The Honest Company Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
Based on 90 interview experiences · FREE TO READ
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First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at The Honest Company.
The Honest Company
Executive Assistant
Executive Average Negative experience No offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Onsite
Interview formats
Behavioral
The process had way too many rounds for an EA to the Chief of Staff role. The questions weren't that hard, so it shouldn't have taken 2 months. I had to chase them to schedule interviews. Then they reposted the job before I even met with leadership. I sent them proof of the repost and was told the role was filled, even though someone else said it was paused. Good luck to the new hire, they seem really disorganized.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you tell me about yourself?
The Honest Company
Anonymous
Entry Average Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical
I think there was some confusion on Honest's side about what the job actually was, like HR and the hiring manager weren't on the same page. The interviews felt like they were for totally different jobs. Also, their communication was pretty bad, I had to chase them up a bunch of times.
Confirmed questions1 question
- What makes you want to join Honest?
The Honest Company
Brand Manager
Senior Average Positive experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Onsite
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical
The interview process was straightforward. First I had a phone screen with the recruiter, confirming basic details like compensation expectations, experience level, etc. Next I had phone interview with a mid-senior level member of the team. After that, I completed a video interview with the hiring manager directly.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- What makes you interested in working at Honest?
- Tell me about a time you utilized a distinctive or unusual metric. What insights did you gain and how did you apply them?
The Honest Company
Client Service Representative
Entry Average Negative experience No offer 5 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Technical screen Onsite Panel Background check
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Presentation
The interview process consists of 5 rounds, after which candidates are ghosted. They do not value the time candidates spend preparing or speaking with recruiters, managers, directors, team leads, and HR representatives over several days. It's unfortunate when candidates make personal sacrifices, like missing a funeral and a graduation, to interview. Companies should be mindful that a multi-round process is time-consuming, and candidates sacrifice valuable time. Ghosting is not a good practice, especially after candidates invest over 30 hours in preparation and interviews, going through an intense and overwhelming experience.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Can you elaborate on your reasons for valuing honesty?
- How do you handle situations where you need to decline a customer's request?
The Honest Company Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from The Honest Company interview reports.
“Can you write a function that checks if a given string is a palindrome?”
Read reports →“Write an algorithm that returns the largest total of any sub tree given a binary tree.”
Read reports →“What was the last song you heard on the radio?”
Read reports →“What is regularization, specifically in the context of regression?”
Read reports →“You're given an array with 1,000,001 integers, which are numbered from 0 to 999,999, but one of them is duplicated. You don't have enough memory to store all of them. How do you find the duplicate?”
Read report →“For a string such as "Glassdoor is great and I love using it", can you list all substrings that end with the final word?”
Read report →“Which TV show would you be if you were one?”
Read report →“Looking around the room, what do you see that is wrong?”
Read report →“There was one probability question; can you solve it?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 90 The Honest Company interview reports.