Internal application. Interviewed with the manager and due to my prior collaboration with him in previous positions, he knew how I worked and wanted me apart of his team. Started this to me within first five minutes of interview. But told me HR is who makes final decision. To me that’s odd because why is HR making the decision on behalf of a different department. THAT manager knows best, not them. Not for nothing that HR team doesn’t know anything. You ask them an HR related question, you get an “ask your manager for this answer”. Anyway, nearly mouth goes by and I was denied.
I interviewed at Teachers Federal Credit Union (Hauppauge, NY)
Interview
Pay offered is below average, requested skills and job duties do not match pay. You are required to dress a certain way, no colors, blazers, no prints. This credit union thinks they are hiring for Wall Street bankers. Hiring process is slow.
I applied online. I interviewed at Teachers Federal Credit Union
Interview
Applied for a position online, took a few weeks to hear back. Scheduled an interview only for the interviewer to not contact me day of (this was virtual) and then went cold for a week until she rescheduled.
I sat down and the interviewer was late & unprepared (again, virtual). Said she did not understand what the position even was and answered none of my questions about the position. She even admitted that the turnover for this position was so high that there's no room for growth, and kind of laughed when I asked what other opportunities there were within the company. Wow. Definitely what you should be telling people interested in working for you. I suppose I appreciate the honesty- but it sounds like you shouldn't be interviewing for a position you don't understand.
After the interview, she continued to contact me asking basic questions that were easily answered by a quick look at my resume (which I had sent her during the application process and again after the interview in my thank you letter).
I feel that I was just a number in the system to meet an interview quota and my time was wasted. I am expected to show up to an interview properly prepared, dressed, and with a good attitude. Why is my interviewer allowed to ignore all of these? I'm sure she is being overworked, but her appearance was very casual for what should be a routine interview, and her lack of understanding of the position she was hiring for made my interview extremely difficult to work around. Extremely unprofessional, and if this is your first line of connection between your company and new hires, I'm glad I dodged this mess of a situation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked multiple questions that were quickly identifiable on my resume.