I recently interviewed at Eight Sleep and it was the most demanding take home I've ever had. Their brief: "Create an in-app experience for a new product, integrating the existing app and flagship product." Even linked their design system and font family to use.
Originally, I didn't reveal their name until I discovered they were INTENTIONALLY doing this to others. Given these times with 1000s of people applying for any opening, and how much unpaid work could be sourced, I reveal them to warn others. We stand together!
I was laid off yesterday from my product design role at Tempo fitness due to restructuring.
Good news is I am in the best shape of my product design career (pun intended). 🤠
If you're interested in working together, DM me! Appreciate any favorite/retweet to help 🙏🏻
On top of this, you were required to put together a one-hour Zoom presentation, separate from the onsite interview.
The compensation for any of this? None. 🚫
After I posted this on Linkedin, multiple candidates reached out to me that (including a previous coworker) that they had this EXACT same experience, step by step. They were led on about the interview process, then steps were added, and then blindsided with this take home.
As I passed rounds, they added more interviews with no real explanation. The 4-step process progressed into a 7-step process, 8 if you count completing the take home challenge. They also required each interview to be scheduled on a separate day.
In the first call, the recruiter told me it was a 4-step interview process, with a take home that was “a few hours for wireframes.” I’m usually extremely hesitant to accept ANY take home, but they made it sound reasonable.
And that's only from candidates who have seen my post. Imagine how many more there actually are.
The fact this EXACT misleading process was used on others makes me doubt it's a "mistake"
@eightsleep
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It's 2024 and we are holding companies accountable, even in this economy.
Aside from designers being led on with this exact process, now I have engineers saying they ALSO went through this. Example brief: "Make a react native app and come up with new feature, then present to panel." They would get to the end then be told the role "pivoted."
@sweatystartup
After years of following, I’m extremely disappointed to see this kind of post. All of us know men hold vast majority wealth & equity in a patriarchal system. For a woman to keep and honor her family name, what is offensive abt this?
We all know what the insinuated message was.
My inclusive tech & product design community is almost at 1k!! Less than 10 away.
We chat about careers & give insider advice.
Planning to do focus sessions where we go on call and work together.
#productdesign
#siliconvalley
I got featured to share my story of how I broke into tech as a product designer, with no network, on Business Insider! As someone with a fine arts degree from the East Coast, this was the hardest career transition I've made.
1) Did you know that the greatest indicator of success is access to capital?
Yes tech twitter loves to talk about grit, character, etc. to justify how special founders are.
but underrepresented people, if given the chance, work just as hard if not more.
Such a demand for product designers to speak on Clubhouse! My club, Product Designers, hit over 3.6k members in less than 2 weeks of opening. Follow and dm me if you want to be a featured guest!
Their
#designchallenge
with brand guidelines: design their core experience (3+ features) & marketing. They were "looking" for candidates on
#angellist
for months, during the pandemic. And that's on
#designcommunity
being taken advantage of.
I did a video on how prop 22 is a bill introduced by Uber, Lyft, Doordash, Instacart, & Postmates and spent over $185M to campaign. It's clearly not for the ppl yet ppl still defending it. I'm tired yall. Also got a death threat. 😌
#siliconvalley
#voteno
When you share your (& other women's) experiences working in tech and you get the occasional man saying "you're tearing men down." Like it's not my fault this happened & yall look bad... K?
Do you ever just get really excited about the possibilities of your future and can't fall asleep at night because you're planning our every possible scenario 🙃
Design interviews are so subjective sometimes... one manager will place you as a senior yet another one will tell you to work on your basics.
I thought the work would speak for itself, but turns out they speaks differently to different people.
#productdesign
#ux
#truestory
does anyone ever have a great day then that one conversation with someone immediately triggers your imposter syndrome and now you're sitting rest of the day thinking about it. no? just me?
@DescriptApp
Draw with comments on specific video timestamps. And draft comments so if you click out of the comment, what you just wrote don’t get erased.
My club Product Designers (UX) hit over 1,000 users in 2 days! That's crazy. Join for weekly Q&A's with senior designers to get free mentorship as well as make new connections :) You can follow me as
@designalily
Should you feel guilty if someone schedules a meeting, says they'll send an invite, then don't and you miss the meeting? Because I live by my Google calendar now.
Anyone else struggling with these awkward situations?
@sweatystartup
It's so political that corps promote women & POC over ur boys despite more value + competence (ur friends believe, you're not sure).
But management is dominated by your boys in every industry? Def still true for sales.
Am I missing something here 😀 I am a regular reader
@stubblefriend
@jmarshallBKLYN
@kate_kassab
I get made fun of when I say yall I'm California but it's a tragedy we don't have a word like this in the English language! The equivalent of Vous in French or Vosotros in Spanish
I showed my brother Philip DeFranco just followed me on TikTok and he really said "who's that"
;____;
...is this what it feels like to be on the other side?
@joeydotdev
ugh you feel so bad when you forget, but at the same time it's like professional curtesy now you know? people are all living in meetings to meetings
@Suhail
Hi Suhail, would you mind elaborating on this point? How would you go about having this conversation so users are invested with "skin in the game"?
2) The people closest to the problems are often the most underrepresented.
Let's take a look at founders who are women. They have been stagnant at 2% for years.
Do we really think men are better suited to solve problems of women for women?
@jameswkennedy
@JuliaLipton
Thanks for the shoutout, Jay! Would love to grab coffee with you when things open in SF :)
Julia - would love to chat. My email is workalily
@gmail
.com
@CowvinZheng
3) To reiterate: I make ~$110 per hour or less (after SF tax and transaction fees). I also live in SF. I personally still pay for mentorship to this day, and it's significantly more than what I've earned. Again, I appreciate your feedback and hope this clarifies things.
@WallStPlayboys
I can respect and appreciate financial/career your advice as a woman, even though I'm not in your demographic. I challenge myself to hear other sides. Tweeting MRM is so... conventional for your demographic. Thought you looked beyond herd thinking
@Javpet
Yes! Next Tuesday at 2pm PST will be doing "Ask anything design" session with Jon, a Facebook product designer (event on calendar). It's also his birthday! Come celebrate and learn.
@JasonShen
He's training at level 7 right now, and my dad is coaching him. No idea on NCAA (I'm sure he wants to) but prolly not pro since my dad had that experience. When I told him about you in NCAA he went WHOAAA. His eyes got all big hahaha.
@brian_lovin
@marshallbock
You all mentioned if creating your own meetup is a great way to meet designers a new city... Confirmed, that's exactly what I did!