My experience with Common Thread Collective or the lack of experience was a complete waste of time. They are trying to do damage control after their site, or something was hacked. I kind of fell for the scam so I was offered a phone interview. It lasted under 5 minutes, they were not engaged about my experience, the person couldn’t answer my questions about CTC and seemed very uninterested in this process. The person was going through the motions of we got hacked, let’s try to make people feel better when a simple let’s move on to another candidate would have been more polite and respectful.

This was by far the most shady interview I’ve ever participated in. I was instructed to download an app called Wire and to contact my point-person there in order to set up an interview. Upon contacting this person, my interview wasn’t so much “scheduled” as it “immediately began”- strike 1. The entire interview was conducted over text chat, which I found very unprofessional; how are you supposed to get a vibe from someone or a feel for their character over text messaging? Strike 2. Questions were just strange. The kick-off question: what movies do you like to watch. I was then asked- applying as an editor- if I like to shoot JPEG or RAW. I was not given a chance to ask any questions or have a two-way conversation. Strike 3. After eye-rolling my way through the interview, I was offered the job 24 hours later and given a very sparse 3-page “contract” that would be paying me $80k+ annually. I thanked my point-of-contact and politely asked him if I would have an opportunity to ask some questions about the business/work environment, to which he said yes and would be directing me to HR so I could continue with the process. He ceased all communication with me immediately; I’m assuming this was some stupid game of chicken and he was expecting me to say “screw it”, be tempted by the salary and just sign on the dotted line sight-unseen. I did not. Needless to say, something smelled rotten from the get-go and it only got worse. I don’t know what the deal is with this place, if they scam their hires out of money, or if they just generally suck as a company, but it was abundantly clear that something was way off here. I would never recommend applying for a job here.