Someone reached out to LinkedIn about a position here and asked if I would be interested and they could set up a call with their coworker. I said sure and asked what the position would be, which they were a bit evasive about. Soon after their internal recruiter emailed me and asked me to schedule a call with her for an interview. It was a bit of a turnoff for me that the next available time was in 2 weeks and seemed to be a 30 min interview when I didn’t have any information on the position and whether or not I would even be interested.
Second red flag was when I received a survey to fill out prior to the interview which asked about my college degree and my GPA in college. I was pretty baffled and wondered if this was an entry level role - I haven’t been asked about my GPA since my first position out of college.
Anyway it was already scheduled so I decided to check it out but made the mistake of not seeing the glassdoor interview reviews until the night before. Obviously after reading all these reviews I was not at all interested in continuing to interview here. I brought up a few things I had read in the reviews and they confirmed for me that everything would be done remotely but the next step would be a 4 hour questionnaire and a series of interviews that would be around 6 hours. They did not mention the case study I read about here or final onsite.
As I have a decent amount of experience in IT already I pretty much noped out of there. At this point I don’t work for free and have no interest in wasting 10 hours of my time on, judging by the other reviews, people who won’t even follow up with rej. If you’re new to this field please consider the case studies mentioned in reviews are based on actual business problems is basically asking for free work and is pretty scammy, if not illegal. It’s common to be asked for work samples or to do a small assignment (based on hypothetical scenarios) that’s actually pertinent to your role. Those I will do.
Both people I spoke to were polite and professional. I don’t blame them for this, it’s obviously the corporate processes which are suboptimal. We could have had a 5 minute conversation and decided whether to bother moving forward. Seeing how their calendar is constantly booked each recruiter could probably save 20+ hours a week if they didn’t book 30 min with everyone they wanted to talk to. At the minimum, provide a job description and salary band to review prior to scheduling.