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      Media Buyer Interview

      Sep 21, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Los Angeles, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

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      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at MediaAlpha (Los Angeles, CA) in Jun 2021

      Interview

      Was dragged through nine separate interviews for the Los Angeles position only to be told that I was qualified but wasn't a good fit because I didn't vibe with the team. They also gave me the first eight interviews during a two week process, then made me wait an entire extra week for the last interview because the hiring manager had to go on vacation so the entire process took a month and about 7 hours of interviews. This was also after he already interviewed me twice, but needed a third interview to decide we didn't vibe. During each of these interviews he paced back and forth in front of his laptop camera where all I could see were his basketball shorts and he would talk for 10 minutes straight without asking any questions. I have suspicions they wanted information from me without paying consulting fees because they had each team member ask me my processes in detail. Not sure if this is the standard policy, but to make someone go through nine separate interviews during a month long process just to not hire them is not just unprofessional and rude, but extremely cruel.

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      Question 1

      They had each team member separately ask me the same questions about my specific processes of media buying strategies. I may have answered the same questions 5 times during my interview process.
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      Hello, I'm truly sorry your interview experience was not a positive one. However, we appreciate the feedback, as we are always looking for ways to improve our interview process, and your feedback has prompted the team to re-examine what they're doing. If you would like to share more information about your experience, we would welcome the additional feedback. Please contact us at peopleops@mediaalpha.com or vikki@mediaalpha.com

      MediaAlpha interviews FAQs

      • Candidates applying for Media Buyer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at MediaAlpha overall takes an average of 10 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at MediaAlpha as a Media Buyer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Presentation:  50%

        Phone interview:  50%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Technical Program Manager(3) ;
        2. Manager(2) ;
        3. Senior Software Engineer(2) ;
        4. Software Engineer(2) .


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