Like most of these interviews posted, it was a smooth conversation. I arrived early, met with two individuals. They asked me basic questions which I was prepared for. I asked interesting questions of my own. They bragged about all the perks and stated how relatively easy it is to learn the system plus how much they are looking for someone who is like a new family member to join their work family. I never had such a good feeling from an interview during and after. I felt like my life was finally going somewhere great and I could do something that mattered to me personally for once. Some place where I would gladly go to work early and stay as long as they'd allow me to. But, like most heartbreaks, they just left me in the wind. I sent three follow-up emails. One to thank the manager for interviewing me, one to ask the HR department if they had any updates and one to the manager again because I was informed that I could ask her any questions I might have had after the interview. All emails to the manager have been ignored and the HR just had a simple "No new updates" reply. It has been over 3 weeks, I've seen the job reposted on one specific website twice now so I've lost hope. I wish people would just flat out reject you instead of this false hope people seem to be proud of utilizing.

I applied for a job at Marvel through a linkedin job posting. Three days later, I was contacted for an interview for a couple of days after that. It seemed that they were desperate to fulfill the position. The HR coordinator told me I would be meeting with the manager of the department and hinted that if I had impressed them I would meet the VP of the department. I arrived at the Marvel HQ and I first had to fill out over 20 minutes of tedious paperwork. The secretary told me I would actually be meeting with the VP of the department and hinted that if I impressed them, I would meet with the manager of the department (the exact opposite of what the HR coordinator told me). The VP asked many standard interview questions about my experience and my reactions to situations, all pretty normal. The VP had a great enough impression so he sent in the manager and another employee in the department to come speak to me. These two individuals did not ask me any questions, instead they started selling me all the perks about working for Marvel! At that point, I felt that I had passed the interview and now Marvel was trying to make me as interested as possible in their company. I left Marvel after being interviewed by the three people for over an hour feeling great. The manager told me that by the next week they would have a response and that she would "see me soon." I sent my thank you emails to everyone and waited. Three weeks later and no response I called the manager who said the VP was still deciding yet she wanted to hire me out of the candidates. I sent more emails to the VP and the manager along with the HR coordinator over time. It hit 3 months since I interviewed and I decided to call the HR coordinator. She had notified me that they offered the position to someone yesterday and hadn't had the time to send emails to other candidates. I was livid; I was led on to believe that they were interested in me and it took them 3 months to notify me. It's close to 4 months since I interviewed AND I NEVER RECEIVED AN EMAIL. To make matters worse, I discovered on linkedin that the person who got the job was an intern in the department who they hired full-time. In all fairness, I think that the intern did deserve the job over any person (like myself) who they interviewed. But the fact that Marvel wasted so much of my time (and I'm sure other candidates) shows how rude of a company they are and how much they lack common decency.