The interview process was unpleasant as it seemed as if the interviewer was trying to find more reasons NOT to hire me than to hire me. I know this is where HR separates the wheat from the chaff but it was odd.
The woman sends me a request for a phone interview via email late Friday, she only gives me two separate dates and times. This clues me in to the fact they are not flexible but rigid. I emailed asap late Friday. Fortunately I am unemployed, because if I were working, I would not have been able to do a phone interview for the 2 limited choices I had been given for scheduling. I waited late Monday, never got a response yet, so had to contact HR again to confirm receipt of my email. The woman said she accidentally overlooked it. Strike one! Out of the two choices, I had chosen Wednesday when I responded the previous Friday. Guess what? This woman calls my cell phone on Tuesday and leaves a voicemail for the phone interview. Strike two! I contact HR back to inform her I had selected Wednesday for my interview day. Well guess what?! Now she calls Wednesday, but at the wrong time SHE had me scheduled for. Strike three! She had left me a voicemail explaining she was sorry, she caught her mistake but that she accidentally called hours too early and will call back later. This was of a concern to me that this department was making this many mistakes out of the gate for a phone interview and they were representative of the company, yet I found later she was concerned about my LinkedIn presence because my profile was new. Just yesterday, I just had some stranger from some other state request I add her to my profile. Is LinkedIn supposed to be a popularity contest? My point is I can accumulate strangers on my profile list like many do on LinkedIn and Facebook, which is misleading and annoying, or I can be me. I would discourage you from working here, I smell inexperience or incompetence.