Don’t waste your time: unprofessional and irresponsible behavior with candidates. Read on for full experience. Two interviews, both pretty pleasant and fairly standard. I was interested as I really liked the people I interviewed with. I provided references which - as universally known except to this company, apparently - you DO NOT contact references unless you intend to make an offer. It’s quite literally the LAST thing you do for a reason. As someone who’s very cautious about handing these over, I stupidly trusted them. I woke up the next morning to an email asking if I could be negotiable on salary - OK, sure. I’m notified my references spoke with their HR. Great - good signs! 6 hours later I receive an email that they don’t hire people with a side business - something that is on my resume and I spoke with one of the “executives” about in our interview (sidenote: it’s not a competing priority by any means, it’s an art project). Absolutely, insanely unprofessional and amateurish. I get it: it doesn’t affect you one bit to waste my time and bother my references but it reflects poorly on me. It’s preposterous you even spoke with me when something clear as day on my resume was a deal breaker FROM DAY ONE. After reading reviews from former employees, it sounds like the brother in charge was not who I spoke with - it was the one who apparently can’t make a decision alone. While I’m absolutely furious they wasted my time and embarrassed me by contacting references when they had no intention of making an offer, I’m thankful I dodged a bullet according to former employees. I’ve been through the interview game many times in my life, disappointment is part of the journey but this type of interaction is what gives small companies a bad name. Don’t waste your time - who knows if what they are telling you is honest. Sounds like the turn over is pretty bad. To Hickey and Associates: you aren’t going to grow or build a good reputation without the ability to check details (especially on a one page resume) and disorganization within your company. It might be time to rethink why you haven’t grown in 40 years instead of blaming fired employees in the actual interview - this happened. You might also want to rethink the message it sends when you say “we don’t want employees to have a life outside of work”.