Coleman Research Interview Questions
& Process

Interview with HR team, interview with hiring manager, then a case study assessment. The case study was supposed to take 30-45 minutes and involved writing an email, making a decision, and providing examples of recruiting experts into the network. Finally, there was a final in-person interview.

So, the HR team had this really unprofessional way of handling things, like zero transparency and no follow-up after more than a month. I didn't even apply to Visasq/Coleman; a recruiter hit me up about a job, and it was a total waste of my time. I went through 4 interview rounds over a month and then just got ghosted. The recruiter was super responsive at first, but then just stopped replying. They really don't seem to care about how candidates feel. If I knew I'd get ghosted, I wouldn't have bothered. Just be careful.

The interview process was straightforward but felt lengthy and tiring. The HR and hiring teams seemed to have an inflated sense of importance, stretching out the process unnecessarily and acting as if their work was extremely complex. They also offered a fixed starting salary without negotiation, citing equality, which felt like a cop-out and went against rewarding merit. The main takeaway is to focus on identifying talent effectively.

Coleman's interview process was pretty decent, with most interviewers being nice. It began with emails to set up a call from the US. Then there was a case study (which took about 24 hours to complete and wasn't too hard, just a bit of a drag to get through the work processes part) and an online multiple-choice test (no prep needed, just general questions, took about 48 hours). The final stage was a video interview that was supposed to be an hour but ended up being an hour and a half with four interviewers. The first two handled the first part, and the other two took the second. It felt a bit like an interrogation at first, but the initial interviewers were really nice. I did a mock call where I had to pretend to recruit an expert, and that actually went better than I expected. They gave some constructive feedback on where I could improve, which was great. But the second half of the interview wasn't as good. One interviewer stayed nice and tried to keep things on track, but the other seemed to enjoy making simple questions super complicated, especially about the case study. When I explained how I thought about things and what I might do differently, one interviewer used really big words and made the questions sound way harder than they were, just needing a one or two-word answer in the end. I'm not sure if that was part of the job, but it felt like they were trying to trick me, making it really awkward. It was like a presentation of how smart she was, which felt rude. I appreciated the other interviewer trying to ease the tension. I didn't get an offer, maybe because it wasn't a good fit, but it made me rethink if I'd even want to work under that kind of management. Even with the mixed feelings, I'd still say it's worth trying Coleman. The whole experience was eye-opening about the company culture and their approach.