Submitted a resume/cover letter online. I was called approximately a week later to schedule a phone screen. The actual call occurred about a week after I scheduled it. The person interviewing me was obviously not experienced with interviews and wasn’t prepared to answer basic questions that anyone would ask during an initial interview. There were very few questions asked about my background and experience. I asked for a salary range for the position and she replied that she “doesn’t know how much other people on the team make” and then told me that question is more appropriate for “later in the interview process.” After the initial call, I was sent a “take-home test” and given a week to complete it. I am confident in the work I provided as it was reviewed by another content development executive that runs a business nearly identical to IXL. I was then rejected out of hand less than a full business day after I submitted a work product that amounted to over 1500 words. I was sent a form email by the recruiter and was provided with no feedback whatsoever on the work. I have never previously interviewed for a content development company that asked someone to complete a task of that length with no intent of speaking with them afterward. To this hiring team: you should be posting the salary range in the job posting itself, as none of us is doing this primarily for our health or the benefit of society out of the kindness of our hearts. Your interviewer couldn’t provide me with this very basic information to inform my own decision as to whether I should even continue pursuing the role. I’m sorry to say I feel I should have taken the other negative reviews on this site more seriously than I did. I think the approval rating of upper management and the comments otherwise say it all. I suppose anyone who reads this can dismiss it as the disappointed and bitter complaints of a reject, but I don’t have an axe to grind, bitter or otherwise. This simply isn’t good hiring practice and it’s very suspect. Moreover, for a company with this kind of reach, the interface looks utterly primitive and reminds me very much of a free Geocities website from 1999.

Pretty straightforward. The recruiter will call you and ask some pre-screening question then you will be asked to complete a task within a week. The task consists of grammatical correction, alignment and information clarity.