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There were a lot of questions about what I would do in certain situations, and if I had ever experienced some very specific things. Then he started asking about specific dates of when I graduated high school, started college, etc. as to try to calculate my age. He stepped away to get water and I saw a note in his notebook that said something like “too young.” Then he later said that I was answering all the questions right and had great experience but that the board would laugh at how young I look. He said he’d have to tell them to close their eyes and listen to what I was saying to take me seriously. He commented that he knew HR wouldn’t like that but that he was really struggling with my age. He asked if I was being considered for other management roles and I confirmed, and he was shocked because of how young I am.
Do you really believe we carefully reviewed any applications, let alone yours, before rejecting you?
What is your past experience?
If I were handling a difficult client, what would be my strategy.
What are your salary requirements for future job roles?
After the initial meeting with a very lovely HR lady you are asked, which is shocking, to submit a very long and for Lingokids extremely profitable exercise that takes years of experience to write and at least 3 days to plan and write. And it is full of free ideas they can use, free of charge. For this particular role over 1000 people applied, so if they asked 100 of them to submit ideas that comes to over 500 free ideas from the best creatives at the top of their game. How much is that worth? A million? Two? The most shocking bit is after working for free telling them how they should do their relaunch during the third interview the people interviewing you will happily admit they have not seen your CV, open your portfolio or looked at the documents 100s of people worked on for free. In my experience, whenever someone asks you for an "assignment" during an interview it is a scam to get free ideas, but never has it been as obvious as it was with Lingokids. During the actual interview the people forced to sit on it yawned and looked bored throughout it, which is incredibly unprofessional. This was the 3rd interview, so if they thought the candidate was not fit for the role that should have been said after the first one and before asking them to work for days for free on a valuable document they did not bother to read.
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