In my entire professional career, I’ve never experienced a hiring process as unprofessional and outright disrespectful as Paylocity’s. My experience with their process began over two months ago. It started with a series of last-minute, no-explanation cancellations for the initial phone screen with the recruiter. After the third cancellation, I decided it wasn’t worth the effort to pursue, left a previous review on Glassdoor about the experience and moved on. Miraculously, after the negative review, the recruiter reached back out to confirm an intro call. Against my better judgement at the time, I rescheduled. The next weeks were filled with several other interviews. The final round was a 4-hour remote session with 5 employees in a variety of roles. I’d been asked to prepare a deck to discuss a feature I’d delivered (details around definition, process, launch, etc.). The interviews seemed to go well. The response from the group was overall positive. The next day, I received a call from the recruiter saying everyone on the team had overwhelmingly positive feedback on my interviews and were impressed with the information I’d presented. She communicated that they were working to put together the official offer and the details of that offer they were planning to extend. This was on Wednesday. She told me she’d work on getting the necessary approvals and would get back to me ASAP. She expressed confidence in getting these based on the team’s feedback and my experience level. By halfway through the following day, I still hadn’t heard back. I emailed the recruiter and then called her. She finally returned an email late in the afternoon saying someone was unavailable for the approval, but she’d be in touch the next day. Friday morning I get an ambiguously-worded email about Paylocity being “unfortunately unable to extend an offer at this time.” At this point, it is unclear whether the offer needs some modifications to the details for approval or if it is being outright retracted. I ask the recruiter directly, receive another ambiguous response about her “meeting with the leadership” the following Tuesday morning to get more information and she will connect with me after. When we connect after the meeting, she informs me that a SVP didn’t like something about me on paper and refused to approve the offer. No negotiation, no conversation with me and, despite what I was told was a unanimous vote to hire me from the folks I interviewed with, they will not be extending an offer. They’re sorry, but I’m told I should rest assured that they’re learning about and improving their offer process as a result - my consolation prize. To be honest, it seems I dodged a bullet with Paylocity. This company’s values and culture are clearly a facade. If a SVP chooses to ignore an entire group’s recommendation to hire a candidate based on something he doesn’t like about a candidate on paper, there are some very serious systemic issues within the organization. I didn’t even get a clear answer as to what it was he didn’t approve of about me. I can’t help but wonder what his bias is. For those considering Paylocity as an potential employer, be advised — all the effort and necessary qualifications don’t guarantee you an offer...even when one is verbally extended to you. Don’t waste your time and energy on a company with such egregious disrespect and lack of empathy for candidates.