Roof Rx interview questions

The interview was set up through a recruiting group who was hosting a hiring conference in San Diego. I was sent a flyer for the supervisor position that I was slated for and told that I would be interviewing with Edwardo, the president of Roof Rx, and Matt, a senior Roof Rx employee. The flyer painted a promising picture, stating that the supervisor managed a service area and a number of technicians and inspectors servicing that area. Compensation started at 20 - 25 / hr during training (6 mos to a year) and then $80,000 a year plus commissions on every contract performed in that area. All in all, things looked promising. All of that changed when I got to the interview. After introductions and pleasantries. Matt told me the supervisor position I was interviewing for was not available but could become available after about a year of working as an inspector. This wouldn't be such a problem if the disparity in pay was not so huge. From what I learned, an inspector starts at around $28,000 / yr and makes a much smaller commission of 3 to 4 percent only on the jobs that the inspector individually executes which computed out averages about $40 per contract. He did say that once I was a supervisor I could be making over six figures and he cited his L.A. area supervisor's pay of $140,000 for the year. Classic bait and switch combined with a carrot on a stick. Since the position I was interviewing for was not expected to be open for a year or more, I asked why I was led to believe that I was interviewing for it. That's when Matt admitted he was not an official part of Roof Rx and he could not speak directly for Edwardo, who was not there because he had to take a meeting elsewhere. After some more questioning, I found out that Matt was the owner of his own company that was in a joint venture with Roof Rx, is not a licensed contractor, does he have a joint venture license with Roof Rx, and does not meet any special conditions that would exempt him from having to have a license. I asked him about this and he said he knew what they were doing was "slightly illegal" but was required because of California's over-regulation of the construction industry. The next Monday the recruiting agency said that Roof Rx wanted to continue the hiring process. I declined.

The interview was pretty straight forward and standard. All questions were answered and information was presented well. Too bad it wasn't until months after the interview I came to find out half of the information given were lies and incorrect. I was given extremely misleading information regarding the job description, scope of work, day to day operations, SALARY, commission structure, office support, management support, etc.