Okay to begin with, Amazon.com is my favorite website so I was very excited when I got an email and call they wanted to interview me. The first interview was by the current EA who said she was being promoted to Office Manager so the position needed to be filled. She called me and spoke to me for about 40 minutes asking me basic administrative questions along with all the questions u see listed online. After the call she said she wanted me to speak to the EA in Seattle and if that worked out, Id come in and if we were all on the same page, they would bring me on. .....
That day the recruiter in Seattle says shes setting me up with a second interview with the other girl in Seattle. So I get the date and time which is two days later and expect to be interviewed by her. So.....I get the call and low and behold its the same girl that interviewed me the first time asking me to tell her all about myself lol. The same girl who I spoke to for 40 minutes completely forgot she even spoke to me two days later!!!!!! So Im like "so and so, do you realize we just spoke for 40 min and this call was supposed to be with the person in Seattle?" Her response was "ugggh....oh.....ahhhh.....I dont know why Im calling you"...now mind you this is the girl who got a "promotion"....
okay...so back to square one, the recruiter then sets me up to speak to with the correct person in two days. The call comes, we talk about the same thing for 40 minutes and than Im told im allowed to ask only one question. So I get another call a day later saying that the interviews went well and they want me to come in for an in person interview. So I get an email saying Ill be interviewing with like 7 ppl, none of whom would be the person Id actually be working for! So I go in for the interview and see this girl sitting behind reception talking on the phone about personal problems. She wouldn't even put the phone down to see what I was there for so I had to interrupt her. So she says fine, and goes back to talking about her problems on the phone. Never said hello or introduced herself, nothing.
So I first interview for 40 min with some lady who does projects. Same standard interview questions. Than I interview via video conference with another assistant who I already spoke to for an hour on the phone asking the same exact questions looking at her notes as if she forgot everything from the first interview. Than I come out and some lady says to the receptionist "here take so and so to lunch" turns out the rude receptionist was the same girl who interviewed me on the phone and than forgot about me the second time lol. This is who they promoted lol.
So we go to get a bite and bring it back and we sit and eat. Wasn't impressed with her in any way, shape or form and that wasn't a good sign since I'd have to work closely to her. I don't care for rude people since I'm the total opposite. She didn't even tell me what the job entailed other than travel which the travel agent does lol. Than I get another interview with some guy who says "I'm not in your dept I just am a good interviewer"...So he proceeds to ask the same exact questions I just answered with 4 other ppl and than says "give a weakness and you better NOT make it sound as its a positive!" So Im like okay dude calm down, its an interview, not a cure for cancer....so after answering the same exact questions now into hour 6, I than met with the HR lady who said "I'm your contact person going forward and we will set up an interview with the person youll actually work for" ....Never heard a word back so I emailed and got the standard "Were going in a different direction" which was actually good news because I would never have taken the job. The whole interview process for an admin, 8 hours total, is beyond ridiculous especially when none of the ppl are the person you would actually work for. I found the interviewers to be very rude with an "im god and your not" attitude so whats appealing about that? Why didn't they just put everyone in the same room instead of asking the same exact questions over and over. Please...it was a joke. I left there with such a bad taste in my mouth, I was fed up at that point. I didn't even want the job anymore and I was so excited two weeks prior. I should have interviewed with the person Id actually be assisting and maybe one or two others for 20 min each..done. This whole process was a very unprofessional and very unnecessary process for everyone in my opinion.
