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Met first with CEO of this agency and this went extremely well. Next I met with VP of Demand Generation who showed up almost fifteen minutes late. I emailed the person in HR a few minutes into the call to make sure everything was ok? My Zoom window clearly showed, "Host has joined. We've let them know you're here." So I was on standby for almost fifteen minutes. Once this person joined they acted like the delay had been my fault. Then they went on to ask vague, open-ended questions that didn't seem to have much thought or effort put into them. To add injury to insult, the call went over the allotted hour (again probably due to the fact that the VP was fifteen minutes late to the call!). Never was this person's mistake acknowledged to either: (1) reschedule the call, (2) take into account the lack of professionalism and disruption that something like that can do to an interview process.

I had an interview with a Creative Director in 2022, which went fairly well. I was invited to the next round, which was a time-consuming, unpaid, design project. I was instructed to submit my branding pitch via email, and was told that I would hear back about scheduling a presentation of my project to a panel. They ghosted me after I submitted the work, and ignored my 2 follow-up emails asking for an update or feedback. At best, they are unorganized and disrespectful, and at worse they mined free labor from many job seekers. I'm sure their interview process reflects their wider business practices.