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IDEO UX/UI Designer interview experience

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ChinaPosted Jan 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was pretty lightweight—an HR interview arranged mostly by email, with scheduling that felt disconnected and easy to miss.

I later had another interview that ended up feeling unprofessional and oddly uninformed about my area of expertise, and that mismatch colored how I experienced the rest of the process.

The broader timeline stretched out over a while and became difficult to interpret. I had a mix of phone or video screens and then an in-person interview, where the portfolio review mattered and the questions stayed more about fit and competence than anything else. There wasn’t much clarity about why I wasn’t selected, and it felt like one misstep could have been enough.

After my final interview, I also

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