Spoke with the recruiter after she contacted me. Was told I had all their qualifications and more. Emailed back and forth for 2 weeks while waiting for VP to return from vacation. Went to meet VP in person when most of company was working from home. VP wasn't there. Receptionist had no knowledge of my appointment. Interview was casual. Easy to talk to. Very few questions. Didn't cover whole history. Spent less than an hour for a director level position with the hiring manager. Got a decline note a few days later with standard recruiter message. Not at all personalized, which was upsetting given the fact that they sought me and we spent weeks in conversations. Whole experience set a tone for what it would have been like to work there. Not a good one.

The first step was a phone screen with an internal recruiter who was very professional and personable. I then had a phone interview with the hiring manager, and progressed to an onsite 360 interview with five people in four 30-minute sessions. I loved the idea of the 360 interview - it says a lot about the value Corra sees in each associate. I then met face-to-face with the hiring manager, who had been out of town for our phone interview, and had one final interview with the CEO. Did it take a while? Sure, but really not that long, and Corra get a very good feel for me and me for Corra. I graded the interview as "difficult" because you have to be prepared to go outside your usual expectations of the process - you won't meet someone from HR for 20 minutes, then get an hour with a hiring manager to hear "tell me about your background" and "what's a challenge that you've faced?" The process kind of forces you to be yourself, which can be difficult when you're used to the usual you say A, then I say B, then we shake hands interview format. But it's a good difficult.