Ensighten Interview Questions
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I was contacted on LinkedIn by an HR person from Ensighten for a Graduate Enterprise Sales Role. We had a phone chat first, where she told me about the job. Then we had another phone interview two weeks later. After that, I was invited to their London office for an interview with the sales manager and the HR manager. It seemed nice and quick, this was in early September, but I'm still waiting for a response. I have to share my very negative experience. The HR lady who first contacted me was late three times for our scheduled calls, sometimes by two hours, or she'd email to reschedule an hour or two after the agreed time. After the in-person interview, she called to say I passed and we talked salary. She said she'd call in 2-3 days to set up a meeting with the general manager. Two weeks passed with no word. She then mentioned she was going on holiday and someone else would contact me in two days. Nothing. I waited another two weeks and called them myself. The person I spoke to seemed surprised she was away but said she was busy. I waited some more, then emailed expressing my disappointment and that I was withdrawing. She replied immediately with apologies, saying she had just returned from holiday and a new GM would review my CV the next day. She promised a call with feedback on Friday (this was Tuesday). It's now November 5th and I still haven't heard anything. The whole process was really weird and disappointing, how they treated me. I hope no one else goes through this at Ensighten.

So I applied after dropping my resume at the career fair and got a 30 min phone call the next week. It was like a standard phone interview with a mix of coding and behavioral questions. Later that day, I got an invite for some onsite interviews, three of them, and one was with a director. The technical interviews were okay but the questions were a bit much for the time given, like they should have been longer. For instance, one interview had a linked list question, a tree traversal, an sql query, a brain teaser and the usual 'tell me about yourself' type questions. Everything was rushed and I didn't have enough time to really dig into any one problem. It was pretty stressful and I felt like I couldn't think straight during one of them.

I was contacted by a recruiter via LinkedIn, and we had an initial screening call. After that, I had a phone interview with the VP of Marketing, who is the Hiring Manager. He was very helpful and shared his vision for the role and what he expects from a PM. The conversation was mostly behavioral questions. The next step was an onsite interview on a Friday evening with 5 people. It was informal and mostly professional. I met with the VP of Engineering (high-level expectations), a Software Engineering Manager (peer discussion about my role in SCRUM), a Senior Product Manager (focus on product management, competition, and technology), a Sr. Director of Product Marketing (some questions on innovation, felt a bit like a 'gotcha' interview), and the Hiring Manager (VP of Marketing) again, who was informal and encouraged questions about the company. The Hiring Manager said he'd make a decision in two weeks. However, the following Monday morning, the Recruiter emailed to say they were moving forward with another candidate. I was disappointed, and didn't even have time to send thank you notes. Many of the team were new, some having been there only a couple of months.

So first I got some questions sent over email to help me prep for the phone interview. They were like, 'why are you looking for a job?' and 'what's most important to you in your next gig?'. The phone interview itself was more about talking through those answers, no tech stuff then. After that, I had a Skype chat with two lead developers. They wanted to get a feel for my experience and what coding languages I'd used. They also went into detail about what Ensighten does and its history. I got to ask them questions too, about the job and the company. It was pretty chill, not intense at all, the devs were super nice. Then they said I'd get a test to move on. The test was to build an MVC app with Spring Boot, though I could use another framework if I wanted.