I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Osmo in Aug 2025
Interview
The process lasted for about 1.5 months. 1st round was a recruiter screen. 2nd round was a hiring manager interview (30 minutes), followed by a take-home assignment that had to be completed in 24 hours, and finally a 3rd Round consisting of a lab tour and 5 face-to-face interviews. The 5 interviewers were 1:1 conversations about background, and interest in OSMO.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why are you interested in this position. What project management tools do you use.
It was pleasant from the recruiter conversation and then there was a Zoom call with the hiring manager. He is new to Osmo as well as this is a start up company, all Google employees work here. The position description did not fit in with the requirements. Description stated all of the tasks the FM will be responsible for at their brand new NJ manufacturing building and site, yet to be determined. However, the interview questions focused on what I would do if I had to have HVAC installed in the plant what steps I would take. This position in reality is asking for a Facilities Manager to come in and fit out an empty shell of a building, something they need architects, engineers and project managers for, not an FM. Blindsided and unclear of their own expectations is what I would classify it as.
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Question 1
Tell me about an experience you have had with OSHA
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Osmo (New York, NY) in Feb 2024
Interview
Two video calls with upper management, followed by a take-home assignment that had to be completed in 32 hours, and finally a lab tour and 5 face-to-face interviews. While the video calls were fairly casual, the take-home assignment and face-to-face interviews were hard -- the latter being an entirely behavioral interview (almost no questions about my resume or past experience). I felt that the right answers to a lot of their questions depended on study goals and variables and on the testing constraints, and I was not told what these study goals, variables, and constraints were (see example below). Providing a bit more context before asking questions would have resulted in a much more useful and objective interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When analyzing sensory data, one option is to weight each panelist's data equally; another - to give zero weights to all responses deviating from the modal response. Between these two extremes, where does your approach to data analysis fall and why?