I was contacted from someone on their team inviting me to interview. Everyone with whom I spoke was very nice but I just don’t understand the complete lack of communication following our final interview. First round interview and task portion went alright apart from them not wanting to discuss their salary range (which wasn’t included online anywhere either). Then I had a meeting with the CEO and another member of the team and it seemed that things were headed in the right direction but as soon as I emailed to follow up with their team (same day as the interview) I received no response from anyone on their team—not the person who reached out to me, not HR who set up the interview, nor the CEO or other team member who instructed me to email them with any questions following the interview. If they had gone with another candidate or closed the role I would have understood, but at least communicate that and don’t leave people waiting.

Look, I want to do you all a solid and let you know before applying: this company will make you take a Wonderlic Assessment. I know this is a relatively commonplace practice, but it always feels...icky. In fact, many believe pre-employment assessments to be discriminatory towards age and race. After the assessment, they'll send you a feedback report detailing your "workplace strengths." But, they won't let you know how you did on the cognitive portion, which (if you don't move on in the interview process) leaves you wondering if you're a failure who needs to Billy-Madison their way through elementary school again. Again, icky.