This is for the NYC Creative Agency. As other interviewees have shared here, VX Media is quickly becoming notorious for awful interview practices. They habitually ask for large-scale tests to be completed (taking up to 12 work hours to complete) before you are even given a screening call. In my case, I don't think my work will be used by them, but I would not be surprised if they farm work this way. Once the test is completed, you'll likely not hear back--ever. In my case, I moved on to the next "round", where the interviewer gave many red flags while explaining the work environment, even for a startup, it was bad.
- "You will 100% get burnt out"
- "You will work overtime every week, but we cap you at 37.5 hours."
- "We don't let anyone work remotely, but yes, you'll take your work laptop home to respond to messages obviously."
- 6 Days PTO, 40 hours sick leave, partial health insurance coverage
In the second round, we negotiated salary already, even though there were more rounds to come, which I found very off-putting. If you make it to the third "round", you will be invited to the office for a 6-hour in-person interview (no exaggeration, they'll schedule it for 6-hours). This is where you're given a surprise test with limited time to complete it, and then told you will be presenting your work to all the people in the office (about 20 people). With something so intense, I expected the leadership team to be reassuring and warm, but they only gave me cold responses and seemed bothered that I was even there.
It was clear they did not have much work experience, and read questions mostly from Chat GPT. They never followed up to let me know I did not get the job.
