I spoke with their HR person on two occasions. One was a phone interview, was simple enough. The second was an in person interview with a skill assessment in which I was supposed to meet the owner.
During the skill assessment - their data sets in SPSS were formatted worse than those of undergraduate researchers in their first year. Once I completed the assessment to what I believed would be the best tests to conduct, the owner attempted to nitpick by claiming I should have performed a bunch of t-tests as opposed to an Analysis of Variance, which is a red flag for anyone who knows how p-hacking works.
After the assessment - not only did I never speak to the owner, they asked I start the next day as they were in desperate need of a research analyst. When asked about pay (the average salary for this position in Bellevue is ~$62k/year. They offered me $15/hour. The minimum wage. They attempted to make this less of an issue with claims of "Your pay can increase in a few short months with excellent performance!". Why do a skill assessment unless you want to know my skills and performance?
