Illuminate Education interview questions

A great first impression, then you see this organization's true colors. Submitted resume on a Friday, received an email the following week to schedule a phone interview. Phone interview was standard and lasted about 15 minutes. Then had a Skype interview with the head of the team I'd be working on. Immediately after, I was notified that they'd like to bring me in for an in-person interview. Up until this point, communication was swift and I was very appreciative! I was asked to complete a personality assessment. Then, they sent over some pre-interview "homework." I was asked to put together a 20-minute presentation. I spent the entire weekend working on this. Came to the office and immediately began the presentation. Subsequently grilled by a team of managers on my methodology, conclusions, etc. I respect that they are trying to be thorough but it felt excessive, like I was interviewing at Facebook or Google. By the way, this was for an entry level position. After the presentation, several days go by and the recruiter tells me it's a no, but they'd like to consider me for another position. I come to the office AGAIN and meet one on one with the head of that team for an hour. Radio silence. Two months later, after emailing back and forth, I'm finally told that the position is no longer available due to "budget cuts." What a lame excuse. To be clear, I'm not upset that I wasn't hired. Although their interview process was indeed more grueling than I thought it needed to be, I think it was fair. My issue is with the run-around and excuses I got after they decided I was no longer a viable candidate. I invested a lot of time into the process, and just wanted to be treated with respect. My sense is that this company hooks people with talk about their "amazing culture" and the ability to wear flip flops to work. But once you look past the shiny objects, you realize they're just another corporation that doesn't give two you-know-whats about employees, job candidates, or customers.

There were 4 rounds. 1. Telephonic interview : purely technical, it was of an average difficulty. 2. Face to face technical : basically they had asked about the current project and whether I have good knowledge on whatever I had worked on. 3. Lead technical : This was quite unexpected. They had called for a meeting with HR, and an impromptu technical interview happened, it was not an easy one. 4. HR discussion and meeting with MD. Interview process was good.