AlixPartners Executive Assistant interview questions

A joke! Recruiter was initially sympathetic regards to my work gap and then ghosted me. Perhaps I had a lucky escape as that is not professional behaviour. I would overall describe as a total waste of time and energy and would not apply to this company again based off such a shoddy experience.

I received an email to schedule an interview by calendar link. The option was open only after a week and a half. I didn’t have any offer at that time so I picked a date. Until their interview I had tons of interviews, few of them close to offer and ideal for what I was looking for. And right now I have two offers. The interviewer from AlixP was a female. She sounded nervous and not happy for what she was doing. I also felt that someone was listening her and controlling how she would interview me. Next to one of my positions there is a starting month, starting year and an ending year only, ending month is the same and because of lack of the space I didn’t put it there. She told me that I forgot to put the ending month there and the tone was like she was my boss and was firing me because of this “mistake”. After a very basic and standard interview like info from my resume and the company itself we plaid a long ping pong about the salary information, non of us wanted to say a number first. She said three times it has to come from the candidate itself. I said that I checked here, on Glassdoor and that is the only information I have about the compensation. And I tried to make her feel it was not the number I would be happy with, because I already rejected two similar offers for better positions. Also, market is definitely at the higher point right now. I also asked how close they were with other candidates and she said that whenever the good one comes up they will hire that candidate. Even tho she asked me lots of standard questions like why this company, why, this position, why you, examples when you did this, that, situation like this that… she didn’t ask me how close I was with other companies and told me about next steps. My general feeling is that they want someone cheap, whom they’ll contact after a long time of initial application and interview and will be easy to hire and manipulate with that candidate because that person didn’t get any other offers and had to wait for them. Feels like it’s the strategy of the HR and the company itself, it’s stressful to work there and is/was the last option for everyone who works there.