I was referred by an employee at Twitter for a product design position. I had a brief phone screening where I learned more about the role and they asked for information on my background. Afterwards, we setup a call for the interview. An emergency came up on my end, and while I was able to chat briefly for a couple of minutes with the interviewer, I asked them if we could reschedule. Since that point, the people at Twitter have completely dodged and ignored all of my emails and I can't get any information out of them. They are completely unresponsive. This has really disappointed me, and I won't be applying for Twitter again. Their HR team is completely scattered, and the applicants are the ones suffering.
It wasn't bad. The interview evaluates your product thinking skills for the most part. But they also want to know more about your problem-solving skills. Some of the questions included: How would you improve user engagement on WhatsApp? Tell me a time when you influenced engineering to build a particular feature. Design a new feature for Twitter that improves the new user’s experience
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Question 1
How would you improve user engagement on WhatsApp?
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at X (New York, NY) in Nov 2021
Interview
It was a long process—about 4 interviews (1 with the hiring manager, 1 with potential teammates, final 2-part panel with various people from product, research, engineering, and design) over the span of 5 months. After being told I was a "yes" from everyone and the recruiter claiming she had enough info to put together an offer, I was unfortunately ghosted under the guise of them "finding a better team" for me. I did have one more interview with a different hiring manager for another team, but my emails to them since then were met with silence. This was a very disillusioning and heartbreaking experience for me so I likely will not apply to Twitter again.
The process took 3 months. I interviewed at X (London, England)
Interview
Submitted my CV several months ago but never received a response. Even on the HR platform it says the CV was never reviewed. When people go through the effort of submitting one at least respond to them even if it’s a rejection.
Product Designer applicants have rated the interview process at X with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 20% positive. To compare, the company-average is 39.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Product Designer roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at X overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at X as a Product Designer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
Presentation: 17%
Group panel interview: 17%
Background check: 17%
Personality test: 8%
Skills test: 8%
One on one interview: 8%
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