I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at athenahealth (Watertown, MA)
Interview
There were 4 interviews, each was an hour long and a 1:1. Three of the interviews were about conflict resolution, stakeholder management, and communication. The final interview was a case questions which I posted below.
Walking around the campus was great. It's a beautiful campus and there's a lot of care put into the environment. The floor to ceiling windows bring in wonderful amounts of sunshine.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The case question was as follows: You are a consultant being contacted by a manager owning a restaurant in North Dokota. The fracking industry has moved in and taken much of the available labor. The manager is interested in operating the store with as few staff as possible. What do you advise?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at athenahealth (Austin, TX) in Apr 2016
Interview
Made it to onsite interviews (3rd round) - team seemed generally disinterested both in me and their own jobs. Not sure why I was flown in. May be a small thing - but I would expect someone from the team to take the time to have lunch with a fly-in candidate (I was on my own for all meals).
HR/recruiting is very uncoordinated. Had to engage 3 to 4 different reps who did not seem to just pass the buck to each other. For my fly-in interviews was asked to go out the coming week, only to have HR take forever to get back to me so it pushed out a further week.
Interviewee also has to pay for flight and hotel, and wait for reimbursement - which seems like another uncoordinated (and interviewee unfriendly) process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to create a scheduling app for a individual traveling physician practitioner with a rural patient base
The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at athenahealth (San Jose, CA)
Interview
2 phone interviews followed by an in person. The in person was 4 hours long. Very nice people, but took them almost a month to get back to me. Not very prompt or professional
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you reduce the number of employees in a restaurant and replace them by automation/software
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at athenahealth (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2015
Interview
One of the worst experience I have ever had. I was contacted by their recruiter to schedule a phone screen. The phone screen went on well and was invited onsite. The onsite lasted a morning and was pretty straight forward and went really well. Nothing tough about the interviews. I dint hear back for about a week so I decided to write to their HR. No response. So I gave her a call. She apologized for the delay and also informed me that a different HR had participated in the interview feedback meeting. She asked me to get in touch with the other HR. I dint hear back a couple of weeks. In the mean time I got another offer. Since I really wanted to be in the health care industry, I decided to check back with them.
The process started all warm and nice and was dropped like a hot potato. Absolutely unprofessional attitude exhibited by the HR
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A case interview about designing an app. A very easy one