I applied for the role via their online portal in early December. Despite loading a CV, I had to spend a lot of time re-typing the details in to individual form sections to complete the process. I heard nothing for some time and forgot about the application. Towards the end of January, I was contacted by an independent headhunter that had been engaged to help fill the role who asked permission to put me forward. Macquarie’s recruitment team contacted me very quickly thereafter to deal directly (cutting the headhunter out) and interviews were set up for late January. Again heard nothing for a long time, despite contacting Macquarie for an update (which went unanswered). The portal status remained an open application. Chased again in late February, again went unanswered. Checked the portal until second week of March and the application still said ‘open’. Checked the portal in mid March and the status was updated to ‘unsuccessful’. So despite all the time lapses and two interviews I made time for, I was left to find the status out for myself and have to date received no feedback. Pretty poor, especially given seniority of the role.

Free wheeling. Lot of information about the firm. Questions were a bit all over the place, but well grounded. Not given much time for details before the next question.