Designer Interview Questions

I was not intending to discuss the salary at the interview but when asked I told the truth that it was significantly below my current salary. The interviewers then mentioned that it may be possible to go up the grade slightly if I was successful. I said this would be good but I understood that charities would not be able to pay large salaries. I did not press on this matter at all. The interview seemed to go very well but I was later emailed to say I was unsuccessful. When asked for feedback I was told that they were 'shocked' that all I was interested in was the salary. This was a ridiculous comment as it was the interviewers who brought up the whole issue, I was very angry that despite what I felt was a good interview and all the work and time I'd put in to my assignment and interview answers this is all that they seemed to focus on. 3 months later I saw they were recruiting again for the same role so I guess they couldn't get the first person to stay. I feel that I probably had a lucky escape from these people.

Apologies, voted down on your experience accidentally. I agree with what you have said.

Sorry, I pressed the vote button by mistake!

Seek mandate and support from C-suite level to explore unfamiliar and seemingly unrelated paths for researching and developing new product possibilities. Instill a mentality of "what if?". Get 3D early in the process using rapid prototyping. Identify experienced and trustworthy (maintain confidentiality) end users and bring them into the 3D physical design process early and encourage them to feel part of the creative process.

Innovation must meet the basic needs of the improvement and development of production so the work must be distributed to the team that is able to understand the renewable needs according to the appropriate specialization

Innovation must meet the basic needs of the improvement and development of production so the work must be distributed to the team that is able to understand the renewable needs according to the appropriate specialization

Designed a concept where PvP would take place in person on a real map. Paraphrasing here, but was basically told "nobody would want to go outside to play PvP" (Pokemon Go and Ingress players are nobody apparently) and "I wouldn't play this instead of CoC" (I wouldn't play my 4 pages of sketches over CoC either to be fair) by way of critique. The new design was met with "this sounds promising, but not the easiest game to make". In addition to a production-ready market-beating guaranteed top grossing sensation, this needed to be the utmost breeze to develop, you see.

Absolutely hysterical... how are these guys still in business?

They were almost closing the studio when they got lucky and got a successful game. They made some money and now they just think they are great and have the best culture in the world. What they do now is make fast prototypes and launch it on the stores just to see if they stick, and if they do then they make a better version of them. I'm pretty sure that they will close the new studio in the near future if they don't change their mentality and put their feet on the ground.

Tell us how would you start designing a project

first I'm thinked about the design,like flow, linking ,mould cutting and directional solidification, other aspects also

first I'm think about the design,like flow,linking,and directional solidification and other aspects also.

Usually the key stakeholders are Product owners, user researchers, technical lead and data scientist when needed. For more complex problems I also involve business analysts, customer support and sales.

In these sorts of interviews you really need to drill down and understand what the interviewer is looking for. A good way to simulate a real interview experience is to do a mock with one of the OakNorth Product Designer experts on Prepfully, rated super strongly on TrustPilot... prepfully.com/practice-interviews

Could you elaborate on the interview questions? What other stages were involved and how did you go about them?

It's essential to demonstrate that you can really go deep... there are plenty of followup questions and (sometimes tangential) angles to explore. There's a lot of Senior Product Designer experts who've worked at Curve, who provide this sort of practice through mock interviews. There's a whole list of them curated on Prepfully. prepfully.com/practice-interviews

Exactly the same thing happened here - had a phone interview lined up, but no one called at the scheduled time.

Yup, same happened to me too.