Gaggle Interview Questions

The first two interviews were easy and I felt very happy about them. Good people, good culture, great ideas being exchanged. Bait and switch. I then got to the final stage, where I had a hiring manager ask me more extremely specific questions than I had ever been asked before. Usually there are three stages to corporate interviews, the first is a basic screening and culture fit. The second is a technical interview to see if you have the right chops for the gig. The third is usually just a culture fit and signoff. Not the case here. This guy wanted to know who every single boss of mine was for the last -decade-, exactly which clients I worked with, what everyone would say about me now when I worked with them years and years ago, what specific numbers would they rate me. It was non stop and super assertive. I don't mind providing references (that I choose!) as, say, the final cap of an offer letter (and even that, as a technical worker I've only had that maybe once? in my career), but this information hunt was way too much and showed a huge lack of respect for the interviewee. Not only that, but this guy is wasting immense amounts of company time by doing this. There's no business decision that could be made with such incessant privacy invasion that couldn't be otherwise determined in a friendly, way more industry-standard interview process. After two and a half hours (!!!) of question after question, this guy STILL wanted names and phone numbers of every single manager I've had. At that point I was like, wait, this can't be normal. But sure enough, Glassdoor had all these other comments and I sure wish I had looked here first. While I was here I noticed Gaggle is pretty abusive toward their lower rank employees. There are things happening in these comments that should never happen in a tech company and the responses from Gaggle shows insensitivity and even brazen aggression toward them. You can treat your developers like they're gods but if the rest of the staff is treated like slaves, you're not doing well as a company. I chose to "nope" right out of it and they didn't even bother responding.

There wasn't an actual "interview". I applied for the position online and received an email stating I was added to a "waiting list". A few weeks later I was invited to start working as a "Level 1 Student Safety Representative". The pay is extremely low (and it's contract work- so big picture you are looking at MAYBE $7.00 per hour in your pocket). Also, I asked what are the chances of a Level 1 becoming a Level 2 (which is considered an actual employee) and this was the response I received "The Level 1 position is contractual while the Level 2 position is employment through the company. We do require all of our Level 2's to be local and work in the office. Therefore, we usually do not have Level 1's become Level 2's. " So, no potential for growth.

I had a phone interview and a Skype interview. They were both pretty average, but both my contacts just entirely stopped communicating with me — no feedback, no response at all. It was really, really off-putting — I think that kind of behavior casts a poor light on Gaggle’s recruiting/hiring process.