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Dear Interviewee,
We apologize for your experience and for making you feel insulted and degraded. That wasn't our intention at all. We aim to provide excellent interviewing expertise to everyone, even though there may be a better mutual fit.
We were looking forward to the interview based on your Australian education and the international experience we saw on your application for our sales representative role. Having founders with multicultural backgrounds ourselves, we understand that people who are traveled and seen the world are a huge plus. That's why we have contacted you multiple times and checked in with your interest based on our pay range that was transparently posted along with the job. We reached out pre-interview to double confirm this and during the interview to triple confirm this limitation. Although we would have loved to work with you, we didn't want to waste your time if there wasn't a financial fit in the first place because we understand that people often have families and other financial commitments that may not allow them to join our startup this early.
If we can provide any feedback on feedback. The interview, to be honest, was also quite a disappointment for us because it started on the wrong foot by you missing our first interview, not the other way around, as you mentioned. You can also see this clearly in your email sent to us below. Additionally, after reading your review, our meeting seems to have quite a bit of miscommunication. You appear to indicate that our interviewer, a native English speaker, severely lacked English proficiency since it was insufficient for your easy and clear understanding. Finally, when we met, we expected to discuss your sales experience for our sales representative role. You started to talk about community management, fundraising, and marketing services you have provided to other companies and started to try to sell us on it.
Perhaps you were confused about our call and that you applied for a job and didn't seem to remember that our interview is for a sales representative, not even a sales manager role, as you indicated. Even in email exchanges before our actual meeting after your first missed interview, you wrote to us something quite puzzling and confusing about work on pitch decks and being paid for seed funding brought in:
"Sorry to miss the interview, I was otherwise occupied with other responsibilities. The role interests me but like every job it takes time. I can start to work on the pitch deck but we must make things official. I would like a contract proposal(does not have to be a docx.) and a remuneration estimate. I need some sort of clarification as to whether I will work as a contractor(paid per seed funding brought in) or if I am entitled to some monthly compensation."
To refresh your memory, you can see this clearly see the redacted conversation of our email exchanges to protect your privacy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19sHu5danq9nBtmkkiDi_2WfFg2N52LzH/view
For these reasons, we didn't want to waste your time because your community management, fundraising, and marketing skills didn't fit our hiring needs for a sales representative. They are two completely different roles. However, we entertained the idea of working with you based on the role you pitched us. We didn't need this role and therefore wouldn't spend any significant budget on it now. You mentioned that you had raised millions of dollars for your previous projects. We have raised tens of millions in our previous companies, but knowing the difficulty of fundraising, we were willing to give it a go with you even though we didn't really know you. Taking a chance on people like you is something we really enjoy doing, and we have done this many times successfully in the past. However, high risk with an unproven record outside your own hearsay while we don't really need these services only warrants a limited budget. We could only give it a go and try for $200 per month plus commission. If you had brought us what you said you brought to previous projects, you would have made more than you ever made.
We are sorry that insulted you. That wasn't the intention at all. We hope that much of the miscommunication is cleared with this explanation. You can empathize with our side as we see and empathize with your bad interviewing experience. Again, there is no ill will from our side towards you or anyone else. We wish you the very best in your career and your bright future. Thank you for interviewing with us, and hope you will land somewhere amazing soon. Good luck!
Thank you,
Snapbrillia Team