Pros
zero. They completely wasted my time.
Cons
I had an 'interview' with Montash. Following a short Teams interview, I was invited to their basement HQ in Shoreditch. Once there, I waited for around half an hour to be taken to their kitchen and told I'd be playing some 'fun games'. These games were an hour-long cognitive test. Having studied the use of these tests in interview settings as part of my degree, I know they offer absolutely no insight into an employee's motivations, work ethic, personality or abilities. The primary aim of these tests is to reduce a human to numbers, discontinuing them because they cannot recall moving blue dots in a pressurised and nerve-racking environment. To me, this is laziness on the talent acquisition team's part. Following an hour of trying to recall flashing dots, I was instructed to do a 'pitch' as they why I would be good for the job. This was absolutely fine by me until I was informed the point of this exercise was so the interviewer didn't have to ask me questions. Considering this was supposed to be a job interview, I was very confused. Had they followed up with a traditional interview, looking to get to know me as a transient human, I would have understood. However, this was not the case. After spending two hours with this company playing games and waiting, I was later informed that I didn't get the job because I was a girl and therefore would disrupt the dynamics of the team as the existing team was all blokes. This is something that they knew before they wasted two hours of my day by asking me to jump through their irrelevant hoops. Aside from the time wasted, I'm pretty sure discontinuing someone based on their gender is not okay anymore? I don't know, maybe I'm too progressive in my thinking, but the concept of having a mixed-gender team seems like a normal thing to me. Apparently not for Montash. Overall, I'm pretty shocked but it's a major bullet swerved.