Sources and scope
This page collects workplace experiences, questions and discussions submitted by users. Dates shown are submission dates, not periods of employment. Individual reports do not describe the entire company.
Read the community guidelinesFirst stage: HR phone interview
Second stage: Direct manager interview
In the first-stage interview, HR made everything sound very positive, but it was really just talk. They made it sound as though you had already been hired. Thinking about it afterward, I suppose HR’s KPI is probably how many candidates they can find for managers to interview.
In the second-stage manager interview, to be honest, the manager was also very unprofessional and unfriendly, so working under a manager like that would be exhausting.
There were four interview rounds. I thought I was interviewing for some kind of senior executive position—I felt truly honored.
During the third interview, I was supposed to have a video call with a manager, but they still hadn’t shown up half an hour after the scheduled time. There was no response whether I sent a message or called. After finally managing to reach HR, I was told that the manager had something urgent to deal with. I can understand that something came up, but couldn’t they have informed the candidate in advance instead of only dealing with it after I followed up?
Still, I’m sure this manager must be very responsible to have handled things this way, right?