Interview process is really aweful, vice president needs to review all candiates and challenge everything no matter how reasonable you are. A role play is a must, vice president will act at a terrible manager and keep rejecting what you said.
Negative experience
Easy interview
Application
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Appier (Tokyo) in Nov 2025
Interview
1st round HR casual talk
2nd round Hiring manager interview
Although the JD heavily emphasized an AI-driven ad-tech company, in reality the business model is essentially that of a DSP.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1、current experience sharing
2、what‘s the kpi for the current company
3、understanding of DSP
3 interviews, the first one with the direct manager, and the other two with two different teammates. Around one hour each. All of them had personal and professional questions. The fourth one should have been mainly technical, but didn't do it eventually. really nice people.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
*about my experience
*what would I do in all kinds of professional scenarios
*about tactics of optimizations.