Initial call from recruiter to set up phone screen, phone screen, interview with adjacent manager, interview with hiring manager and team member who would be training new hire, found out final decision in about a week
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Was there a time that you received feedback that surprised you? If so, what did you do with that information?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Discover (Deerfield, IL) in Jan 2023
Interview
I applied for the position on the company website. Two days later I received an interview request, and I had a Zoom interview a week later. My interview was with a senior manager, who explained that they were going to give me an overview of the department and the position. And if they thought I was a good match, I'd interview with a direct manager. To be honest, the interviewer did most of the talking. I would interject from time to time to convey that I had experience in the topic they were covering and/or to convey that I was interested in the position. The interviewer was very cordial. It sounded like the department was well-run and they had reasonable expectations for employees and deliverables. My experience with the recruitment team wasn't as smooth. I was working with a recruiter and a scheduling coordinator. One week after my interview, I received an email from the scheduling coordinator asking for a second interview. I was to send a preferred day and time to the scheduler. I did that and I received an interview confirmation. I then received a message from the scheduling coordinator saying that the second interview request was sent in error, and they were still doing initial interviews. I was supposed to disregard the message. Then the day I had scheduled my second interview (the one that they cancelled), I received an email from the scheduling coordinator saying that they had to reschedule the intervew and they would send me a new interview date and time. (?) I was confused so I sent an email to the recruiter requesting clarification, and heard nothing back. A couple weeks later I received an automated rejection email saying I wasn't moving forward in the process.
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I was asked standard stuff, such as tell me about yourself.
Smooth, and everyone was very kind. Everyone was pleasant to talk to. They had been working in Discover for a while and had worked their way to being where they were from being customer representatives.
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The questions were not the typical, "Why do you want to work here" they were questions that asked you about how your values aligned to theirs. Like innovation and creativity