1. After a 3rd party recruiter setup the onsite interview, he informed me that TabbedOut had requested that for the interview I park my car at a Whole Foods grocery store 2 blocks away, then walk to the office, because they had limited parking space in front of the building. This made no sense to me, and was a big red flag. They obviously had at least one available parking spot out front for the vacant position that they were interviewing me for, so why couldn't I park in that spot?? It started raining on my long 2 block walk from Whole Foods, so I showed up to their office wet, suit and all. I couldn't help but notice a half-empty parking lot in front of the building as I walked up.
2. The office was a very unattractive space that resembled an old apartment complex. I sat on a dingy looking sagging couch in the lobby, and waited well over 15 minutes past my interview time. I was eventually greeted by the CEO, a man in golf attire (including golf cap), who escorted me to a nearby conference room with a busted overhead florescent light. We therefore sat in the dark, kind of intimate and awkward. The CEO "Tom" immediately told me that he was hired 1 year ago to whip the company into shape, and he "fired all but 4 employees". He bragged about this as if this was his proud accomplishment. He said that the majority of employees therefore had been there a year or less. He then leaned towards me and said sternly "I am very picky who I hire, I hire only the best". It was too bad that their Board of Directors wasn't being picky when they hired Tom. What a pretentious clown.
3. Afterwards, I was led to an interview room, where I was interviewed by a 3-panel team: One QA, one DEV, and one QA who just transferred from Tech Support. I was not impressed with this team, or their questions. Very junior level. The DEV told me that he didn't like to be "bothered" by QA when he was working, because he got in "a zone". I was really wondering just how"picky" Tom was being when he hired these 3 employees. The interview was short, then was over. Long walk back to the car.
4. The feedback that I received from the recruiter a few days later was that "they said you didn't answer some questions as expected". Unbelievable, I swore I aced all questions, the questions were virtually nonexistent, and I was way over qualified for this role. I'm grateful that I didn't receive an offer. This place was a total dump, the CEO was a joke, my interview panel was unimpressive, and the TabbedOut application had no future - a major competitor was heads and tails over them.
