Sticker Mule Production Artist interview questions

Applied online and received an email the following day to schedule first interview. Round 1, phone screen with HR, recruitment. Round 2, video interview with hiring managers . Video interview lasted approximately 35 minutes. Two days later, received email of non selection.

I applied for the job by completing the basic questions and information page on their application website and attaching a Cover Letter and Resume. I was contacted the same afternoon by one of the recruiters who requested to schedule a Zoom interview. I scheduled it for a Monday at 10 am. The interview was short and the questions were easy to understand and not over the top. The two interviewers were nice enough, but did not seem like they were excited or happy or interested in my success throughout the process which was slightly off-putting and made me more nervous. At the end of the call, they asked me if I had any questions. I asked four questions that were appropriately personal and asked them each to speak about what it was like to work for the company, if they enjoyed group dynamics, if there was room for growth in the company, etc. The same day, almost immediately after the interview, I received an email with a set of artworks and some FAQ's and a task list to complete. They asked me to return the exercises in a .zip file before Thursday. I completed the tasks by mid-day Tuesday. In my opinion, the tasks and the sheet were misleading. The instructions for each task were extremely vague and there wasn't an invitation from either of the recruiters to reach out with any questions about the tasks. The tutorials were over simplified and IMO not the best way to achieve the task requests. So I took a bit of a risk and did mostly what the instructions in the tutorial said to do with some customization built in (that still adhered to the rules set for customers on their current FAQ pages at StickerMule.com). I find that different vendors and companies like their production files set up differently so it would have been much more valuable for the practical portion of this interview to have a more detailed but still straight forward set of rules that align with how a normal production file would be set up for a customer project. So after turning this in on Tuesday (via email) I never received correspondence back confirming that the recruiter received my files. On Thursday, the proposed due date, I sent a follow up email inquiring as to whether they received the files and opening the door for them to reach out to me if they hadn't received them somehow. They replied acknowledging by submission and letting me know they would get back to me at the end of the week. On Friday at about 5pm, they did reach out with the same response as others have mentioned; they were moving forward with another candidate, they appreciated my time in applying and then they encouraged me to sign up for a Sticker Mule account with this email address and then they would apply my $50 credit to the account. Overall, I thought the process was streamlined well and the recruiters were extremely responsive but a little clinical (which makes sense because their values seem to be routed in logic, decision making and understated empathy rather than canned optimism). I sent back a follow up email inquiring as to what I could have done to better meet their expectations and thanked them for the opportunity to interview and learn about the company and letting them know I would still like to be considered as a candidate in the future.