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      Staff Writer Interview

      Mar 23, 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience

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      Staff Writer Interview

      Nov 16, 2023
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      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Built In

      Interview

      Interview process was very transparent and quick-moving, until suddenly, I was met with a cold auto-reject letter. When I followed up with my direct contacts from the hiring process, they gave me almost word-for-word the same vague canned response when I asked for more specific feedback about my candidacy. Extremely disappointing, especially considering I put a great deal of work into my interview assignment and preparing for multiple conversations. I would estimate I spent roughly six hours in total on this assignment plus preparing for the interviews, only to be met with this response. If you're going to preach transparency in a hiring process, please be willing to give candidates more specific feedback about their process when asked, especially if you're asking for their personal time and energy to complete relevant assignments.

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      Question 1

      Tell me about a time you had to keep a subject matter expert on track in an interview.
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      Application

      I interviewed at Built In

      Interview

      1.Sent in a resume and writing samples 2.Asked to write 5 pitches for stories that could be featured on the website 3.Asked to write one of the pitches 4.Two skype interviews 5.In-person interview with the CEO After going through an extensive interview process, including meeting the CEO in person, I had to email the company TWICE to get a response on my application. When I did, it was a single sentence saying I didn't get the job. I feel like if I had not emailed them as a follow-up they would've not even gotten back to me.

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      Question 1

      Standard interview questions. How do you deal with working remotely?
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      Thanks for the feedback. We are committed to creating a comfortable and transparent candidate experience. We are sorry that your experience did not match our intention of being one of the best interview experiences you've ever had. We value all feedback and as we grow, we will continue to find ways to improve our candidate experience. One of those ways includes the recent hire of our Director of People. One of their core responsibilities is to oversee our recruiting efforts and ensure experiences like yours do not happen again. Thanks again for your feedback.