Expect to be strung along for weeks with HR lies about follow-up meetings for a job not one interviewer can agree upon the function, role, or need for the position. Clearly a lack of direction and organization from the top of the house. They’re farming interviewees for sales leads.
Interview process begins with a screening interview with a recruiter and a short review of qualifications based on the posted position. The accuracy of the role description ends up being inaccurate as you progress to the next interviewer who also couldn’t clearly describe the role or the function effectively. This will continue through each interviewer with not one knowing anything about the role or the purpose of this function. In fact, they disagreed with each other in most cases. It was completely frustrating.
Expect questions like:
I see you work for XYZ institution (notably with a larger online presence), how involved are you in the LMS search process? Can you tell me when their contract might be up?
Faculty members are always the problem for us, how do we get them to use our product?
What can you do for our company?
Where do you live? Where are you thinking of moving?
Why do you live there?
Do you have a family?
Professionalism - Each executive interviewer was unprofessionally dressed; even wearing a hoodie. In some cases distracted with answering emails while lying to suggest he was taking notes. Even blowing his cover that he just got an alert to go to a meeting halfway through the interview after openly arguing a point in which he was clearly wrong about the US Education system.
Education experience of Interviewers - These are legacy IT workers and failed social media bros looking for a quick buck and sales leads from candidates (maybe it is their latest round of VC funding because this company has lost their way). Not one of them as actual education experience and it shows in the interview and their sales processes. In each case the interviewers talked about higher education faculty as a deficit; essentially blaming them for low adoption rates of an outdated LMS system (as one colleague called it Blackboard for people who hate Blackboard).
Recruiting follow-up - Expect to be strung along with corporate lies about follow-up meetings that mysteriously get moved from week to week. Then expect to get a canned declination letter.