I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at IA Interior Architects (San Francisco, CA) in May 2015
Interview
I interviewed with the San Francisco Office. It was via Video chat. I interviewed with them on a Tuesday and literally a week later I got an offer.
It was pretty quick. I was suppose to interview with 3 others at once, but only one came into the conference. The HR Person gave me the list of names just in case all three were to join or just one. To keep this short, I wanted to go to Cali for my internship, (just know if you do out of state you are expected to provide your own living and travel expenses). But there was an office in my own State, fairly new, so By interviewing with the Bay area I ended up getting a response from the local Firm in my state. Very nice process and straight forward. you just need to know about yourself as a designer and your strength, weaknesses (though they really wont straight up ask you about that), and what you want to learn or how you see yourself growing. Make sure you can relate to some problems in the design process. Though you're in school, your projects should have some fall backs to talk about, and how you can get around them. Also, even though they don't ask, try to talk about the most enjoyable project/ winning project that relates to the question (if you have one). So it's not like you're just springing it up in their face, but they know you have skill and the project you did was one you put your all into. They also will have your portfolio up on the screen. They will have you share your screen or if not walk through it. I would take your website and compress your work into a pdf on the safe side so you have sorted out. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE RELIABLE INTERNET! use the school if need be. I used my teacher's office which was most private and undisturbed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you want to learn out of this?
Tell me some problems you overcame in class projects? (can be group or design related, it just has to come off like youre easy to work with, can avoid conflict and still come out with a great project)
The interview itself was a nice conversation with some interior design team members. I could tell that they cared about their work and were very talented designers. It was a typical interview with some basic questions and a walk-through of my portfolio. The negative experience was not due to a lack of a job offer, but a lack of communication from the recruiter. I had to follow up many times to confirm the interview time and was completely ghosted post-interview after multiple follow-ups (again). It would be better to receive a quick rejection instead of being left hanging.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Portfolio review, talking about previous work experience
I applied online. I interviewed at IA Interior Architects in Mar 2021
Interview
They contact me and asked me some questions just to know me and if I still want the position of the job, and after it were some questions about the expectacions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about the studies, interests and future plans
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at IA Interior Architects (Atlanta, GA) in Oct 2017
Interview
Standard Interview process, asked about portfolio and past job experience as well as their projects. They made sure that you had looked at that specific locations portfolio and local projects, not just as the global company.