Awkward at the beginning. No information about what to do upon arrival, so the first interview I ended up going in through the break room. For the second, I knew which door to use, but there is no one to greet you and no one really paying the doorway any attention. Casual interviews and was asked to do a presentation for the second interview which was fine. After 4 total interviews, (3 in person) it would have been at least courteous to hear from someone that I hadn't gotten the job. Wasted a lot of my time, only to find out I would not have appreciated that type of disrespect in the workplace. How hard is it to email and say someone else had been chosen?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sell me this software in 10 min or less. I was not intending, nor was I applying for a sales role. Odd.
I applied online. I interviewed at OpenTempo (Williston, VT) in Jun 2017
Interview
I submitted my resume via their website, and got contacted a day or two later asking me for an in-person interview on short notice. I had to rearrange my schedule a bit to make it work. The offices are in a somewhat dingy industrial park. It wasn't obvious where to go when I got there. The first door (closest to the parking lot) led me to a dark break room. I went back out and walked to the front of the building and entered from that side next. There was no reception area, but I was greeted by a fairly unfriendly office dog that kept baring its teeth at me and keeping me from entering any further. After a few minutes, someone wandered out, and was able to direct me to the person I was interviewing with. We chatted for about an hour about OpenTempo, my career, why I am moving on from my current role, etc. Overall, it seemed to go well, and I went on my way. Six weeks later, I still haven't heard a peep from anyone at the company. I even reached out again a few weeks ago to inquire on the status of my application.
To me, this is just bad form. The company operates in a fairly serious field where professionalism should be one of their top priorities. They shouldn't act like a millennial and "ghost" someone after the first date, never to be heard from again. This is especially true in the small, close-knit IT market in the Greater Burlington area.
In my opinion, behavior like this is indicative of larger issues in a company. If they can't get their hiring process right, there isn't any way that they can get other, more complex things right.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interview was more of a conversation, but the normal questions about facing adversity in a workplace situation, and my response to it, we posed.