I applied for and interviewed with this organization's Center for Community Investment, which is essentially a separate organization and is in a different city (Washington, DC) than the parent organization. The application process was slightly different than the usual process these days. I sent in my application materials by email and within a reasonable amount of time, I was contacted to schedule an in-person interview, which was set for a couple of weeks from that date. Then, the following week, before my in-person interview, I was sent an email with a writing test. This came as a surprise to me. I would have appreciated a warning that there would be a writing test at the time I was contacted for the interview. I was technically given a good amount of time - several days - to complete the test, but I was out of town that week, so it was a slight inconvenience. To top it off, the first email about the writing test did not include all of the materials I needed to complete the test. The sender realized this a day later and sent the rest of them so I was able to complete the test on time, but still, it shows how unorganized they were. The writing test was in three parts and took a while to complete, and I thought the amount of work they were asking of applicants in a writing test was too much. Plus they were asking applicants to get too detailed in the writing when most applicants wouldn't know about the details because they weren't working with those issues yet. But the biggest surprise - not a nice one - came at the in-person interview. First, I was in a conference room with three other staff members and was never told who I was going to be interviewing with or how long with X person or Y group. That sort of information is helpful to the applicant so you know what to expect. It was just scheduled as a 2-hour interview. Right off the bat, they told me that the position had changed since I had sent in my application. They had essentially downgraded the position from a director level to a manager level, and one of the women doing the interviewing was moving into the communications director position. They really should have told me about this before I came in for the interview. This is a really dirty trick that they played. I did call them on it a bit by asking why they made that decision. I did complete the full interview, but even when I heard this news, I pretty much knew I wasn't interested in the position anymore because it wasn't at the level I wanted.