My first conversation was with a recruiter--and it pretty much set the stage for my overall experience with the company. She was very nice but either very junior or really just an admin asking questions off of a sheet of paper. She read them like a script and was unable to answer any of my questions. I worked with the hiring manager directly to schedule an interview only to arrive and learn she wasn't in that day. Yes-she scheduled an interview and then didn't come to work. It was not illness related and even then, professionals would call to reschedule prior to an applicant spending 45 minutes in traffic. No one from the department came down--the receptionist had to tell me that the manager's manager said she was out. After working through the interview finally, the position turned out to be much more elementary than the job req stated and the pay was not in line with even the low end of PM market value--this was a project coordination job at best. I acknowledge the value of that role, but disagree with hiring process that could only have copied the job req from another site without being able to speak to any of their desired skills. The interview itself was fine--good conversation with friendly people but the questions were not technical nor geared towards evaluating whether a person was a qualified PM. The parting discussion was a promise for a call within a week. I called the recruiter the next day asking for a return call. I wanted to close the loop and withdraw formally via a professional conversation but just never received a call back or any followup. It actually didn't surprise me as much as it should given the entire experience with Staples.