyone to complete the entire assessment. I, however, did.
Despite the many hours I spent completing the assessment using their preferred tech stack to fulfill their business and technical requirements, they used the app I made for about 2 minutes (thanks, Firebase). They did not bother to test all the major and minor use cases I painstakingly implemented.
In the end, I waited over two weeks to speak with someone after completing my assessment, and I never got the opportunity to speak with engineering. The recruiter was helpful and informative, while their software team really should review relative length units and HTML5 before working in a production environment. (Hint: block-level elements don't require a width of 100vw. And even that's not correct. Use 100% or the content can overflow).
Overall, this was by far the worst interview process I've ever had, and they are clearly not considerate of their candidates' time.