I have been in the interview process for five plus months now, and the communication has been lack luster from the talent advisor. Every time I followed up, he would be oh we want to move you to the next step. I followed up with him a month ago, and it has been silence since then (I followed up by emails three times during this month long period). I understand everyone is busy, but how hard is it to send a quick response giving a status update or saying we are moving on with different candidates. As a candidate I have given you my time and energy, but you are not able to give the respect back to me as a human being especially during COVID. This goes against AARP’s vision statement. I am very disappointed, I use to revere AARP as a top notch organization in the DCA area and this process has completely changed my opinion. Process 1. Submitted my resume and took over a month to hear back from them 2. Phone interview with the talent advisor 3. Video interview with the hiring director—Her video would freeze often due to poor internet connectivity on her part, and she was not professionally dressed for the interview 4. Submit a report assignment—Was only given one sentence to produce the report and the talent advisor did not know any answers to the questions I had for the assignment Reading other reviews, I am not the only candidate that has been ghosted and experienced extremely long interview periods (They do it to their own internal employees). If AARP is going to compete with Amazon for top-notch talent, they should look at their interview process and keep in mind they are dealing with human beings.

The phone interview went well with both HR and the hiring manager. In the next step, the Panel Interview (3) followed a behavioral format that did not allow for questions, it felt like an inquisition on past behavior that needed context of the situation before offering an actual response. No time was allowed for the candidate to discuss what would it bring to the team.