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I was interviewed a total of three different times...

I was interviewed a total of three different times for this position over a two-week period. The first interview took place with the current holder of the position and the HR manager. The first interview was given by a gentleman who did not seem to have ever given an interview before. As a result, he rambled on about the position and doodled on my resume as I was talking. The second interview was given by a woman named Caroline who was extremely unprofessional. She was extremely aggressive, questioned my job history, and spoke negatively about the job in general, telling me several times that I would be expected to work considerable overtime and would need to skip lunch breaks. I took a quick, simple test and then was told to come back next week to interview with the CEO. We made an appointment and I left.

When I arrived for the second interview, the receptionist greeted me and told me that who I was there to interview with did not show up. The interview was scheduled for 4:30, and I had driven through considerable traffic to get there, so they set me up with another gentleman who talked at length about himself for 45 minutes and did not ask me a single question. It was a complete and total waste of time and gas. The interview was rescheduled for five days later, also for the late afternoon because I was told that the CEO of the company did not arrive to work until after 3:00 PM most days.

Five days later, I arrived to the office to see that the CEO of the company, who I was supposed to be interviewing with, did not show up once again. Instead I spoke with her over the phone. This was the single most awkward, bizarre, and unprofessional interview I have ever experienced. She talked about herself, her daughter, and told me that document translations "did not matter" because it was only 5% of their total business (the rest being interpretation). She quizzed me on what I thought the job entailed and told me that my resume "did not make sense" to her. She told me that I lived too far away (only about 20 minutes from the office) and tried to recruit my husband, a native Spanish speaker, for a large portion of our interview. She told me that there was so much work to do that I would need to stay late a majority of the time, but then also said that there was not much document translations work, and I would primarily be in charge of the social media account for the company. Ultimately I left the interview with more questions than I arrived with, not understanding fully what the company was trying to accomplish, what the hours for the position were, and what the job truly would entail. Ultimately, the experience was so frustrating that I chose to pursue other endeavors rather than work for such a disorganized, mismanaged company.

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