A recruiter from BIGO reached out to me directly, offering me a position as a Community Manager. The initial process went smoothly, and after clearing the first round, they scheduled a second interview with the internal manager.
I attended the interview at their office, where I was interviewed by two managers for about half an hour. Shortly after, the recruiter contacted me to confirm I had passed and moved to a third interview with a chinese regional manager and he explicitly stated, "Pass the Chinese regional manager interview and the job is yours," adding that there was "no competition."
I did the third interview with the regional manager and I passed it. Instead of finalizing the offer as promised, they unexpectedly scheduled a FOURTH round interview. Despite the exhaustion of a prolonged process for a mediocre level position, I attended the final interview, presenting extensive frameworks on data management, sales skills, and customer handling techniques. The interviewer expressed strong satisfaction during the session.
Two hours later, the recruiter called me to state I was not selected, likely due to "overqualification." To make matters worse, after rejecting me, the recruiter offered me an entirely different position and demanded that I start a completely fresh interview cycle for it from scratch. I respectfully declined.
It is completely unacceptable for an HR department and five different decision-makers to review a CV, drag a candidate through four exhaustive rounds of interviews over three weeks, give verbal guarantees that the job is theirs, and then reject them at the absolute finish line.