UI/UX interview – Stages involved in hiring UX Designers

UI/UX interview – Stages involved in hiring UX Designers

UI/UX interview is a platform that gives many designers a big opportunity to showcase their skills to the corporate world and compete with the best designers in the current market.

For a UX interview, it’s always better to be well prepared so that you will have confidence, a complete understanding of the topic, and also a quick revision of the topics that you had learned and worked on in the past.

Most of the stages involved in a UX interview are:

• Brief meeting with the HR
• Technical and Non-technical interview with the Hiring Manager
• Panel interview with one or many department leads

A brief meeting with the HR

• Whenever you apply for the role or a position through any platform (Naukri, LinkedIn, Timesjobs), it is always the HR or the Business Development team that will have a key look at your profile to check if you are eligible for the role along with your background, education, past work experience, and communication skills.
• This round will not have any questions from the UI/UX technical point of view and will be a general test to see how well you handle things overall and your way of communication.
• In this meeting, it is also key that you do not touch deeply on all the technical points that are related to the UI/UX design.
• After this round, based on your performance, HR will hand over your profile to the hiring manager for further process.

Remember:

• If you are rejected, always make sure that you ask the reason for your rejection to HR. Sometimes you will not hear back from them but most of the time they will mention the reasons for rejection.
• This will be a learning step for you to crack many more interviews further.

Technical and Non-technical interview with the hiring manager-

This is the key step in the hiring process and you will get to know here if you can make it through or not in joining the company.

Once the HR shortlists your profile from the first round of the interview, it is then forwarded to the hiring manager.

• In this round, the hiring manager will test if you have the skills that are required for a particular position.
• This round will consist of a few personal questions in the beginning and later will be in-depth questions regarding UI/UX concepts in general.
• The hiring manager can ask questions regarding the subject matter of the UI/UX design concepts and also try to check your creativity in convincing other people on why one should go forward with your chosen designs.
• This will check your total understanding of the concepts and how well you present them.

Examples of some of the commonly asked questions are:

• What are wire Framing and prototyping?
• Explain the complete cycle and process of UX/UI design.
• Difference between graphic design and UX design

For a complete list of commonly asked questions, please click the link below

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• It’s obvious that here you will miss out on a few questions or answer them wrong, but it’s common and not to worry as the hiring manager will check your confidence as to how you will back yourself up in times when the plan does not work and how well you handle pressure situations.

After this round, based on your performance your interviewer will evaluate your profile and if selected will take you to the third round which is the panel interview with the team leaders and heads of the company and will include an HR manager.

In case you are omitted after this round, it suggests that you do not have in-depth technical knowledge of the required matter or your answers do not match as per the requirements of the hiring manager.

If you are rejected after this round makes sure to ask the hiring manager about the mistakes that you have committed so that you can learn them and not repeat them in further interviews.

The final round of panel interview-

This is similar to that of the previous rounds of the interview and will not contain any technical based questions on the UI/UX subject matters.

• This round you will be introduced to the heads and team leaders and is just to take a final call to see if you are suitable for this role and if your skills are helping the company in the future.
• Your ability and skills will have been previously checked and evaluated before, but this round will be to check how well you are motivated along with carrying yourself with your team leaders and the co-employees.
• It is always important in this round that you take down certain points regarding the project and write down a brief synopsis of the meeting.
• At this stage of the interview, it is necessary for the candidate to ask about what projects that he/she will be working on, insight on the team members, clients, other procedures, and guidelines before getting onboarded.

The main reason for this round is to-

• Validate how strongly you stick to your point, plans, and how you can present it to your co-employees and managers.
• How you handle the disagreements in solving the designs of the business people and clients.
• How well you handle your customers, attention, analytical skills, and other problem-solving abilities.

If you are confident enough with your answers here you will be selected further and hired onto the company.

Now, As you know the interview process and how it happens, this is a key guide for you to prepare accordingly and crack your dream interviews along with taking the dream designer job.