Oracle NetSuite, Global Sales Productivity, Operations
Project Manager 3
Phone screen with the recruiter. I was 5 minutes late because I was trying to finish up a work meeting with my current employer. She was kind of snippy about my resume saying that I didn’t have my address on it…which is a completely outdated rule since we joined the digital world. And the position was remote so I am not sure why it mattered.
She liked my background enough to move me to the first interview with the hiring manager.
The hiring manager seemed nice at first but I could tell there was a “mean girl” underneath that fake smile.
The second interview was with two of the hiring manager’s direct reports and they seemed like robot mean girls. They took turns asking questions off a prepared list and they said my name before asking each question and with Valley Girl voices. And after I answered they said, “thank you for your answer” each time. It was creepy and fake.
The final interview required a “presentation” for a panel but it was really more of an assignment that looked like work for the actual job. They wanted me to create template reminders and schedule training classes. They said I would have 48 hours to prepare but the recruiter didn’t send it to me until very late in the evening on the first day so I really only had one night to prepare.
No apology for the delay from HR. Just excuses about her “delay send” not working.
Then, after I finally got the assignment, I could not login to the assignment because of authentication issues with the account. The hiring manager did not even apologize for the delay and for her mistake in setting up the assignment account.
The instructions were vague and it seemed like a high schooler wrote the assignment.
I finished the assignment before the interview and explained my assumptions and how I interpreted the instructions for the assignment.
Before I even started, the hiring manager said, “Now you had 48 hours to prepare, so let’s start with the presentation”.
But that hiring manager knew that I did not have the full 48 hours that other candidates probably got…what a completely unnecessary comment just to throw me off before I started.
After the presentation, the panel asked me situational questions and when they were done they did not even offer the chance for me to ask questions. That seemed strange to me.
The hiring manager just said, “don’t worry if you don’t hear anything at the end of the week since we will be finishing interviews but one of the recruiters will reach out to you at the beginning of the week.”
