It’s clear that the Marketing Department (User Experience team) is not serious about hiring full-time positions. I’ve applied to dozens of Allstate’s UX type positions throughout the years and I must say over half of them were either Cancelled or put On Hold. I thought this time would be different. I currently work for a temp agency in which my assignment just so happens to be with Allstate and has nothing to do with my technical skills, it's just a job to get by. My assignment was coming to an end so I’ve been feverishly looking for a new position anywhere and everywhere. Out of haste I decided to apply online for the User Interface Engineer position. I also noticed that job has been sitting there since December of last year but went ahead and applied anyway. Because I got an email reply from HR within two days to set up a phone interview with the hiring manager the following week, I figured finally this time will be different. I recalled just recently applying to a similar Allstate position 5 months prior in which the status quickly got changed to Cancelled. The interview with the hiring manager went well, it lasted a solid 30 minutes. It was more of a conversation, questions were about my passion about UX design, what tools do I use, and what is my design process. I sent a follow up email to the HR team a few days later to ask about the status. A couple of days after that, I received a canned rejection notice saying "other candidates more closely match the position" but yet the job is still posted with an “Open” status. In addition when I got the first email for an invite to interview it stated “We are impressed with your credentials”. So which canned message is the truth?