Pocket Gems interview questions

Terrible process. The phone call with the design director went great; the design exercise and communication surrounding it was a total disaster. The design challenge consists of spec work in the form of taking existing wireframes of the current product, re-working them in three low-res layouts and selecting the strongest layout for full execution with live assets. Spec work aside, communication with the recruiters was a painful process. The assignment packet I received was incomplete (missing images, copy); it took them days to get back to me about the missing assets (with the responses ranging from, “everything is there” to “oh the hiring manager must have removed them”). Once submitted, it took weeks to receive a no. The whole process from initial contact to rejection was three months.

Applied online and received a coding test the same day. They are very prompt with reviewing and replying. I gave this test back to back with another coding test, which was a huge mistake and caused me to not be able to pass all the test cases for this test.