I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Melrose Public Schools (London, England) in Mar 2026
Interview
I took out my time to attend the interview with the IT manager. She seemed it would be a suprise to me that she was the only IT support engineer supporting their systems and ITSM desk. I was more suprised and concerned that I had to justify why use of the command line interface was important to an IT manager, who's supporting systems nationally for a special needs school. We had a lengthy interview and I didn't hear a word back which I found extremely unprofessional and made it a complete waste of time.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Melrose Public Schools (Woburn, MA) in May 2015
Interview
Interview was good. When I left, it seemed obvious that I would be hired. She asked me questions, I asked questions. I was given a tour of the facilities and interacted with the staff and children.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Melrose Public Schools
Interview
I was asked to come in for an interview and talked with the principal and four other teachers. They asked me a surprisingly few number of questions (about four) compared to what I experienced in other panel interviews. This might have been because it was at the end of the summer and they were tired and uninterested in coming in. I had to try to pack in information in each of my responses once I got the hint they wanted this to be quick, but I still feel like I could have said more.
I really liked the school's approach to learning, and tried to demonstrate my experience of this in the interview. I asked a lot of questions about them, which they seemed to like since it showed my interest.
Unfortunately, I had a feeling after leaving that I was only interviewed as perhaps a favor to the connection I had to the schools. There seemed to be a disinterest in what I was saying and showing (which was indicated to me by the phone use being done by one of the members during the interview). But I'm glad to have had the interview experience and opportunity to come in.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your experience with project-based learning?
What was your worst lesson and what did you do to fix it?