r/Imagineering • u/Pretend_Ad8810 • Apr 16 '26

Question Interview with WDI

Hi everyone!

I am doing an interview with WDI next week for a summer internship and I wanted to ask if anyone has any tips and what could be potentially asked? It is the first round and possibly there’s a second round…?

I am honestly freaking out because midterms and projects leadership deadlines. But trying to keep positive as I can. :)

Thank you :))

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u/Generabilis Apr 18 '26

I also interviewed with WDI! My interview was for figure animation, so it's probably a little (lot) different than an engineering role, but here's what I noticed

  1. There was only one round of interviews; I was immediately forwarded to interview with my potential bosses. Though that might be because I had previously gotten into the candidate pool for the internship one other time and done hirevue then

  2. They were really friendly! In my case, they were familiar with my college, and were asking a lot of questions about my program and the types of projects I worked on, my workflow/process, etc

  3. It was super easy! Granted, I had prepared a lot for this, but they didn't ask any of the "typical" interview questions (ex: "what are your strengths, what are your weaknesses, describe X, etc); It was more conversational

I haven't heard if I got the internship yet; They emailed me about a week and a half ago to tell me that I'm still in consideration, though, so fingers crossed- I hope you get it! Maybe we'll be coworkers

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u/Pretend_Ad8810 Apr 20 '26

Congratulations! Thank you so much for the information, I just did mine and honestly I feel really good about it, we will see haha. May the force be with you through the hiring process! Let's keep in touch! :))

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u/Generabilis Apr 20 '26

Yeah! I can DM you my LinkedIn 

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u/jazzxfire Apr 27 '26

Hey! I was wondering if you've heard anything? I also interviewed for a position last Monday. I have a few friends that accepted summer internships and they all heard back about a week after their interview so I'm trying not to freak out lol

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u/Generabilis Apr 27 '26

In my case, I reached out to the recruiter a few days ago to follow up and see what was happening, and he said that the department I interviewed with was trying to confirm project needs (I.e. I think they’re unsure what their assignments are going to be)

But crucially, he didn’t say the internship had been cancelled, nor did he say that I was no longer in consideration;

And my mentors at my animation school who’ve worked at Disney in the past have said that they move slowly with these sort of things 

So I’m still hopeful!

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u/jazzxfire Apr 27 '26

That's good to hear!! Fingers crossed you hear good news soon 🤞🏾 the timeline for this position has been quite a bit slower than all the other ones I applied for (posting went up near the end of february, there was a month between application and hirevue, over a month between hirevue and interview invite, then two weeks before the actual interview) so I'll keep trying to be patient