A joke. A bad one. Had been approached by a recruiter for a contract role at Quantive which surprised me because OKRs weren’t my ‘bread & butter’. I called her to clarify, but she said that the hiring manager had said I was a ”great fit”. Interview day & time comes around. I was prepared, which wasn’t easy as my father-in-law had passed away the day before, so my wife was obviously distressed, but we decided I needed to attend the interview, having recently been made redundant. 3:30pm rolls around and I’m on the Teams call in good time. Gets to 3:40pm, no sign, message recruiter. Four minutes later, hiring manager appears. “Sorry I’m late, I sent you an email a few minutes ago {I never received one} and my boss told me not to bother with this interview but to spend my time on other work, as we’ve got enough 2nd stage candidates”. This then progressed. “Where are you based & when can you be available?”. I told him. “What’s your experience of Executive OKR Management?”. I explained that I’d worked with the Senior Leadership team and the development teams. This wasn’t want they wanted, they wanted experienced with hundreds of people involved. The interview ended. So, here’s my annoyance - A) Why was I selected in the first place? When I asked the recruiter, she didn’t have a job spec. B) Why didn’t the hiring manager read my CV? I make no false claims about my OKR experience, I think there is one sentence about my dealings with them. C) Why not have the common decency to cancel the interview, rather than simply not bothering and then to tell me that I wasn’t worth the time?! Honestly, I feel like working at this place would be awful. Going from this experience, they feel like a dreadful company to work for.
