This company is clearly struggling, they've recently been bought by a private equity company which has forced budget slashing and limited their ability to retain revenue, let alone grow.
30 minute video interview with Recruiter - Was an "anti-sell" call. Warned that the company had recently gone through several rounds of layoffs, moral was low, growth was stagnating, and the COO can be tough to work with... but they're entering a "re-birth" period. When I asked what that meant/what they were working on, I was told to ask the COO. Salary was quoted as $130-140K max (no equity/bonus), which is really low and the recruiter was clearly aware of that.
45 minute video interview with COO - COO joined the call late, no small talk, jumped right into a series of questions. I'd answer one and she'd move on to the next, no back and forth at all. She left room for 2 questions at the end. I asked how they're working on innovating and she said she couldn't share anything without me signing an NDA. Asked if she's spent more of her day-to-day this past month on cost-cutting or revenue growth, and she said "both". I said ok, then tried to get a better sense of how she spends her days as this role's main responsibility is increasing leverage for the exec team, responded "It really depends, I spend my days on a lot of different things".
Wild. Both the recruiter and the COO are clearly in a tough position.
