The interview process was typical and straight forward. However, there was a 3 round series to meet with upper management and also the team I’d be directly working with to be sure it was a good fit. The interview questions were typical and more so conversational.
I applied online. I interviewed at Houzz in Jan 2021
Interview
General overview of past experiences and goals. It was just with a hiring manager so it was one on one. The tone was relatively casual with difficult questions. Definitely study the company background
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Questions range in scope from previous experience, opinion on valuable skill, response to scenarios
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Houzz (Irvine, CA) in Jun 2019
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter for this position and was not given any background on the company. I did some research before the company but it seemed like the interviewers were not interested in me as a person or my experience. For the first interview, I interviewed with five different managers which made it tiring and an incredibly long and grilling process. I was there for 3 hours. I felt like I repeated myself with each manager. I had described my previous workplace as old-fashioned where they wanted you to keep your head down since they didn't welcome new ideas and one interviewer replied with, "Same goes for here" which was discouraging and makes me not want to work for Houzz. I didn't feel like they wanted to know more but just assumed I was bad-talking on my former employer but my former employer has a 2-star rating on Glassdoor whom I sued and also received settlement for. It seems that their Associate Buyer role is a lot like sales as my impression is that they have to make a lot of cold-calls for leads and to convince their leads to put their products on the Houzz marketplace. I also have a negative outlook of their company future and seriously doubt it will be successful when they try to go public. Won't be applying again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you feel comfortable doing a 60 slide presentation?
Associate Buyer applicants have rated the interview process at Houzz with 3.3 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 44.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Houzz as a Associate Buyer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
IQ intelligence test: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
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