After several interviews by phone, I had a final interview in the marketing department with five different employees at App Annie. They reviewed a lengthy test project that they asked me to create, and spent an hour asking questions. Like many reviewers on this site, I strongly feel that App Annie was using my interview and presentation for free consultation work, and it made me feel cheap and used. The folks interviewing me were strangely inexperienced in my field, and it felt like I was teaching them a class in something they knew nothing about. On top of that, I was astounded by their lack of communication skills. If you ask me to create a sample project for your company that requires 20 hours of free work, the least you could do is communicate with me afterward and let me know that I wasn’t what you were looking for. Instead, they never let me know whether I got the job or not, which was unprofessional after weeks of interviews.

The interviewer was brusque and distracted. The most interesti elaborate.ng part was at the end of the interview, where she asked if I had any questions. I asked about all of the negative Glassdoor reviews and she was stunned. She then gave me what sounded like a canned response about former disgruntled sales employees but wouldn't elaborate. I wasn't surprised to receive the rejection email later that afternoon.