Crossover has an interesting process where you take some tests, then perform some so-called "real work", then wait to get an interview ... which doesn't happen and the role gets cancelled. A note on the tests; I see lots of people on here complaining the IQ test is hard or silly, and even, shockingly, web sites selling answers to it or whatever. Look, that test is simple pattern matching and I find it relaxing and fun, to be truthful. Just look for the patterns. For instance, one time it's a solid circle, triangle, and ball, then the next line has a hollow triangle, hollow ball ... so the missing one is clearly the hollow circle, and so on. Anyhow, that aside, these tests are kind of fun. The real work section is a farce though. They ask you to put aside several hours to work through things like, e.g., what are the budget abnormalities for an acquired entity. Or where are the bottlenecks in the first call resolution on the help desk. Or, other things. Once they had me watch this video with two atrocious communicators who laboured over how the help desk works. They were so bad I thought they can't be actors and wondered if they were real staff. When I Google'd their names they were actual real high up execs of the company - yet on the video they were hardly the calibre you expect of an executive. They were poor speakers, all kinds of things. Nevertheless, you submit these "real world" tasks and sometimes they get rejected in seconds to minutes. As if somebody has really read it! It's offensive to ask you to spend so much time on something that is free-text and then ignored because ... what? You didn't use a specific keyword? Who knows. And, other times they get approved. Then you wait for someone to review your application ... wait and wait. The Crossover site says the next step after review is an interview. They say if you haven't heard from then in two weeks to ask. You wait ... and then two weeks later submit an enquiry. Oh, nobody gets back to you. Instead they cancel the role !!! I searched and found online that what happens is they don't actually have all these vast quantity of jobs they spam on LinkedIn. No, instead they simply have fake ads to get a pool of talent - and when you get to the "review" part is when they try to put you in some bid process and see if they can pitch you to employees. Crossover says this is the future of work. Yet, it's not. They don't have customers wanting people who have gone through this process. Instead, it's only their own companies like Topogi or Trinity that they are "selling" to. Now, one time the role wasn't cancelled. I did get a 30-minute interview with some guy. 30 minutes for an SVP role. He was late then forgot to turn his webcam on so I was talking to a blank screen for half the time before he realised. Yet, the person he was looking for (his words) was not actually the position description for the role I'd applied for. It was something else. That wouldn't be so bad, except I then had to guess what he was after based on his brief description and a couple of short questions, while being mindful that we only had 30 minutes total and it was hard to go into depth due to the constraint. In the end they didn't offer me this role, and while I'm not surprised, it was really a poor interview experience. They're asking me to prove my value for a role I'd never heard of before with only 30 minutes time total to learn about it and answer some questions? Even though I'd passed all their other tests - oh, except they weren't relevant because the interviewer was after a different kind of person. It's simply that I was in their bid pool - because I applied for a job that was clearly non-existant.
