Q&A With Poll Everywhere Employees

What are the biggest challenges that the company have? What goals are you trying to achieve? What are they doing currently to resolve the issues? What works and what doesn't work? What is the plan of action to solve the issues? When is the implementation of the plan? How do you solve issues that are not foreseen? Any emergency plan? What are the resources? Who are the key people needed to help solve the issues? How do you assess the effectivity of your solutions? Who holds the people dealing with the issues accountable? What is the timeframe to resolve the issues? How do you measure your progress? How do you know if you achieve your goal?

That depends entirely on the role, but you can expect some questions about your time at previous companies (expect to provide example stories about teamwork, etc.). You'll probably also spend some time working with the interviewers on a small project, call, or task, depending on what you're interviewing for. You might even end up having an unscripted lunch with the team.

Targeted and purposeful questions to get to know the customers better are the kind of questions during the interview.

Like everything else at Poll Everywhere, it's weird, but in a good way. Expect to meet some very smart, very kind people who will try very hard to not make things awkward for you. Our recruiting team's number one goal is to build an inclusive culture, so we standardize all of our interview processes, role by role, to weed out bias. We also vet our questions against best practices to remove preferential question types that unfairly favor one group over another.

Wear a business casual attire, no wrinkled clothing, no jeans, no rubber shoes, no open toed shoes or sandals. Look the part.

PollEvians tend to wear whatever the heck they want. About half go for a polished, urban chic with dark jeans, comfortable shoes, a jacket and tshirt. The other half wear hoodies and jeans and sneakers. I'd recommend aiming for the former, maybe with a button down shirt or a nice sweater, dark jeans, maybe a blazer if you feel good in one.

I wish I knew more people like connections from the inside to give me what to expect so that I could've blended more easily to the culture and that I don't have to take the longest route to places when I know the short cuts had I known those people from the inside earlier.

Show that you have the interest by shadowing first a great employee for a few hours or a day, or you can volunteer first if you want for a few days. Put in your resume some of the related experiences you had with your previous jobs or volunteer jobs. Get your previous boss to recommend you.

Yes, they get volunteers who are willing to share their talents and willing to contribute to a good cause. Some of them just want to improve their skills in certain areas. By volunteering they develop more skills and talents that give them satisfaction and more marketable skills.

They have been very supportive and understanding. They also challenge my abilities by giving me tasks from easy to difficult.

Sales team are cohesive and has each other's back, flexible with their time and choices of vacation times. They take turns taking vacation so that they can focus at the mission of the company.

Healthcare options varies depending on the needs of the employee.

Company outings are like family outings. They try to celebrate birthdays of employees on occasions by doing the outing during some employees birthday. That adds to some more reason to celebrate as a "family."

It's intense but fun, very immersive and interactive based on real life case studies.

The most important soft skills to be successful at Poll Everywhere is the ability to connect to the customers in a deeper level, knows and trusts the product, gains the trust of the customer, that makes the customer trust the product and then trust the company.

Vision insurance has variety of choices depending on what the customer needs and can afford to pay for monthly premiums.

Internship program has a mix of intense and more relaxed atmosphere depending on the areas of the training that is being focused on. It's like building muscles to make you stronger during intense training and then the recovery period follows briefly , followed again by the intense training.

Paid holiday vacations

Poll everywhere is innovative in a way that they can create new solutions to an evolving needs and habits of the customers.

HR issues are handled meticulously by gathering information from the problematic situation, identifying and understanding the root cause of the issues, planning and designing solutions, implementing the plan to solve the issues and reviewing the solution if they were effective in solving the issues.

Sensitive to customer's needs and concerns, knows how the services can benefit the customers, speaks the language of the customers.

It's not the highest in class, but definitely competitive. Salaries are based on an annual industry standards report, location, experience, etc., to protect against discrimination.

The pace and scope of work can feel daunting sometimes. We're a very team-positive bunch, though. Not a lot of conflict or backbiting, although it's sometimes we have to pause and discuss if it's unclear who owns what deliverable or metric. As a company we value a healthy work/life balance, so it's rare that we spend late night hours on something. That said, we do sometimes pull out all the stops when there's just too much to get done in a 50-hour week.

We support each other, take up slack when someone has too much on their plate, work fast, and manage a lot of stories/channels/tactics both separately and together. It's a lot of introverts working together like introverts do, mostly on their own, but toward a shared goal. We're a growing team, so things change fast, but even with all the changes we still like each other, seek to grow, and look out for one another.

Poll Everywhere as a whole is big on independence and giving everyone a voice. Marketing is that way, too, but increasingly the team is aiming toward shared goals. Leadership is good about setting goals, making sure everyone knows what they own, and then letting them get it done without a lot of interference.

Generous and flexible. It's a relief to know I can take the time off when I need to, without any hassle. Just make sure your bases are covered, tell the right people you're taking off, and do it.

Peer to peer bonuses, flat bonus, transparency, and the bonuses paid as 401K profit sharing are bigger than any place I've seen.