Was contacted directly by the hiring manager for an initial phone call. Immediately, I was thrown off, as he spent the first few minutes explaining his displeasure about his daughter’s decision to move to be with her boyfriend. Not sure how that was relevant, and not sure that conversation would have happened with a male candidate. He asked a few cursory questions, explained he had “10 other candidates” banging on his door and that he would be deciding his rankings the following week. Ultimately, I was unimpressed, and wrote him a note thanking him for the time, but professionally removing myself from the process. He emailed a week later to tell me had better candidates.

I went through a series of over-the-phone interviews. The first was through a recruiter, and then another was with the potential boss for the position. Then I had to do a few zoom interviews with others in the same senior position. The final interview was a presentation in front of the sales director and potential boss. The last interview was a mock call for a prospective client.