Adara Networks interview questions

For a phone interview process it was quite robust and even a bit awkward experience. Once the staffing representative submitted my resume, they front loaded me that it was a salaried position serving not one executive but two. And for the same salary I had received previously assisting one executive only. I liked what I read about the company and we set a time that week to chat for 30 minutes. At first I was confused why a CFO and CEO would be conducting a phone screening. That’s usually your HR rep or another staff members job to simply get an idea of the candidates experience and personality. None the less, I was called by Lilian whom was the CFO I believe, about 10 minutes after our scheduled time. She patched the CEO, Joe in and that took about 5 minutes do do as the line wouldn’t go through. Right then I realized that about 15 minutes of our 30 minutes was already up. The first question they asked me after knowing this was to explain how my background applies to the main functions of this role. This was not a question that I have ever, in my 7 years background professional experience been asked on a phone screening. I scrambled to speak as clear but fast as I could, then, Joe stopped me and told me to slow down in speaking and take my time in responding. The next question, about what types of applications and software programs I’ve used, was also another extensive question. We ran out of time and their tone immediately changed where they were slightly negative that the phone screening ran over and they were trying to decide to bring me in for an in person. Almost as if it was my fault the screening ran over. I guess this is the reason CEO’s and CFO’s should not be doing this directly, especially as they’re busy people themselves and should be doing other things of value to their company. Not low level priority task like talking to a hiring candidate over the phone or only making final decisions through the phone? And not actual interviews. I hope they had luck staffing a 2-for-1 administrative executive position. Great company, I’m sure good people but bad process.