The Princeton Review Interview Questions
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Administrative Assistant
Entry Easy Positive experience Accept offer 1 round
Interview process
Recruiter call
Interview formats
Behavioral
Had a quick call with the hiring manager. They asked me stuff like how I prioritize, how I handled challenges before, and about my past experience.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- What's your approach to task prioritization?
- Describe a time you faced a challenge in a prior role.
- Can you share some details about your background and previous roles?
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SAT Tutor
Entry Average Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Take home Phone screen Presentation
Interview formats
Other Behavioral Presentation
You'll start with an online SAT qualifying test. Then, there's a phone interview where we'll go over the basics of the role, including the training period, and ask some behavioral questions. Finally, there's a remote video audition, about 8-10 minutes long, where you'll present a lecture on an approved topic. I'm not sure what comes after that.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you share your experience with leading a team?
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Software Engineer
Mid Easy Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical
I had a recruiter call first, then about two weeks later, I was supposed to have an interview with the hiring manager. Right before the interview, he canceled it without any notice and just rescheduled it himself without checking my availability. When the interview finally happened, he was super late and acted really bored. He started off by saying, "Hey, I work in Princeton Review, if you want to know more about the company, you can look it up," which was pretty arrogant. After that, he asked a lot of questions, some were tricky and others were very theoretical. It was a terrible experience overall, and I never heard back from him or the recruiter, and they didn't give me any feedback.
Confirmed questions0 questions
No confirmed questions were included in this interview report.
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Teacher
Entry Average Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Presentation
Interview formats
Technical Presentation Behavioral
I responded to an ad for a GMAT teaching position. Two months later, they reached out about an MCAT teaching role. The interview had three parts: a diagnostic test, a phone interview, and a demo lesson via MS Teams for two interviewers. I went over the 10-minute lesson time, finishing in 11 minutes within the 15-minute buffer. I aimed the content at a 10th-grade level, but the interviewers seemed disengaged, with the time I allocated for their responses being too short. One interviewer had technical issues and fell behind the conversation upon rejoining three minutes later. They faced some difficulties due to their chosen technology, having canceled the demo lesson three minutes before it was scheduled earlier that week, likely due to tech problems. They mentioned another candidate had to disconnect and reconnect to share their screen. Unlike Zoom, the chat feature disappears in Teams when sharing your screen, which hindered my lesson plan that incorporated significant student interaction through quick typed responses, as I didn't anticipate needing to pull verbal answers. So now you know, so you can avoid my errors. Just keep it simple and teach something like how to survive a zombie apocalypse.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Do you know this subject matter?
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Read report →“What are some questions a confused student might ask in class?”
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