Check out your Company Bowl for anonymous work chats.
Bowls
Get actionable career advice tailored to you by joining more bowls.
Followed companies
Stay ahead in opportunities and insider tips by following your dream companies.
Job searches
Get personalized job recommendations and updates by starting your searches.
HOK interviews FAQs
Design Professional applicants have rated the interview process at HOK with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Design Professional roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at HOK overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at HOK as a Design Professional according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 25%
Presentation: 25%
Group panel interview: 25%
Phone interview: 13%
One on one interview: 13%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
Great conversation with leadership and management.
Easy going and pleasant.
Genuinely interested in a person's career goals and aligning individual goals with the position available.
Touched upon on upcoming projects and future plans for the studio.
Sincere advice as well for upcoming young professional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Introduce yourself.
What are you looking for in a role and in a company?
Current and expected salary?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Are you interviewing with other firms?
Two rounds of interview with different team members, be prepared to go in person for the second round. People were friendly and eager to share. Good benefits but the pay offered was too low for the LA location, especially for people with post-grad experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe one of your projects and how you practiced team management and coordination.
I applied online. I interviewed at HOK (Hong Kong) in Jul 2025
Interview
Generally smooth and friendly talk with design director and associate. Whole process 15 mins with 12 mins just me talking. (Means they don’t wanna hire you…) No any response and feedback after the interview. Don’t know why they contacted me. Not worthy preparing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Self-introduction
Short introduction to previous projects
Questions about skills
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at HOK
Interview
They scheduled one online technical interview session for me with two team members, mostly discussing technical concepts to evaluate my understanding of them, and then an offer was sent shortly after that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Engineering basic design concepts on simple examples, and to discuss the solution steps.