AWEFUL! DECEIVING hiring practices & INAPT managem...

AWEFUL! DECEIVING hiring practices & INAPT management who re entangled in shady & complex politics and other practices while struggling to understand business needs to deliver to market! I went through a long 8 month interview process for a Director of UX role that required 11 interviews and a total of 18 people, only to be discarded for a member of the hiring panel. While any company reserves the right to choose who gets hired, having someone who was interviewing be the one who ultimately gets the job is a major FOUL!

After having talked to 10 interviewers and an awesome UX team composed of another 8 more members, I pretty much got the whole picture after talking to as much as 18 peoples! It boiled down to having someone in the Director role to protect both VPs of Technology (located in Arkansas), and VP Product (located in Utah) from the day-to-day operations due to their inaptitude in lack of leadership skills to set a vision for the team, and a simple roadmap! The role was meant to insulate themselves from the dystopian environment that other team members have to operate in, so they can keep on collecting their FAT paychecks without much work! In addition, in case something was to go wrong, they could blame on their Director!

The CTO (from Arkansas) describe himself as a programmer! He has not yet made a mental transition from development mindset! I've asked him if there was any particular skill in portfolio or resume he would like to ask or know more about, however, the answer I got from him was "...everything look great!" The VP of Product (in Utah), has very little understand of product development.

In a way, I m glad I didn t get the role. In fact i was quite hesitant after I came to realization of what was going on after having talked to as many people as I have. However, I wanted to find how long more it would take to go through the entire process. I m not afraid about burning any bridges, simply because there were never any bridges to begin with, and given the ongoing relationship between the VP s and the now new Director, who was their contractor, it is obvious that there s was never any intentions to hire an outsider.

BEWARE! This situation has been allowed & fostered by the HR department. So I have to generalize that this deceiving practice is wide spread across the entire organization.