Applied at 4am one night, last job I applied to before going to bed. I just finished graduate school, so am just staying up applying to jobs. Am currently unemployed, as I left my previous job to attend school full time. Got a call for an interview at 4pm that day (I was very qualified for this position.) Interview was for 2pm the next day (Friday). I interviewed with three people (3 interviews back to back), with a department administrator, another coordinator I would be working with, and the director of the program. Each about 30-40 minutes. Generic interviews, each basically repeating what the last person said/asked. Generic questions (tell me about yourself, Strengths/weaknesses, how would you co-workers describe you, etc...) Pleasant people. We were getting along. I asked a lot of relevant questions, as I had had a similar role at NYU Medical Center. Typical, windowless, cold, hospital setting. Went well. Then it started getting weird. Got a call from the administrator on Monday morning that they wanted to call my references. She left a message, since I wasn't by my phone. Her tone of voice on the message seemed like she didn't really want to leave the message, or was annoyed that she had to leave a message.I called back pretty quickly. She wanted a list of names and numbers over the phone. Already felt weird because I it would have been better to e-mail a list for accuracy. I would expect this more from an older faculty member, not a younger administrative person. I started listing off names, and spelling them, but them stopped, laughed and said that it might be easier if I sent all of this in an e-mail, so she has an accurate list of names, numbers, and correctly spelled e-mails. She was hesitant to even give me her e-mail, but she pleasantly agreed with me that it would in fact be easier to send it in a text form, and gave me her e-mail. I still dont' understand why she didn't e-mail me in the first place for something like this. Scheduling an interview via phone, ok. But asking for a list of references? I would think and administrator would know a little better. What was also strange was that she only wanted references from my last position, not from any other positions I held, which really limited the amount of references I could give her. At the end of the week, I was contacted by one of my references and she said that they gave me wonderful references! (This is the administrator at NYU, btw, and she contacted me via e-mail.) They hoped I would get the job, and I ended up having lunch with them a few days later to catch up. She even said that if they had a job opening at NYU, they would consider me, but they don't at the moment. To me that especially shows that they gave good references to Columbia. The following week, I hear nothing from Columbia. I send a follow up e-mail to the one I sent with the references. A few days go by. Nothing, Ignored. Another follow-up e-mail. Nothing. I check the Columbia job portal, the position had been filled. But not by me. You would think they would at least send me a rejection letter, but, nope. A rejection letter is professional after an interview, and especially if you call references. Maybe if I called for a follow-up, the administrator at Columbia would have responded..... I thought the interview went really well, but the process afterward, completely unprofessional.

Very seamless and easy going when meeting the hiring manager. Always ask questions on expectations and what would day to day look like. Great talk and very personable. Interviews were pretty straightforward.