Questions posées lors d’un entretien d’embauche pour Business Development Coordinator chez HotelTonight

Initial phone screen went as expected, I introduced myself along with providing a full spectrum of my accomplishments, skills, KPIs to date. I then highlighted my relevant work history to demonstrate an appropriate alignment within HotelTonight's business model. I felt extremely confident going into the call and got a good sense that I positioned myself as specialist in sales and business development (i.e. proven track record, someone who knows what they're doing) My interviewer, Sam, then asked me a handful of situational questions, "what if" scenarios, and other hypothetical queries that I felt were completely unproductive as it didn't add any value to our discussion. I offered to have a more strategic conversation covering performance metrics and quota. I'd like to point out was that Sam kept yawning while she was speaking. Suggesting that "something was in the air" making her tired. It was not a one-off occurrence - she abruptly yawned mid-conversation about 5 or 6 times. I almost suggested that she'd take a nap and continue our discussion another time - out of courtesy I bit my tongue and didn't mention it. I was then pressured to end our call 15 mins early because of a general angst and disrespectful phone demeanor. Sam cut me off with an entirely condescending tone "Any more questions?" A few days later I received a canned email response from Sam indicating that their team decided not to move forward. I politely acknowledged the note and followed up with requesting some feedback and at least some sort of indication of their thought process behind the decision Having since been ignored and wasn't made aware of any updates since, I chose to write this Glassdoor review. While I believe HotelTonight has a defined structure for candidates that span across both CA and NY locations, neither party benefitted from connecting on the phone that day. In fact, I truly felt it was a waste of our time. I also felt this was a reflection of Sam' individual behavior and performance. I could sense that she wasn't engaged professionally and had her mind on other matters.

The first interview was an over the phone screening with a third party hiring firm. Had an overall good experience with this part of the interview but would say it was harder than a typical phone screen call. The woman was very friendly and asked me situational questions to quiz me as if I were in this position. Questions were all within reason and allowed me to progress onto the next round of interviews. The next interview is where everything fell apart and I lost respect for HT. The person I interviewed with called me over ten minutes late with no regard for the fact that I had been waiting for the call. She did not ask me about my background or relevant experience and simply jumped into situation questions about the position. One of the first questions she asked me was to give a sales pitch, which I was very caught off guard by considering neither the title of the position or the description mentioned anything about sales. After fumbling through a sales pitch the interviewer continued to rudely emphasize how sales skills were the most important thing (again, confusing because sales was not mentioned ). While I would normally just move on to say that I was clearly not what they were looking for in this position, the thing that really turned me off during this interview was that the interviewer practically hung up on me. At the end of the interview where I was given time to ask questions, I was cut off mid question by the interviewer to say she has to go and was hung up on. No goodbye, no apology for the inconvenience or the sudden exit from the interview (the interview had been under 30 minutes). This really rubbed me the wrong way and definitely did not leave me with a good view of HT.