A little back story, I have 10-12 YEO, depending on if you want to count my time during grad school at a Private Wealth advisory in Stamford as a real job, though it's basically being an advisor, had my 7 and 66, and all my insurance exams. Anyway, I seem to have plateaued at my current company due to a reorg and the new ownership group hiring their teams from prior places. Started back into the interview game. Looking at the right below the director level or at the smaller CRE shops director level. A friend and former co-worker got me an interview, it was helping build out their FP&A team, modeling, etc. Took them 2 months to set up the interview due to slow communication. I came in prepped with general knowledge of the company, but all my technicals for the FP&A side. The interviewer was 8 minutes late to logging into the interview and clearly texting and emailing during the interview. She stopped at one point, and 1 of 2 questions was about the company's platform, which I asked do you want me to sell the platform or the fundamentals and they said I hadn't prepared. Honestly, now that I slept on it I'm pissed they wasted my time and the experience.
I like my former colleague, but if I get negative feedback, I'm having a hard time holding back from laying into them. It's been a while since I interviewed, so can candidates also give feedback? I don't want anything coming back on my friend.
Let your colleague know, in a respectful way, he didnt do the interview. But, he deserves follow up and feedback imo for his company.
HR can not be replaced by AI fast enough.
This wasn't with HR this was with the hiring manager
That's not a team you want to be on. It tells me the position they are "hiring" for isn't real.
Complete joke absolutely let them know these are peoples lives HR is playing with here...
Quick side story since we're on the topic of dogshit interviews.
Got on a call with the Co-PM of a public L/S strategy housed inside a large publicly traded PE firm. This guy asks me ONE question the entire interview. ONE! And he clearly hadn't even thought it through himself before dialing in as he was literally workshopping it with me in real time!!
"How would you determine revenue for a company that sells into data centers?" Then "what about margins?" Zero context. Nothing else.
Bro WHAT. Is this Modine selling HVAC? Is this Nvidia selling GPUs? GWW selling fucking construction matts to the build sites?!!?? Are we talking constrained supply or excess capacity???
The question is completely meaningless without a setup and this guy is just staring at me waiting for an answer and after annoyingly walking thru 2 example for 2 different types of businesses he sat there blankly for an unreasonable amount of time... I was already in a pissy mood due to a busy conference season and also knew I had zero interest in working for this jackass.
So I told straight said "before moving on just wanted to let you know it would have been helpful had you came prepared with an actual example instead of making me pull your teeth for basic context on every question..."
Call ended pretty quickly after that. Blacklisted, I'm sure. Couldn't care less. Hope that strategy blows up.
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