I initially spoke with a 3rd party recruiter who stated he worked with the company for a while and had placed someone on a leadership position there, as well. After following up multiple times with the recruiter, I had a phone interview a few days later. I found this interview very clunky and the questions very basic and not fitting of the level role I was interviewing for. Follow up, or lack thereof, was horrendous. I reached out multiple times to no response. This was surprising considering The recruiters experience. As with another interviewee, the 3rd party recruiter was very disorganized, unprofessional and had very poor client control and feedback. I also received emails that were meant for others. This was not only surprising but incredibly unprofessional. It definitely put the client organization and individuals I interviewed with, in a poor light. After doing some digging, I uncovered that the environment was disorganized and the lack of attention to detail was apparent. The second person I interviewed with is no longer employed, after only being with SunSource for a short time. That speaks volumes. I would be interested to speak to current employees and past interviewees about their candidate experience, because mine was offensive. Dodged a huge bullet here big time. Definitely not the professional corporate environment I’m used to, nor the high caliber recruitment process I’ve come to expect as a tenured professional.

The process took over 2 months. Quite a few on-site interviews and several online assessments to take. This seemed like a very good company and a good match for me. I really enjoyed all the people I met with. While I was okay with their decision after many steps in the process, not being selected, I was very disappointed with the way the company conducted itself at the end of the process. After all that time and all of those interviews, I didn't even get the courtesy of a simple phone call at the end. Communication merely stopped abruptly. I was shocked given how they interacted with me during the process. I was called in for 5 on-site interviews and was subjected to 4 assessments online. The process dragged on and on. Each time, I was very flexible with my time, always accepting the first time slot offered. I was on-time/early for every meeting, turned around all the assessments quickly, always followed up with thank you's and did all I could to move the process along. In total, between interviews, assessments, travel time and prep, I likely spent a minimum of 30 hours dedicated to just this company's process alone. After all of that, I would think I would be shown the same courtesy of follow up. I was promised a response by a certain date, that date came and went. I finally reached out to the Hiring Manager who responded with a one- sentence "we're going a different direction" reply. Interviewing candidates often, I have never had someone come on-site that many times and not have a personal conversation with them at the end of the process. I truly felt disrespected. They used a third party recruiter. While he was nice enough, he was very disorganized. I often received emails that were supposed to go to another candidate. I can only assume the other person received some with my information. Interview start times were not coordinated well. I received assessment log-ins that didn't work (sent me the log-ins for the other candidate). Scheduled phone calls were missed. In the end, he was aware of my frustration over not hearing something directly and promised to confirm their decision and get back to me. I never heard anything. They seem like a good company with good people. For future interviews, they really need to create a much better candidate experience.