Haworth Interview Questions
& Process

The team was engaging and welcoming, really wanting to help me succeed. The interview process was standard, and they expected a good list of questions from me. Everyone was friendly during the process. It was a great interview experience with the company.

The HR and MD rounds at Haworth are designed to gauge your communication skills, strategic thinking abilities, and overall fit within the company. They use your resume, along with scenario-based and leadership-focused questions, to determine your placement within the organization.

The first call with the recruiter went well. However, the subsequent interview with the technology staff was incredibly strange. It felt like a setup with different personalities — one guy was silent for most of the time, then abruptly yelled a question. It seemed more like a test to see if I could handle a toxic work environment, as one interviewer implied I might have exaggerated my experience. Based on this, I wouldn't consider other roles in this team.

I only had the initial phone screen, but the questions weren't what they should have been. I have no expectation that people outside the field should understand or even know the names of different languages/programs, but the HR rep clearly didn't understand the questions or the answers, which made it extremely difficult. When I was supposed to talk about a specific project and how I completed it, I brought up R; she clearly didn't know what it was, so I have no idea if she even noted it for the hiring manager. If you hear "R" without knowing about it, do you even know to write the letter down, instead of "are" or "our" or do you just move on without noting it? The woman was perfectly kind and pleasant but the rep shouldn't have been given questions she'd have no way to understand. It was nearly an impossible conversation to have. I can understand that later in the process, as with a company that doesn't have any data people yet so the interviewers are more sales-minded people who wind up asking weird data questions that don't really make sense, but if you want to ask the more specific questions that early on, do a mini-assessment or something instead of a screening call.