I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at A.K.A. New Media in Mar 2019
Interview
HR screening followed by a take-home assignment and an in-person. The take-home instructions were provided as a word document and a mdf file to test against. The mdf would not load without manual changes and even afterward didn't conform to the schema presented in the word document. During the in -person the CTO took me to task for altering the mdf and not implementing some requirements that were not even present in the specification. I indicated to him that the assesment's timeboxing was unrealistic and he dismissed this and my other concerns about it. Seems like an egomaniac. Having spoken to other candidates this is not an anomaly; their hiring process is broken probably because of the CTO.
I applied online. I interviewed at A.K.A. New Media
Interview
Redundant. Had a panel interview and then a second panel interview with almost the same people where they asked the same questions. Could have been better planned. Interviewers were distracted and condescending.
I applied online. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at A.K.A. New Media (Toronto, ON) in June 2020
Interview
I received an email inviting me to a telephone interview and they asked which times worked best for me. After the telephone interview I heard back by e-mail that they went with another candidate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a customer service interaction you have experienced