Dishonest & Pitiful HR Practices
The HR and EM interviews went great, and I received positive feedback very promptly: just the next, if not the same, day. However, scheduling the next step, a technical interview, came with a noticeable delay, when the recruiter plainly disappeared for a few days. This was the first red flag.
Nevertheless, the tech interview itself, though held nearly two weeks after the previous one, went just as good and friendly, with all questions answered and all topics discussed in detail. The interviewers, quite pleasant in their attitude, promised to pass their feedback on to the recruiter the same day, but I didn’t hear back for a few more days. This was the second red flag.
On Monday the following week, I received an automated (“no-reply”) email informing me that they’d moved on with another candidate. This was hardly a surprise at that point, as even prior to that, it had been evident to me that at some point, the company had put my profile on ice and been artificially extending the process, in anticipation of another candidate accepting the offer and actually starting the job (which supposedly took place that very Monday).
Overall, the company has failed to manage the hiring process in a graceful and ethical manner, and this fact entirely crosses over the friendliness and enthusiasm of the individuals involved. The HR person—who chickened out of providing personalized, tangible, and constructive feedback, instead just sending an automated rejection—was the epitome of the company’s ethics. That’s what I’ll remember about Tier (and, by extension, the companies it recently merged with), and that’s what I’ll be telling any colleague who asks me.