After about two weeks of applying for the job, I was sent a link to an assessment. The communication mentioned having already been invited to the interview when I had not been so there was some confusion there and I had to wait for the interview invite to come through. I was given 5 days notice of the interview and to take these, which were 2010 word and excel intermediate tests. The tests were mostly having to find different functions, such as turning on track changes, there were no complicated formulas, the main issue with those was only having 2 chances to click correctly. The assessments said that these would be brought up at the interview but that never actually happened. After a long trek through their office I was introduced to two interviewers who interviewed me for about an hour. The initial question was along the lines of 'tell us about yourself' - a very open chance to introduce myself, after which there were the usual ones such as strengths/weaknesses, how do I take criticism, what do you know about the company and why do you want to work here, where do you want to be in 5 years time, etc. After the interview was finished I was then taken to an office to do yet another assessment- this time it was a prioritisation task and correcting an email to an author that was full of typos and badly written. I was given 20 minutes to complete those tasks. I was informed that there would be a second round of interviews the following week. Throughout the interview the responses I was getting to my answers were very positive, and I came away feeling positive, however only 2 days later I received a rejection letter which contained very blunt feedback in a third person style as if copied straight from the recruiting manager's notes, which was very demotivating. This is the second interview I have attended with this company and the second time they have given this style of feedback, I just hope they don't treat their authors this way! Not known another company like it. I know feedback is a positive thing that not many interviewers seem to give at all these days, which I am grateful for, but I would expect it to be delivered in a nice way- after all I have invested time, money, effort, and most of all, hope, into this opportunity and their style of rejection email was very poor. Not only this, one of the points raised was my covering letter, when this should not have been an issue in my 'interview feedback' - after all, they obviously found it acceptable enough to invite me in the first place.

It was less of an interview, more of an assessment based on the job role. It lasted 30 minutes on a Zoom call that was recorded, I was supposed to share my screen while doing the test.