I had 3 rounds of interviews (3rd being the final) for a role that took a week or two between them then when I was told it’d be another week to make a final decision but it ended up being another 2 weeks because their priorities shifted along with the tasks this person would be doing. Today I receive a rejection message and always the, “if something opens up we’d love to consider you again” line. I feel like I dodged something here... something just doesn’t feel right for some reason. It seems there’s a lot of this going lately in general but I don’t think it should be happening in the middle of an interview process. I guess I’m grateful I wasn’t totally ghosted. It just didn’t feel like they really knew what they were looking for or wanted.

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1. AnonymousAugust 8,2024 at 10:15PM UTC

   I am finding that when i go through the whole interviewing process, then also having a muti person panel interview, if I didn't get the job, I try to see it as a great "practice interview". I am glad you saw the silver lining to this, Wishing you all the best with finding your next career path and adventure, and going with your gut feeling on this!

2. AnonymousAugust 9,2024 at 3:23PM UTC

   Thank you! That’s all you can do….see the good and it happened for a positive reason. Just was t the right door.

   I’ve had a panel interview recently and it was not good. It was like a bad version of Hollywood squares with people being totally disengaged, chewing gum, playing with their phone, web browsing and doing other things besides paying attention to the conversation, it was a panel of 5 well supposed to be the one that didn’t show up actually booked the meeting and said after booking it said she’d be there and she was the dept manager. Only one person spoke and asked questions. That one person had to badger the others to ask a question. The questions were just dumb questions that could have been answered if they bothered to read my resume. Like if I’ve used excel or have ever used Salesforce (I even worked there!) I tried asking questions of each of them based on their role, and got lazy short answers. It felt like none of them really wanted to be there as if they were forced. If someone is not going to be attentive and present for the interview, then they shouldn’t even be there to begin with. If these are the people I’d have worked with, I think I’d be annoyed a lot.

   I see every interview (when I’ve gotten one as they’ve gotten more difficult to even obtain lately) as a learning experience. You learn to ask better more revealing questions about why the role is open in the first place, and if they have any insecurities about hiring you/ if there’s any doubts they have that you’re able to fulfill the core needs of the role and team,

   it’ll be a year this month this year that I’ve been looking. I’ve had interviews but have run the gamut of ghosting, bait and switches, hiring freezes, low ball wages (1/3 less than a year ago) and just terrible mismanaged interviews. It’s an absolute dumpster fire the whole process… if I have to fill out another workday application after I’ve already uploaded my resume I am going to SCREAM!

3. AnonymousAugust 9,2024 at 12:48PM UTC

   Sometimes, the absolutely perfect candidate for the company, not the job, comes along and employer will mold the position to fit that candidate.

4. AnonymousAugust 9,2024 at 2:30PM UTC

   Not in this case. They just didn’t agree on what the priorities were and based on what the Dow just did. Too many chefs in the kitchen. My take based on the jd that changed twice and had other tasks added in the interview from each person I spoke to, something was off. Also I’m also thinking it was a more jr role and more customer service focused when my skills are more data and analytical focused ( although that was in the jd.) in the interview. It was also strange that pretty much all of the questions of the first two interviews were off the wall / personality questions not having anything to do directly with skills or tasks from jd. In the final interview was asked how I was about doing repetitive monotonous tasks like filling out lots of forms for customer new accounts and how I stay motivated doing such tasks and ensure accuracy. More questions about accuracy, ability to type accurately and proofreading. The data person I spoke to I had a good discussion though on analytics, dashboard generation and task management. So… after that last convo would that indicate a data entry/ customer service focus to you? It did me.

5. AnonymousAugust 9,2024 at 2:45PM UTC

   It sounds like you're really disappointed that you didn't get the job. So a few things could have happened:

   -You were a good candidate but they found someone who was a better fit

   -Their needs changed (not sure I'd be critical of this, it happens all the time) and they took the opportunity to make updates to the JD

   -They shifted mid-stream in the interview process

   You then went on to say that the position was too junior for you.

   I'm not sure if I'd categorize this a dodging a bullet. They went another direction. As someone else said, you got more interview experience of out this.

   Can't say for sure if something was "off" about your experience. Things didn't turn out your way, they weren't able to make an offer.

   Many of us on this board have interviewed at dozens of places before landing someplace. We could nitpick each of these experiences to find some wrong or off with it. This one wasn't a fit. The job search is a numbers game and you're now one interview closer to fining your next role.

6. AnonymousAugust 9,2024 at 4:27PM UTC

   I think anytime that you get to the end stage and you’ve been unemployed for almost a year it would be disappointing no matter for what job it was.

   Yes too junior for what their priorities changed to. It went from more of a data and process improvement driven role to a cs data entry role. Based on the second interview with the vp of marketing who was focused on data, analytics and process improvement to a customer service data entry focused one by the third interview final. So that shift although I’d not have a problem with doing that, salary range would be lower with a cs type role than data analytics process improvement role. With the economic uncertainty of late I’m assuming they had to prioritize where they needed the most help with budget consideration. Which I totally get. I guess getting that far in the process is always disappointing no matter what it is. However, it taking 57 days seemed a too long for something I was told needed filling immediately. Larger company I didn’t get a hire notice until 3 months later and a smaller company 3 weeks. But have been hired a day after interviewing once before as well at a university in management. But I guess internal issues and bureaucracy can lengthen any process.

7. AnonymousAugust 9,2024 at 8:13PM UTC

   You have a lot of situational awareness about this interview process and the path that it took. You will find something soon, I totally understand how frustrating these lengthy searches can be as I experienced it myself! I was unemployed for about 18 months and applied to prob 100 jobs. Got a ton of interviews and invitations back and it took what felt like forever to finally get an offer. Fast forward one year and I applied for another job, just to test the waters. It was a single application and I wasn't looking anywhere else. That one application turned into a job offer and I'm still there! Best wishes to you.

8. AnonymousAugust 9,2024 at 3:05PM UTC

   That happened to me at a hs I was working at three times! After that I quit. The last straw was when I was helping the account manager with her job as she was overloaded and I was there after school waiting for my ex who was a teacher that she recommended me for the position she supervised with her that opened up. I already knew managerial accounting so it was an easy transition and she’d really not have to train me. I find out they hired some basketball coach’s wife who has zero experience in accounts payable or any kind of accounting. So she had to be trained to do everything!

   honestly though, in this incident, I was over qualified for what they changed their priorities to, I don’t think it was some kind of nepotism. Also it could be that they could pay someone less for doing customer service than analytics and data managment which probably was put more so on a back burner until a later time. Also I did indicate I was looking for real growth and upward mobility which probably didn’t fit with a data entry customer service role. It’s a smaller company so they’d want to keep someone in that role for quite some time. Even so, as fast as they’re growing, there’s probably potential in the near future. All of there reviews everywhere on line have been positive. They were genuinely nice folks though of everyone I met. The chaos of young companies… sigh…

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