Children's Minnesota Interview Questions
& Process

I had a call with a recruiter, and then I interviewed with the unit manager. It took around 3 weeks for the whole process. They were really responsive to emails and calls. I couldn't start for about 6 months after the interview, and they were able to work with that!

It was a pretty chill interview process. They mostly just talked about my background and experience, like a normal interview. We started with some behavioral questions about personality, work ethic, and collaboration. The second half was more technical, asking about specific SIEM tools, security procedures, and incident response frameworks. There were also some situational questions.

I applied in December, and after forgetting about it, I was contacted at the end of January for a phone interview. A recruiter called to set up the call for the next week. It was pretty long, about 45 minutes, and just asked broad theoretical questions about my communications experience. It wasn't hard, just really long and thorough. The next week, a different HR person contacted me to schedule an in-person interview for mid-February. I was set to meet with four people: an HR person (not the recruiter or the scheduler), a communications manager, a marketing manager, and a PR manager. The first meeting was with the HR person for about 30 minutes. It was pretty standard, asking about my experience and thoughts on diversity. Next was the communications manager, who asked the same questions plus some more job-specific ones. This interview lasted about 50 minutes. The PR and marketing managers were late, so she kept asking more questions. Eventually, one of them showed up and we started the next interview, where she asked me the same questions. Then the other manager arrived and I had to start all over again. After the interview, they walked me out and said I'd hear back. The whole thing felt very repetitive. I learned that the company had a big re-org recently, bringing in new people and implying some left. This role was being refilled a few months after it was created as part of that. I didn't get a good feeling about it. It's now mid-May, and I never heard back. After going through these interviews that didn't build on each other or give me a clear picture of the role's fit within the company, and taking the time to drive out to their campus, I expected at least a rejection email or an update. I never received one. I got another job offer shortly after the interview, so it wasn't a huge deal, but I was really surprised by the apparent lack of respect from Children's Minnesota towards potential candidates. Do they not care enough to ghost people after they've interviewed, or are they just that disorganized?

I was asked a lot of behavioral/scenario questions like ones I've seen in other reviews. Some of the recruiters don't seem qualified to screen people out. It felt like they just wanted to see if I knew what to expect in the position. Honestly, during the whole process, it felt like I was just another name on a list the recruiter had to get through before the week ended. When I asked when I'd hear back, they said they still had to interview others that week and I should hear within a week, which felt like a hint I didn't get the job.