My first e-mail with this company was in January. A phone call was scheduled the next week, and then an interview with my team-members on-site the week after that. The interview went very well. So well, in fact, that my manager took me on a tour of the building to introduce me to all of my "co-workers."
"Now comes the waiting," he said. I should've really paid attention to that.
Every week for the text TWO MONTHS I emailed the HR rep to ask if they had made a decision. I was told to wait while they circled back with the team. Finally, after months of waiting, I was told "the position is being put 'on hold' for now."
It was obvious something was going on internally, as I looked up the manager on LinkedIn shortly after and saw that he had changed job to something other than RAD.
So I didn't think I'd ever hear back from them. Maybe 2 months after that, the HR rep emails, says they're ready to set up a call with the manager about the position.
Great, I think. And we chat again. I'm told the job is mine, and that the delay was because I was replacing another editor who "got better" at communicating, so they decided not replace him. Then he got worse and they called me.
(Clearly, a fabrication, given what I saw on LinkedIn, and that there's no way they would'be paraded me around the office, saying I was gonna have this other employees' title, if he was still working there)
I ignore what I wrote off as a deception to save face, and begin to ask other questions about the position. But the manager seems to pause when I say I'll need a relocation package or to be able to work remotely a while.
I wait for the offer.
During this time, I check his LinkedIn to see that he is back at the position again. Again, I email the HR rep. A week after. And I'm told the "the position is being put on hold. Thanks for your patience!"
Again.
At this point, I withdrew my resume. Because the state of the company, and the absolute MESS that was the hiring process aside--management clearly doesn't understand what's necessary to function as a video editor.
I said I was willing to move way back in February, but I put it off until I was sure I had the position. When the offer never came, I never moved, but they assumed I had. I would've thought for the amount of time they strung me along, they would've had some level of understanding about needing to work with me a bit before I could get on-site. But nope. Management had made an arbitrary decision, and clearly, it was going to be enforced, regardless of how it handicapped the actual position.
To be clear: the job demanded that you be on-site, but didn't give you an editing suite. Just a laptop. And you didn't even have a personal area. No office, not even a cubicle. You were expected to edit just wherever you could find in the public space. Oh and the kicker? Everyone there only edits DaVinci Resolve.
So if you have actual experience in the field, using Premiere, After Effects or Final Cut, and like most editors, have a powerful editing suite of your own at home-- the job was going to handicap your editing skills and make you do a worse job, slower, just to appease an arbitrary rule by a management team clearly ignorant of the field.
That combined with every other review on this site, talking about how your job security is constantly threatened, and management is "abusive", told me that even if I wanted to show up just for the paycheck, my time would be miserable and short.
My ten cents: avoid.
