After applying online, I received an email from a recruiter asking to set up time for an initial call. In the call, the recruiter disclosed the compensation, contract length and asked some preliminary questions. It’s worth noting that even the recruiter voiced an opinion about the compensation offered for the position being insufficient to cover basic expenses such as rent. First red flag. Next, received an email from the hiring manager asking to set up time for an interview. In this first interview, they asked generic situational and behavioural questions such as “why do you want to work here”, “what are three of your strengths”, “describe a time you dealt with a conflict with another coworker and how you dealt with that”. One of the interviewers was on the phone during the interview, that didn’t bother me but some could see that as coming off as inappropriate behaviour during an interview. After that, they send you 3 assessments, 1 word, 1 excel, 1 behavioural personality survey. Fairly straight forward tasks, not much preparation is needed. Then, an associate from the team asked to set up an interview. The nature of this interview was more technical relative to the interview with the hiring manager where they asked about 20 questions asking you to define real estate terms then another task asking you to spot the errors on a form. You either know the terms or you don’t, doesn’t affect too much your chances of progressing through the application process. Finally, the hiring manager asks to set up another interview with you along with others from their team. With the amount of time spent doing these assessments, doing the interviews as well as the low compensation you should honestly ask yourself whether going through this application process is really worth it for you.
• Excessive number of assessments
• Too many interviews
• Compensation is questionable as per the recruiter’s own words
