I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at IMBUE (San Francisco, CA) in Sept 2025
Interview
This was one of the strangest interview processes I’ve ever been through. It stretched over months, included a complex 2-day trial project (which I received positive feedback on), and ended with an invasive “WHO interview” that felt inherently biased, uncomfortable, and unrelated to the job.
Despite the effort I put into the project, I was rejected and left with the impression that the trial process is used to extract ideas and solutions for challenging problems the company hasn’t been able to solve internally. The process felt gimmicky and inconsistent with their stated values of caring for the “whole person."
Bottom line: Be cautious — LOTS of red flags.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Specific names and spellings of everyone you worked with, which is a big red flag in WHO-style interview where they start using your answers to build a backchannel reference list, often without your consent.
