Catchafire Interview Questions
& Process

The interview process involved a recruiter call, followed by a work sample test, then an interview with the Hiring Manager, and finally an interview with an Executive. It was a pretty standard hiring process overall. My only feedback is that the recruiter wasn't very knowledgeable about the role or the skills needed, and they asked some very technical questions, which made the conversation a bit choppy and difficult to gauge how I performed.

Ghosting is fine for Tinder, but completely unprofessional for an organization that has been around for almost 15 years. If you begin the interviewing process with a candidate and speak to them face to face, give them positive feedback, they should also be given the courtesy of a reply when they reach out for updates on a very long interview process. The process for interviewing was average, professional questions and the hr person seemed nice, but after two calls completely fell off the planet never to be heard from again. Doesn’t leave a good impression of the organization, won’t recommend anyone be working with Catchafire, but after reading through the negative reviews, seems like that is well known fact at this point.

This was one of the craziest interview processes ever. I was really drawn to the company's mission and would have loved to work there, but the process just didn't work out for me. It was so intense and frankly a bit much, so I had to share my experience. The day after applying online, HR reached out to set up a phone interview for the next day. The phone interview went great, very much a modern, millennial vibe. No standard questions about strengths, weaknesses, or future goals – it was just a super chill, casual chat. I felt really good about it afterwards. That same evening, HR emailed with a 7-page case study, asking for a 4-page response by 12:30 PM the following day. It was basically a college-level assignment. My boyfriend, who went to a top business school, even reviewed it and said it was solid. I ended up spending about 8-9 hours on it. Two hours after submitting, I got rejected. My take: this company is way too full of itself. Just wanting to work for a socially conscious company and having the right experience wasn't enough. The whole process felt very overbearing and elitist.

So I never really write reviews, but this interview process was so wild I had to share. It started with a phone call where we just talked about my resume and personal background - like my upbringing, college choices, and generally my 'story'. It was all about fit, zero skill questions. Then, they sent me a big case study to do in 24 hours. I spent about two hours on it, but it had missing info, so I had to ask a question about the timeline which didn't make sense. They fixed it and apologized. The case study said the next steps were a 20 min role play and a 15 min reflection, done by phone. But then they asked me to come in person for it, which I was fine with, even though they blocked out 90 mins. The day of, they emailed saying the interview would be in a hotel lobby because the office was busy. Super weird, but okay. The interviewer was late, met me in the hotel cafe, and we sat there awkwardly for 90 mins with people eating around us. The interviewer ordered tea and we barely spent anything. To my shock, we didn't do the role play or reflection. Instead, they hit me with a completely new case study verbally, on the spot! It was poorly explained and outlandish. I tried my best, but every solution I suggested, they'd ask 'what if that didn't work?', pushing me hard. It felt confrontational. At the end, I asked some questions. The interviewer brought up that I asked similar questions to the first person and quizzed me on when she supposedly gave me feedback. It felt super staged and controlling. I was really disappointed the role play didn't happen and the whole vibe was off. They rejected me a few days later and never gave feedback, just thanked me for my own feedback on their process. This place is intense, definitely cult-like, and I'm glad I'm moving on.