I once interviewed for UC. Their assignment was by far the most interesting and difficult to do. They problem statement was just 1 line and it was up to the candidate to fill the space and come up with a design solution. The deliverables apart from UI screens was 3 usability tests and a document highlighting all the work. Very rewarding assignment tbh, the leadership there was kind enough to send a brief feedback on the assignment which is very rare these days.

How much time was given to complete the same ?

Product Manager

7 days but with a full time job I could spend around 20-24 hours on this

Product Designer

finding a solution without  a problem statement which  look something like this “This is a user interface and come up with a fresh perspective. “

Senior Product Designer

What was the most challenging design assignment you received so far and from which company?  How to approach a whiteboarding challenge if the question is very vague or 1 liner?

What was the most challenging design assignment you received so far and from which company?

How to approach a whiteboarding challenge if the question is very vague or 1 liner?

Design assignment/ Task and Whiteboarding

Design assignment/ Task and Whiteboarding- Grapevine

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Hi all, I have interview scheduled with Zepto for PM-II role. Could someone tell me how many rounds are there and what each of the rounds are?

Zepto PM-II Interview

What’s the state of product designer interview these days?

Analyst

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In general my mind works decently well, but in interviews I'm having a mind block and not able to think through. I start getting tensed the moment I feel I gave the wrong answer and screw up the remaining interview. Any suggestions on how I can improve?

How do you have peace of mind in interviews?

Why does everyyyy company wants us to do their assignments, like WTF is my portfolio not enough of a proof of work for you? I worked my ass of on my portfolio. I apply to tons of company at the same time so if every company starts to give their assignment we will focking die with a mental illness

Design assignments are killing me

Doee anyone knows what is usually asked in APM interview at bankbazaar? Help ya girl out😫

Early in my career, I was working with a client who was always frustrated with me. I was also frustrated with her because she always used to give design inputs and had horrible taste and decision making was absolute shit.

I got so angry at that woman that I added a middle finger gesture in the reflection of the water. It was super unnoticeable but if you really knew where you were looking at then you could make it out. 

The craziest thing is that they actually posted that in their social media. 😂

What is your design horror story? 😂

What is your design horror story?

Operations Manager

Really excited to do this! 

Here's a little bit about my career:

- I dropped out of college to build a design studio with 20+ people for 4 years before leaving that to start another studio.

- I’ve worked across most major startups in Bangalore (not including brand names here for anonymity)

- I’ve worked across brand identity design, UX/UI, social media marketing, ad films, animation/motion graphics, and 3D

Happy to answer questions about design, freelancing, starting an agency/studio, the design industry, etc.

AMA ☞ Founder of a design studio based out of Bangalore

Founder

Can anyone help me with what most common asked questions are as a product designer of experience 2 years

Product designer interview questions

UX/UI Designer

Worked on UX DESIGN, mobile apps, FE , micro service, devops, AR/VR, AI & ML.  Holds 25+ patents. 

AMA!

AMA - 19 years experienced VP

Executive Director

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Why do companies giving such assignments which is not even on react js, it is on fabric.js, and isnt a single functionality is enough to judge. Along with this i got wireframe design to designed it as well. 
What is your thought on this ?

Ruthless assignment

Software Developer

I’m interviewing at a bunch of companies and most of them want a generalist in the product designer position. Expecting to take on every responsibility possible, leaving no room for any sort of work-life balance. 

Founders/co-founders, listen up. You might be obsessed with the problem you’re solving. Do not expect others to be equally obsessed. With all due respect, we’re here to look after ourselves and our families. You disguise these additional responsibilities as “learning opportunities” which is absolutely bollocks. You don’t even offer to pay accordingly. 

Just needed to rant. If anyone else here has a different point of view, I’m open to changing my opinions.

What’s with these companies and their expectations from designers to do everything?

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Which companies hire without DSA in their interview process?

Hiring without DSA ?

With over 10+ years of experience in Product management within the insurance and Fintech sector, I’ve realized that product management is still not understood/defined well as a role. I’m open to all sort of queries.

Ex-Policybazaar Product Head #AMA

Product Owner

I recently interviewed at a startup for a Backend role. I cleared the initial take-home assignment round and subsequent DSA round and their HR told me the third round would be a Design round. I prepared accordingly. At the time of the interview, no one showed up. I had to wait for 15 minutes for someone to show up. Instead of asking me a Design question, the latecomer asked me another DSA question. I asked him why is he doing that as it was clearly communicated to be a Design round. The interviewer said Design would be asked in the next round if I clear this one. Weird!

He only gave me 10 minutes to come up with the solution. After that he spilled the answer, and cut the call abruptly. I get a rejection email the next day.

Now why am I writing this post? Because I just saw the CTO of thar company rant on Linkedin about how his candidates declined their offer letters at the last minute. The moral of the story is that if you misbehave with your candidates, they will misbehave with you. So be prepared to take the L.

Poor Hiring at Fintech

Senior Engineer

been working at a product based startup as the only ui/ ux designer for over 6 months now. work is usually solving for and designing new features, or thinking redesign from user grievances. the products were already designed for them by an agency before my joining and feel poorly designed to me, but does the job for the users. decisions regarding usage and the how-tos of implementation are taken by the product leads.

in such a scenario, i don't see myself taking product decisions, but i try to suggest my ideas (mostly accepted) when we frame the requirements and solutions. how do i grow from just largely only designing what my leads tell me, to actually making an impact with the products we have?

background- i'm an electronics engineer, landed a design internship at a startup a little before graduation and they offered a full time role after. accepted it over my placement and it's been over 6 months in this role.

thanks & cheers :)

Growth as a designer?

Visual Designer

Hello people,
We are building a recruitment platform to make hiring easy and fun. Having worked with a recruitment startup, we weren't able to hire for our own team. Hire first, fire faster mode ON tha humara.

So, we found this gap mostly in the early stage startups who don't invest in their recruitment properly.

So can you guys please share your experiences with landing a job with early stage startups.

Rant about recruitment in startups

Generalist

I'm interviewing a company, where one round is rapid prototyping round? I have never given this round earlier? Even though they are saying it's figma understanding, ui analysis round. But due to unfamiliarity I'm asking in the community.

Few things I'm looking for -
1. What will be the evaluation criteria?
2. What kind of brief they might give?
3. What things do I need to do?

Anything related advice.

TIA.

What you need to do in a rapid prototyping round?

Hi 
Wanted an opinion on how do you all tackle the assignment bit when it comes to assignments as part of hiring processes. One, how regular or normal is it at senior positions ? And two, I feel that a lot of times they just ask you to do everything that is expected of the job. Eg: Create a marketing strategy after analyzing landscape and top 3 competitors. Add graphs etc.
I always have a concern of getting most out of you. Since its at round 1 they would be getting multiple such assignments, which means by design lpt of this work will be a waste and lots of inputs freely sourced.
How do you all handle it ? Can you push back ?
P.S: Am from business/ marketing aide of things and not sure of how it works for techies/ product.

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