This was, by far, the most unprofessional recruitment process I've ever taken part in, from start to finish. I applied to an Indeed posting, and about a week later, I got a call to schedule a phone interview for the next day, which was a Friday. The Friday comes and goes and no call. I call the company on Monday to follow-up and am told the lady who was supposed to call me was sick. Ok, no problem. I get a call from her about an hour later. The phone interview was easy. Basic questions like, what are your strengths, greatest accomplishment, etc.".
I ask the person when I will know if I will be selected for the next round, and she has absolutely no idea. I ask for an estimate, she says she has to ask the manager and doesn't know. I found that weird. Then about a week later, I get an email to schedule an in-person interview. Again, the interview was incredibly easy, but very strange. He asked me questions that seemed like he pulled them from a Reader's Digest article on interviewing. It was weird. I was asked how long I intend to stay at the company, something that, along with the awful Glassdoor reviews, reinforced the idea that this place has high turnover and people don't enjoy working here. Then, he made me do the Myers-Briggs personality test and then another personality test. I felt like I was registering for an online dating profile rather than interviewing for a job.
I also had to do a typing test. It was one of those free ones that come up when you Google "typing test" lol. After the interview's done, he tells me he will let me know in a week if I get the job. We talk about the pay (which is borderline criminal considering the work), the workday being from 8:30-5, and the benefits package among other things. That day passes and no call or email. I call him the next day and he tells me I scored very high, but that they offered the job to someone else. He then tells me someone is leaving her position and that he will send me an offer tomorrow. Tomorrow comes and I get an offer, and we agree on a start date. A contract is sent to me, but peculiarly, there is no mention or detailing of the benefits package. I ask him to kindly send it back to me with the relevant benefit information outlined in the contract, as is common practice. A day later and radio silence. I call him and he says he's waiting on HR to update the contract with the information I requested. He's kind of vague and incoherent, so I explicitly ask him if I indeed do have the job. He says yes. I confirm, yet again, if the job does indeed have benefits, he says yes. He reiterates the only hold up is waiting for HR to update the contract. Great! A week passes and nothing. I email him, he says he's following up with HR and he'll update me when he hears back. Not wanting to come off as pushy, and knowing he told me a week prior I had the job, I sit back and just wait for him to get back to me.
A few days later, and it's a **week** before our agreed upon start date, but I haven't been updated as promised. So I email him again, requesting an update on the status of the contract. He replies to me saying there's no open position. The email was like 10 words in length. For him to formally offer me the position with a contract, verbally confirm to me I had the position, and then a week later turn around and tell me there is no opening is so incredibly unprofessional, I can't believe it. Not only did he tell me I had the job on two occasions, I had to hound him for over a week to get the news that I actually didn't get the job. The miscommunication and disregard for my time was so blatantly disrespectful. Can you imagine how they'd treat their employees? All in all, I feel like the less-than-stellar reviews on here from employees only scratch the surface of how poorly managed this company is. I'd stay away if I were you.
