They don't seem to have a coherent process. It appears as though they are flying by the seat of their pants. First you apply on the company website. It took about 4 days from my application being turned in to receive a phone call. They has me go through two different phone screens, the first one with their owner. The next one with the guy the owner hired to manage the inspectors on a day to day basis. These two phone conversations were exactly one week apart. They were virtually duplicates of each other in terms of questions. I really felt like two of the same conversations were unnecessary. They said they needed to hire 3 inspectors over the next two months, I took that as a positive sign. Over a week went by before they scheduled an in person interview. They wanted to meet at a Starbucks closer to them. I get their on time and meet the manager waiting for me. He says the owner is on his way but will be late. I don't know about you but I find this sort of thing unprofessional. If you make a time for an interview, be on time or don't make it to begin with. It shows disrespect. I notice the manager is sitting at a table in Starbucks with nothing but his computer. He says I can feel free to get a coffee or something. I say I will get a coffee real fast but notice he doens't get up to get one as well. I know this is subtle, but I find it extremely odd that a group would take a table in a coffee shop to perform an interview and not order a single thing. In addition, since I said I would have a coffee, he doesn't offer to pay for it, which I get a regular coffee which is like 2 dollars. So I go for an interview and they won't buy my coffee, and they still take up a table at this establishment and don't order anything for themselves? I found this to be super bizarre. I get my coffee and sit down. The manager decides to go ahead and start since the owner will be so late. So we begin talking about by background. I am a newly licensed inspector and am looking for experience, they say they hire newly licensed inspectors often, and have several members of the team that are brand new inspectors. The starting training salary would be 30k per year, for a few months, until you go out on your own and then they only split maybe 100-130$ per inspection, but would load you up with so many you'd probably maybe make 60k a year. It sounds like 50 hour weeks based upon what they said, but they were intentionally being vague about pay, saying "there's ancillary services you can add on that increase your pay." Later the owner said "in the ballpark of 60-80k." To me that translated to "you work your butt off for 60k, but whatever, that sounded fine to me, I'm willing to do that. I can't remember that many specific questions, but I found the manager to be a rather awkward character. I think they legitimately have very bad social skills. Anyway, the owner gets their probably 20 minutes or so late and starts asking me questions we had already gone over. Whats more frustrating is they're asking me questions we had already talked about over the phone, twice. So here I am int his starbucks with these guys, they're asking me questions and I'm having to answer them for a third time. I'm pretty laid back generally, but all of this put together is somewhat ridiculous. We are there for an hour total. We finish talking, they never order anything of course, and they say they have a timeline for hiring end of April, early May. They say they like me, and the next step is to have a shadow day where I would accompany two inspectors for two different inspections, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. They aren't sure, however when that would be. I wait probably two weeks for a phone call. I have to call the manager to remind him and ask when that might be. They finally schedule it. So far, it's been a month since my initial application at this point. I go on two ride alongs. The first inspection had a gas leak, and we had to vacate the premises. I do the second shadow/ride along, it goes fine. And that's it for the ride alongs, no next steps mentioned. I get an email a few days later from the manager again saying I need to do ANOTHER ride along because the morning one I had done had a gas leak and the inspection wasn't completed. So the Next week I go on another one. This one goes well also, and that's it again. No next step. No phone calls. More than week goes by. I try emailing the manager. He emails me back saying they're looking through their notes, and will get back to the applicants within the NEXT WEEK OR SO. After weeks I call a few times. The manager says "we dont' have the bandwith to hire someone without experience at the moment, we will keep you in mind." Which is BS because they knew my experience level before they made me go on 3 different ride alongs across 2 different days. They should reimburse me for gas at least. They are super disorganized.
