If you are a NCIDQ or aspiring-NCIDQ interior designer, I advise that you include the following in your process before accepting a job here or at any architecture firm:
1) If your interviews have been virtual, ask for an in-person tour of the office.
2) Confirm your role and responsibilities as an interior designer. And related to this, ask if there are interior architects on staff.
3) Ask to see examples of specifically the interior design drawings in a full drawing set.
4) If anyone in the interior design department has credentials, check them online. For example, if an interior designer indicates ASID after their name, this means they have passed NCIDQ. In this case, you can either look them up in the ASID or the NCIDQ directories.
5) Try to determine what education the interior designers have.
After more than 15 years of working as a designer, I have not had to go through this check process before, but unfortunately interior design has been deregulated over the course of my career.