SCVNGR Events Planner and Executor Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – I heard back from SCVNGR's HR department mere days after sending in my application. I was invited for a phone interview, which I gladly accepted. The HR director and I had a nice informal conversation. Nothing too challenging. At the end of our talk, he invited me to come down to the Cambridge headquarters to meet some of the people in the department I was interviewing for and told me to email him some dates and times that would work.

I followed his instructions and the whole thing went downhill from there. At the time, I was working in New Hampshire and had a somewhat tight schedule. Thus, coming down to Boston was inevitably going to mean getting time off from work. Of course, I was willing to do this because the job sounded interesting, but anyone in my situation would expect the company in question to work with them on finding a good time to visit.

I went for nearly two weeks without hearing a thing back from SCVNGR, other than a vague date that might work. Having heard nothing back from my followup email (nothing persistent, just one check-in), I took a gamble, got time off of work for the date they mentioned, and drove down the night before. The next morning, I finally got in touch with the HR guy only to have him tell me that the date was not going to work (turns out he'd just come back from vacation!) Once again, he didn't throw out any concrete dates that would work, was unapologetic, and lazily mentioned that if I couldn't make it down on a later date, we could talk via Skype. He sounded tired, grumpy and desperate to cease communications with me. Unsurprisingly, I never heard from him again and didn't bother with any further inquiries.

Thankfully, I found (and got) another job shortly after, and a better one at that. What angered me most was that the guy I spoke with didn't have the courtesy (or the nerve) to tell me I wasn't a good fit, especially after implying that he was still interested in my candidacy.

In short, my interview experience with SCVNGR was terrible and I predict that they will not last long if their communication standards are this amateurish and inconsiderate.