Interviewed for a recruiting role and the process felt unnecessarily subjective and overly critical. By the second round, it already seemed like the decision had mostly been made, but I continued with the final interview hoping for a better experience. The recruiting exercise itself did not reflect realistic recruiting practices. Anyone with recruiting experience knows there is rarely a “perfect” search, yet nearly every decision was critiqued. There was also an expectation from Emily to somehow understand what qualified as a “Charlie Health clean profile,” despite that criteria not being clearly outlined anywhere in the prompts or instructions and this will clearly vary from company to company. Unfortunately, the experience came across less as a collaborative interview process and more as an opportunity to overanalyze minor details.

Nothing was mind blowing- it was a very stale interview. Recruiter read off of a piece of paper with questions they had. Didn't dive too much into anything- didn't get me excited about the role or the actual company itself. Wasn't aware of pay for the role I was interviewing for. When not selected to move forward I asked for feedback to improve but was met with crickets. Candidate experience seemed to be lacking greatly.

My interviewer was a no show and did not communicate that they would need to reschedule. I was able to reschedule eventually but overall just not a good candidate experience.