Job Applicant Calls Out Company's Interview Process

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mattstaff
Apr 22, 2021 6:30 PM EDT

This job applicant decided to call out a company's interview process after being rejected from getting the position. It would seem given the context here that the honest and critical review was completely reasonable. Someone in the comments section suggested that this company sounded like a potential MLM/pyramid scheme. If that were the case, then bullet dodged! 

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    Text - AITA for giving a company my honest opinion on their interview process when they asked for it? Not the A-hole I applied for a job a few months ago, it was a completely online work from home job regardless of the current situation so all communication and process was done online. This was for a retail consultant position for the online shoppers. They could seek advice from the consultant if they needed help choosing products. I received an email saying they would like to interview me. Swee
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    Text - I join the call and there are like 30 of us on there. The hiring rep tells us all to mute ourselves as we will be listening and not talking. We proceeded to sit through a 2 hour presentation on the company history, their finances, goals, and every little gritty detail that nobody actually cares about. At the end of the presentation they told us that they had been watching our faces to see how our engagement was during the presentation to determine who would move onto the next interview st
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    Text - Well I did not get selected and received that email the next day. Along with that email was an attached form they wanted reviewing the interview process with a blank box at the end to "give them our honest opinion on the interview process". I told them honestly that I found it a bit inappropriate and not very well organized that I had to dedicate 5 hours of my time to an interview for a position they weren't even considering me for. I explained that had I been in the final pool of candida
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    Text - Duuhh_LightSwitch • 23h Absolutely NTA. You're complletely right that this is a ridiculous interview process. If this is the way they want to do things, so be it. But they can't force people to be thrilled about it. And since they literally asked for feedback, there's zero issue with you providing it Reply 1.2k ...
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    Text - costco8165 • 23h • Partassipant [1] NTA- honestly you dodged a bullet with that company Reply 1.6k ...
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    Text - xyzwvu • 23h NTA. That is horrible... They basically tried to bore you for two hours and then gave you a timed essay just so you can chat to online customers. Plus, they asked for feedback so I don't see wtf is the problem. If applying for the job is that awful and pointless, I can't imagine what working for them would be like. They're the type of company where I wouldn't be surprised if they expected you to keep your webcam on all the time so they could monitor you. Reply 404 ...
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    Text - MorganAndMerlin • 23h • Colo-rectal Surgeon [37] NTA. Be glad you got weeded out and all you lost was a few hours and not a few months or even a few years. Imagine how they treat people who work for them. That's a crazy unprofessional "interview." My essay would've been more along the lines of a comparison of an interview (an exchange of questions and answers) and a lecture (a presentation you watch with minimal interruption wherein you are expected to learn a lot of information, usually
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    Text - WayiiTM • 22h • Partassipant [2] NTA. The interview process you described is super sketchy AND demonstrates how the rest of your time with that company would have been (utterly awful). That sort of interview process is actually a modernized version of MLM/pyramid scheme recruitment minus the pressure to give them money. They demonstrated 1. that they do not see their employees as people with boundaries that should be observed. 2. that they do not respect anyone's time. 3. that they didn't
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    Text - Faddyfaddyfadfad • 22h • Partassipant [1] NTA. Sometimes hiring managers/companies forget they are also being interviewed by potential employees. Sounds like you dodged a dodgy bullet there. Imagine what daily work is like in that kind of place! Reply 61 ...
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    Text - well-thereitis • 22h NTA that company sounds terrible and it doesn't hurt you to let them know it. Sounds like one of those pyramid scheme companies. Reply 54 ...
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    Text - midnight_citrus • 22h NTA. That company sounds like a scam. Legit firms do not make you sit through a 2 hour presentation during the first interview. Reply 48 ...
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    Text - UnsightlyFuzz • 23h • Craptain [176] NTA. After spending that much time in a cattle call for a job I didn't get, I would have declined to reply to their request for feedback. I'd have figured they didn't value what I had to say, anyway. Reply 39 ...
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    Text - osidc • 23h NTA. That company sounds bonkers. They asked for honest feedback and got it. If they couldn't handle it, they shouldn't have asked. Plus, those kinds of surveys are generally supposed to be anonymous because the people asking are supposed to want genuine feedback. Reply 31 ...
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    Text - NotGonnaPostAtAll • 23h NTA. I hate it when people ask a question and can't stand the truth. That's WAY out of line, especially for a company. You could probably screenshot it and report it for harassment. Reply 104 ...
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    Text - Kay_Elle • 22h • Asshole Enthusiast [6] NTA - they're entitled jackasses who know nothing about recruiting, and are angry you pointed out a sore spot. Dodged a bullet there. Reply 24
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    Text - craftygamer92 • 21h NTA and wtf is wrong with companies? An employer that pulls stunts like that is not an employer worth having imo. Reply ...
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    Text - notastepfordwife • 21h • Partassipant [2] NTA, and post that shit on the job websites. They sound shady as hell. Reply 1 11 + ...
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    Text - CaribouYou • 20h NTA Agree with many of the posters who said it seems very MLM/pyramid scheme like. Besides even if you wrote the nastiest profanity laden email, no professional company would respond back with their own nasty email. A two hour presentation over zoom, a 3 page essay just to see if you can even be considered? Bullshit, the first step of an interview is to determine if you're sane sober and posses the minimum requirements for the job, a secondary interview MIGHT have somethi
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    Text - inductiononN • 20h Absolutely NTA. Hiring is a two-way street and your time is valuable too. Also, that sounds like a terrible hiring practice - what if your face is paralyzed or you are unable to transmit video because of bandwidth reasons? Additionally, it's not at all reasonable to expect a 3 page essay with a time limit. It sounds like they are expecting all candidates to be grateful for the opportunity which is such an outdated mindset toward hiring. Askamanager would have a field da
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    Text - sparkywon • 19h NTA. They just didn't want to hear the truth that what they are doing is lazy interviewing. It reminds me when, years ago, l'd show up for an interview and there were 10 or more candidates in the lobby. I knew then that they wanted all of us together to weed people out. I was never interested in a job that used this approach. If they are such a good company they should take the time to get to know each candidate and not play circus games on Zoom. Good luck with your job se
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    Text - PotatoCheeseChip • 21h NTA. If someone, especially a company/not an individual, asks for your honest opinion, you give them your honest opinion. If they can't take a negative comment they shouldn't ask for it. Even if they would be interested I still think it's a ridiculous interview process, taking up about 5 hours of your time. Reply ...
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    Text - splatter_brained • 19h You're NTA, and that wasn't an interview. That was a process to see which cows are going to yield the best steaks during the slaughter. Real interviews value the individual, not whether your eyebrows knit together when the presenter says something "interesting." Reply ...
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    Text - iamevilcupcake • 18h NTA Many years ago I went to an interview for a place that the recruitment consultant was really hyped to send me. He thought I would be a good fit, and the people at the company were amazing. The first thing I noticed whenI went to the interview was that everyone that was walking through the door looked like they were on their way to meet their doom. No one was happy. The second thing was the woman who I interviewed with. She made it VERY clear that everything had to
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    Text - KaijuAlert • 18h • Partassipant [4] NTA - You do not want to work for a company like that. It's totally ridiculous and obviously they don't do a good job of weeding out applicants IF this is really their hiring process. To be honest, the essay sounds like the kind of BS "testing" that unscrupulous companies do in order to get free copy-writing done. In my line of work (web development) I have been ask to do "tests" like figure out website errors, draw up redesign proposals, and do photosh
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    Text - PingtheAPB • 19h NTA. Put it on Glassdoor if the company is listed. Warn other people. Reply ...
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    Text - fivetwoeightoh • 18h • Partassipant [1] NTA. What a weird "interview", once I realized it was a cattle call I would've dropped-off. For all you know they just picked 5 people at random. Reply ...
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    Text - Isowits • 18h NTA. The interviewies time is just as important as the interviewers, if they can't respect you enough to not waste 5 hours of your time, then they aren't worth working for. Reply 3 ...
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