First, a one-on-one with the COO. Then an excessively long take-home task, followed by an interview with the HR manager and the former Executive Assistant, which included yet another task during the call. It was obvious they had no idea what this role was meant to be. In addition to doing literally everything a PA/administrator should do, they also required the role to respond to frontline IT support questions (a dev can't get into their laptop) and helping the product team physically put the products together! And this is a company with ~65 people; we're not talking a 10-person startup. All of this for a max of £35,000 a year. The COO complained that applicants were questioning the top of the salary band, and all I could think was, yeah, because it's at least £10,000 too low for what you're expecting. And that was before I realised in the second interview that one of the people the PA supports was clearly a nightmare, given that she would regularly book part of her own travel plans and then leave the PA to deal with a change in itinerary. I guess they found someone desperate enough to do the job, because they didn't call me back for a third interview. They didn't even bother sending me a rejection email, even though they use BambooHR, which should make that sort of thing easy.