(Before the interview, I had already got in touch with my interviewer Steve Benson who is also the CEO on email multiple times and shared my digital marketing ideas/improvements which impressed him. So, this interview was more like a conversation than a testing scenario. Nevertheless, I was expecting this interview like a tech puzzle (like solve this code, what came before, an egg, or hen, how would you market this) which is usually a culture in San Francisco/Silicon valley based companies but what really happened amazed me! Let's see.)
1. Overall friendly process: He didn't treat me like a very student but a person/candidate who can bring tremendous change to the company.
2. Very positive attitude: that what you (interns) would do, would result in success and the ideas which I presented, he cared for them.
3. The process was calm and relaxed, more like a conversation with a coffee.
4. They want the interns to learn, get trained and contribute to the company.
5. It was fun, Steve has a good sense of humour: we had some laughs in between while discussing some common trends about the tech companies around SIlicon Valley.
6. He is also a good mentor, guide and teacher. This makes me feel that he would help train me for marketing skills and good future. Later, when I needed his advise to go for a marketing certification or not. He replied with a good explanation instead of common phrases like "if you feel, it can benefit us, go for it..." etc.
7. They take interns seriously: Steve told me that the company would learn from you (intern), from your international experiences from India, Singapore and Denmark. This would help the company in localization in future.