For this interview process, I had a phone screening, a meeting with the hiring manager, a meeting with the learning experience design team, and a final meeting with the CEO. The whole process moved pretty quickly, and I really liked the people I met in HR and on the LXD team, and could picture working cohesively with them. The LXD team seemed personable, vibrant, and dedicated to their work, and I appreciated the ways they shared that they'd each work with the Learning Media Developer.
My meeting with the CEO was, honestly, horrible. He never introduced himself, didn't give me a chance to do so, and began the call with a ten minute diatribe about his "trolls" and "haters" who don't believe in his way of running the school. I do get where he's coming from, and I know he has a lot of passion for providing low-barrier, high-quality education to people. However, he himself expressed distrust in the people that work for him and distaste for students/alumni who do not support his leadership style, neither of which I feel to be appropriate for a university president to express. His tone throughout the meeting, of condescension and hostility, did not make me excited to work for him.
This would have been a great opportunity for someone looking to work somewhere that's run first and foremost like a business, with unilateral decisionmaking and a very top-down structure. I hope that whoever accepts this position will thrive there! I'm just relieved that it's not me.
