Discussion Archive: February 2011

MakeMyTrip Design Challenge

Why this Design Challenge?

You might have heard of MakeMyTrip. We’re hopeful you’re even a customer that has bought from us. Well, over 3M paying customers have bought from us! If you’re a product or a design professional, I’m sure you’ve had ideas such as “why don’t they do it this way or that way”. Well, here’s your chance to get in the door and help transform India’s leading Online Travel Company into an even more delightful experience.

Got Talent?

Re: [IxDA] design exercises and/or portfolio review during interview

You're right on one level: if you're asking them to do legitimate work on the problems you are currently working on, then you should pay them for the time (whether you adopt their solution or not!).

But I think most of us would advocate for a sample design task not related to the specific work being hired for: we want to see how you attack a problem more than the answer you get. (Just like high school math class: show your work.) Let us see how you do things you do.

Showing a portfolio largely demonstrates completed work.

how to design collaboratively in an interview

This is an off-shoot of the earlier topic on giving a design exercise in an interview. Several people mentioned making this as realistic as possible; for example, if the design process is collaborative on the hiring team, it should be collaborative during the interview.

That makes sense, but I'm not sure how to go about it. (Maybe this is why Jared said it is hard to do this effectively.) Let's say that I am interviewing the candidate. It might be hard for me to be a collaborator on the design exercise since I'm trying to evaluate the candidate.

Salary Requirements in Austin, Texas

Hi there,

I had my first interview with a company who is very much interested in me. I am originally from Boston, MA and I'm currently living in Spain. The company is in Austin, TX. They wanted my salary requirements but I'm really not sure what to give them. Based on the research I've done It seems that 62k would be an accurate figure. As an intern in Boston I made 33/hour or about 67k per year equivalent. I have 2 years of experience (2 internships in Human Factors) and a Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering specializing in Human Factors Engineering.