I was phone screened by a recruiter at least 3x over the course of 3-4 weeks. I then was invited to a panel interview with the hiring manager and the rest of the SEO team. It was a panel interview for a manager position so I chose to be professional and wear a blazer over my shirt. The rest of the panel was in baseball caps and t-shirts and the hiring manager, who had his own camera turned off during the entirety of the interview, had the gall to make a comment about me wearing a blazer. I should have stopped him then and told him he looked great, too. Anyway, the interview progresses and it's going great (if you consider playing a game of 20 questions "great" - they were not asked in a casual way, just a rapid fire Q&A) until abruptly the hiring manager blurts out they are looking for someone with 2-3 years of DEDICATED SEO experience. I had very in-depth SEO experience at this point, but it wasn't my only job duty at a small marketing agency which I explained to him. He abruptly ended the call there since I was no longer qualified. I sat stunned at my desk for approximately 5 minutes, until I then received a phone call from the rest of the team trying to scrape together the remaining pieces of the interview, which were personality based rapid-fire questions.
I ultimately did not get the job, but it begs the question - why did you even interview me in the process and waste hours of everyone's time when I was screened 3x beforehand and found to be a qualified applicant? Why would you make fun of what someone is wearing to an interview when your own camera was off?
And now that I've had time to observe Tombras as a company - why in the world are they hiring new clients that ultimately go bankrupt just 2 short weeks later (Spirit Airlines). Is the client vetting process just as bad as the interview "vetting" process I experienced? The rest of the recent reviews for this company that I read years later made me glad that my interview did not proceed to getting hired here.