1st Round was an easy video chat with internal recruiter, 2nd round was a video chat with hiring manager followed by what was supposed to be a 3rd round assessment.
What instead happened - > was a 1 week + delay in being sent the assessment, with no note from HR on what was going on, except that I was told randomly on a Friday afternoon sorry for the delay - hiring manager was out on vacation and we'll follow up next week with the assessment. Ok, sure thing - sounds great.
But what happened next a few hours later was that I was given a multi-page assessment on a Friday evening at 7pm and expected to turn it in on Monday morning first thing.
What an absolute terrible mismanagement of the situation by all parties and faulty communication all around.
I immediately made sure both the hiring manager and HR knew this was wildly unrealistic and unprofessional and I considered this Strikes 1,2, and 3 all at once with the absolute ineptitude shown off by this company.
I told them upon receipt of my email that I was withdrawing my application for the position as I don't have time to deal with companies that don't have respect for candidates time and have unrealistic expectations.
If you see a company make their problems, your problems because of something they did wrong or mismanaged as part of the interview process? RUN THE OTHER WAY.
Thank god I dodged this bullet - and I hope my telling this story can help others that are smart Accountants do the same.
Massive Red Flags here people - there's better jobs out there for us, and you can for sure get them - no need to deal with or work in this dysfunction at Collective on the Accounting side.
To the people at Collective who I hope read this?
You deserve to lose quality candidates until you fix your processes internally or work to properly train your internal staff + HR/Talent Acquisition folks.
Thanks!