got ghosted it appears to be a trend amongst candidates.
My gut says the ownership of this company is looking for the cheapest possible labor and free ideas for the company by reaching out to seasoned professionals and then ghosting them
Youve been warned dont waste your time
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
same as other candidates. It appears to be a script to gata data
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Mylance (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2020
Interview
Looks like I wasn't the only one ghosted by the CEO, so I'm not going to repeat what someone else has said about him. Writing this so no one else wastes their time interviewing with him.
He basically gave me an offer and told me to get back to him by the next weekend whether I'd like to take it or not. He mentioned a salary compensation alongside the equity, so I followed up with him basically two days after the interview saying I was in that I was process of quitting my current job but wanted to get an exact estimate on the salary compensation because I still need to support my family.
It's been two weeks and he has still not responded, though I know he's seen my email. For someone who's done some impressive stuff for Uber in the past, he's extremely inconsiderate. I hope no one bothers interviewing with Mylance, let alone working for him. If that's how he is while interviewing candidates, I don't doubt he'd randomly fire someone out of nowhere, even in this recession.
TLDR; gave me an offer and asked me to get back to him, which I did, and he ghosted me.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
1. Why are you interested in this role with Mylance?
2. What traits and skills do you have that make you a great fit for this position?
3. The company is very young, and most of what we've done to validate customer traction has been manual. We have a 3 week bootcamp that teaches new customers how to become a freelancer. We charge $1249 for this bootcamp, and it's going quite well. Right now this is all done manually (Slack, email, google sheets). If you got this role, with no other resources, how would you think about bringing this online, and automating it as much as possible?
4. The company is incredibly early stage and we've yet to fundraise. We're targeting a fundraise in the next 2-3 months. How do you feel about being an equity partner with Mylance, and compensation overall?
I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Mylance (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2020
Interview
Unprofessional CEO/Founder. He reached out to me on LinkedIn stating he liked my background and was looking for someone with my skillset at his startup. He asked me to answer a few questions regarding my background and fit for what he was looking for. He said he wanted to have a call to discuss my responses once I sent them over. I sent over my responses and never heard back from him. I reached out a week or so later to check in on setting up our conversation. and he ignored me.
For a person starting a new company that desperately needs to incur goodwill to encourage promoters, and who only has interns working for him currently, I don't think it is wise to disrespect candidates, waste their time, and not have the guts to tell them you are passing on them. I know it is unfortunately commonplace for some recruiters to ghost job seekers, but you are a founder who reached out to me. If you want your business to succeed, you are going to have to do better.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
1. Why are you interested in this role with Mylance?
2. What traits and skills do you have that make you a great fit for this position?
3. The company is very young, and most of what we've done to validate customer traction has been manual. We have a 3 week bootcamp that teaches new customers how to become a freelancer. We charge $1249 for this bootcamp, and it's going quite well. Right now this is all done manually (Slack, email, google sheets). If you got this role, with no other resources, how would you think about bringing this online, and automating it as much as possible?
4. The company is incredibly early stage and we've yet to fundraise. We're targeting a fundraise in the next 2-3 months. How do you feel about being an equity partner with Mylance, and compensation overall?
