None! Really none! Extremely poor!

1. This foundation posted a job opening a year ago and invited me to an interview once, but later ghosted me.

2. This year, the position was advertised again (indicating high staff turnover). Since my current position at my company was not what I had expected, I chose to resign and look for another job. So when I received the interview invitation by phone, I had already briefly described my current unemployed situation and what I had experienced when applying there previously, hoping they could carefully assess the kind of person they wanted to hire. However, the other party insisted that I go there again. I thought, since I had also confirmed that I could work in the helping profession, why not give it a try?

3. On the day of this interview, the interviewing supervisor kept saying, “Didn’t you say at the time that you weren’t coming and that you were going somewhere else?” (I never said that.)

The formal interview then began. First, they had me fill out basic information. Later, a female supervisor who was mainly responsible for marketing came in, along with a young woman who looked quite junior and was probably a department colleague. During the conversation, they asked about various aspects of my past, so I explained why I had left my previous company, my approach to work, and so on. (I had also briefly mentioned these points during the earlier phone invitation.) Moreover, the supervisor interviewing me was not even going to be the future supervisor for this position; she was only temporarily helping with the interview!!!! Then, this female supervisor repeatedly emphasized that “Down syndrome organizations have no money”—asking how many media resources I could bring in, how much online marketing I could do for them, and how much benefit I could bring to the department because they had no money. It was essentially an attitude of trying to squeeze the person doing the work dry.

As the interview was nearing its end, this female supervisor asked the young-looking female colleague beside her, “So, what do you think? Does this person meet what we’re looking for?” (I wondered to myself: What exactly are you looking for? As the supervisor, shouldn’t you know?) Since this foundation had ghosted me in the past, I emphasized several times at the end of the interview that I hoped they would notify me regardless of whether I was hired. (I had also mentioned this during the initial phone invitation, and the person I spoke with had promised to notify me.)

Okay! More than twenty days passed. Feeling that I had waited long enough, I decided to email them to ask about the interview result.

They replied that, first, they criticized me for committing a major workplace taboo by discussing the shortcomings and inadequacies of my previous company during the interview, which led them to decide not to hire me. I was completely speechless!!! Second, they said the decision not to hire me had been made by multiple supervisors, passing the responsibility around and washing their hands of it—come on, it was just you.

It’s fine if you don’t hire me—but not only did you break your promise, you also emailed me saying that I had committed a major workplace taboo!!! I really wanted to ask her: When I was smeared and exploited by my previous company, did you have any empathy? Besides, I had also offered suggestions and ways to improve based on what I had experienced in the past~~~

I sincerely, truly, truly advise everyone not to become a subordinate of a marketing supervisor like this!!!! As others here have shared, the marketing department at this foundation only knows how to talk and is not genuinely advocating for disadvantaged people~~

I really advise you not to work in marketing here!!! Seriously, don’t go~~~ Besides being unable to afford even a banana peel, they also expect you to burn yourself out.