I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
Interview
I had a VERY weird interview experience here, where it was a full day interview (8am- 3:30pm) where I interviewed with five different teachers and administrators and guest-taught a class. I got one bathroom break (where the person chaperoning my day waited outside the bathroom) and had an interview during lunch, where I was expected to answer interview questions while eating and meeting with the heads of school. In one of the interviews, they asked me very probing questions, with a hostile edge, about a recent career break, and no answer I provided was good enough. When I guest taught a class, the teacher interviewing me was working on his laptop. I sat in on a conversation with two teachers where they discussed how to respond to a student who was posting pro-MAGA content (that seemed to have a hateful edge) in a class discussion board; the degree of privilege I observed, across the school grounds, was pretty wild. After I left, the teacher who supervised my day sent me a strange email saying, "Thanks for spending the afternoon with us" when I had arrived at 8am and taught his class.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you have a career break on your resume? What have you been doing for the past six months?
Standard phone interview with a head of tech department and then invited for an in person interview which was with all members of the department and some others. Took a couple hours but the team seemed like they worked together great and I hoped to join.
Was told I would hear back after a few more folks interviewed. A couple days later I received a call letting me know that I was their top choice and they were offering me the position.
After receiving their fair, but unimpressive, salary and benefits (one omission being any kind of guaranteed tuition remission for my child), I requested they match my current sick/pto amounts (which would have taken 2-3 years for me to get to normally), bump the starting salary to match what I was making at my current employer, and to guarantee a minimum tuition remission amount.
They were able to match my sick/pto time.
They were unable to adjust my salary, I believe because I would then be making more than people with roughly the same position as me but with much more seniority. That sucks, but fine.
They were also unwilling to guarantee any tuition remission. Only faculty received such a guarantee as part of their benefits. Not staff.
They were nice enough to get the director of admissions on the phone with me, who was on vacation (red flag), who went through my family's income with me and gave me an estimated tuition for the following school year, but he couldn't promise anything.
I told them I would think on it and let them know my current employer offered me a sizeable raise to stay.
I received a call from their HR department saying they were rescinding their offer of employment because it seemed I was "just in this for the money" and I "asked a lot of questions about salary and my daughter's tuition."
LOL
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you pretend you want to work for an organization and money doesn't matter?
Four panels with questions. Each panel consisted of between one an ten people each from different departments. One panel was with the HR department which reviewed benefits and determines if candidates fit with the school.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They ask about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion experience.