If they reach out with an interview, run clear in the other direction. Chaotic, unorganized and they required a full marketing campaign to be completed in a less than 24hr turnaround. And then it’s not even discussed, you will do the “assessment”, go through four rounds of interviews and it will never be brought up again. What’s the point of doing what is essentially unpaid work if you’re not even going to review it with the candidate? Also, let’s stop normalizing asking candidates to do unpaid work in the first place. Did all of that, jumped through their hoops only for them to severely lowball on the offer and then ghost me for several days while they figured out how to answer basic questions that anyone would ask during a job offer. I honestly feel like I dodged a huge bullet.

I was contacted from someone on their team inviting me to interview. Everyone with whom I spoke was very nice but I just don’t understand the complete lack of communication following our final interview. First round interview and task portion went alright apart from them not wanting to discuss their salary range (which wasn’t included online anywhere either). Then I had a meeting with the CEO and another member of the team and it seemed that things were headed in the right direction but as soon as I emailed to follow up with their team (same day as the interview) I received no response from anyone on their team—not the person who reached out to me, not HR who set up the interview, nor the CEO or other team member who instructed me to email them with any questions following the interview. If they had gone with another candidate or closed the role I would have understood, but at least communicate that and don’t leave people waiting.