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If you kept the conversation moving along; you did good. Glad you made it just a conversation between 2 people. I wonder if the decision was already made and it was just a formality. Good luck 🍀
Thank you! It was a strange one for sure - at the time it felt like it was a double-edged sword. I’d look too pushy or maybe not interested enough for moving the conversation along; too uninterested if I didn’t.
I did wonder that, too, about it being a formality. Thank you for your insights. 😊
She may be planning to tender her resignation or already has with another opportunity lined up, and filling the open position you interviewed for is one item on her to-do list before she can entirely check out. Or maybe she’s a terrible interviewer having a really bad day. No matter what, you stepped up and carried both roles for the meeting. Good luck on the job!
Thank you! I tried and that’s all I could do. One of those rare interviews where I really felt like I couldnt have done anything differently.
Did try to mentally give her benefit of the doubt - hadn’t considered that she might’ve been looking/leaving, too!
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Sounds like she's overwhelmed. Question is, is this how she is always? Bad day? Bad month? Bad year?
Is it reflective of her personality, work style, work ethic? Reflective of the company? Reflective of just her attitude to this particular interview or role?
Seems this was a negative experience. The challenge is determining how general or specific this experience is. Hard to do without more info about her and the company.
Thank you for your thoughts! Just wanted to say I replied yesterday but looks like it went on as a new comment rather than under your thread. Appreciate your insights. :)
Thank you, yes! It was challenging to kind of find the right context or frame for it, and consider how this may or may not be a symptom of something bigger.
I did already have some slight reservations from an earlier interview where the talent manager asked me for my expected salary, and then 35mins later just before the end she said “By the way you’ll be considered a FTE but this will essentially be a B2B transaction, like you’ll have to pay your own taxes etc, that’s okay with you right?” Which I feel that should’ve been made clear first of all if not in the job posting, then definitely at least BEFORE they asked me for my expected salary.
At the time I’d just said yes I’ve invoiced as a contractor before, and I decided to raise this at a later interview and negotiate the rate as the situation is different. But it did dampen my enthusiasm for it a bit.
For context, don’t want to kiss and tell, but they are an design agency subscription/SaaS business. For a subscription fee they form a creative team for a business and essentially it’s outsourcing your marketing production. SaaS comes in because they’ve developed their own platform where clients can project manage the production.
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Would be curious to know which company. I've subscribed to Penji, Design Pickle, and considering Dude. Would be helpful to know which ones are kinda messy behind the scenes. Feel free to DM me.
I’m seeing some red flags in your posts — in case that’s not obvious to you!
Yes, totally! I had my eyes set on this as sort of a worse comes to worst situation. I kept going just in case I needed to take this on for a while, while continuing to look. I felt the situation around the employee/contractor thing would be tolerable if it meant being able to get back to them about my rate and working with a good team, even for just a while. But after that interview, if they made me an offer, I would turn it down.
Maybe she didn’t realize she had an interview. I’d question whether you want to work for her??? If she wasn’t engaged how hard will it be to work with her?
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Red flag. If they can’t get their shit together why would I want to join them?