Smithbucklin Marketing Associate Interview Questions
& Process

The interview process started with a recruiter call that went great. Before any zoom calls with the team, there was a personality assessment which had a lot of questions about sacrificing personal life for work. After the assessment, the interview with the manager focused heavily on sales experience, which wasn't on my resume. It was a boring conversation, and I could tell it wasn't going to work out based on her attitude. The director's interview was fine, but I already knew it was over after the manager's interview.

The interview process was very organized and professional. The recruiter stayed in touch with me during the whole process. I had mostly nice interviewers. There was one phone interview and then two video interviews since I was interviewing remotely. For the video interviews, there were about 3 people. I got an offer, but I turned it down because I didn't like talking to the hiring manager. I thought she was rude. She asked me how my other interviews went, and when I told her, she said condescendingly, "That's it? Can you tell me a bit more?" I really couldn't imagine working for someone who was already being rude and condescending to me during the interview. After the final interviews, I had to do online personality and writing tests. Everyone else was really nice, though. The offer was good, but it didn't seem like a great place to work because of my experience with the hiring manager and the many bad reviews from current employees on Glassdoor.

So I had a phone screen, then a Skype with the hiring manager, and then an on-site. The on-site was two 30-minute chats with different team members. It was a long process, like 8 weeks, and they made it seem like I was a top choice. I was talking to the team a lot during that time. But in the end, I never got a call to tell me I didn't get the job. It felt really off, especially since it took so long and I put in so much time.