This was a disappointing and frustrating experience. I was excited about the possibility to work at the foundation. I interviewed for a singular position for a specific org within it. I had 7 interviews with 6 people. I spent hours preparing and took PTO days for the interviews. While I was interviewing, there was plenty of communication and they almost seemed to rush the process, with little notice for some interviews.
My last interview was on the last day of the month, and I was told I made it to the final round. When I didn’t hear back in the timeframe that was given, I went on LinkedIn to search for the role title. I figured if they had hired someone else I would see it because, according to them, there was no one else in this role and it was a new title. I found someone who had worked for them for several years who had transferred into the same org with the exact title/job description I had interviewed for the very month I had been interviewing. So it’s impossible I was being considered for the role if someone had already been transferred into it before I finished my interviews. I was just a box that needed to be check for required external candidate interviews - which I’ve heard is a policy there. So the rushed process makes sense.
And I had to reach out twice just to get them to confirm I didn’t get it.
I have no issues investing my time and energy into interviewing and not getting the job. It’s part of the process. To reach out and initiate an interview process, to get someone's hopes up, and have them spend that much time and energy preparing and waiting to hear back on a job that’s already taken, so people can check a box on their own job task list is unethical.
