cauldroness (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cauldroness) wrote,@ 2009-01-02 18:59:00 |
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Epic FAIL
tl;dr -- I apply for a new job. They want me to take 20 hours worth of vacation, a QUARTER of my YEARLY VACATION ALLOTMENT, over the course of 3 interviews for a job I'm not guaranteed to get. I tell them to shove it!
On October 22nd, I e-mailed a cover letter and my resume to Epic.
On November 4th, Epic contacted me regarding a phone interview, which took place on November 10th. This involved a 30 minute personality/logic assessment, and another 30 minutes speaking with HR. Because this interview was scheduled in the middle of the afternoon, I had to take approximately 3 hours off work for this interview (30 minute drive from work to home, 15 minutes to review my CL and CV, 30 minute interview, at which point it was 3:45pm, so I could have driven 30 minutes to to work... and done 45 minutes of work before turning around and driving 30 minutes home again).
On November 13th, they contacted me about a full-day, on-site interview. This was scheduled for Monday, November 24th, and required a full vacation day (8 hours). It lasted from 9am until 5:30pm.
On December 12th, Epic calls to tell me they liked me quite a lot, but they actually don't have any openings in the areas they interviewed me for (which leads me to wonder why they're interviewing people for departments that are not currently hiring? they didn't say the positions had been filled; they said they did not have any openings at all). They ask if I would come back for a 2nd interview, for two different positions. I was told this 2nd on-site interview would only take "a few hours."
On December 17th, they e-mail me to schedule my 2nd on-site interview. My "few hours" interview is from 9am until 3:30pm (that would be 6.5 hours). I e-mailed them back to remind them that I had already done 5 of the 7 activities scheduled. Epic e-mails me back to say they were wrong, I will only need to do the 2 activities I have not done before. I ask them for a new schedule.
Epic e-mails me back. My "shortened" interview is 9:30am to 3:30pm (6 hours). Uh... what? Two activities (one of which is shorter than 30 minutes) need six hours? And how did removing 5 activities only remove 30 minutes?
If I did this 2nd interview, it would be another full vacation day (8 hours), because Epic is a 45 minute drive from my work. I could literally go to work from 8:30-8:45 (15 minutes!), then leave, and come back that afternoon at 4:15pm to work 45 minutes, then go home. Which work would absolutely not let me do, since I'd be coming in for less an hour each time. They would make me take a full vacation day, and not come in at all.
I have already spent 11 hours of vacation time interviewing for Epic. I am not about to spend another 8 hours -- bringing the total amount to 19 hours of vacation. That is nearly 25%, or one-fourth, of my total vacation time FOR THE YEAR. What the hell?! I am not spending a QUARTER of my YEARLY VACATION interviewing for this job. I am just not. It's ridiculous.
Finally today I e-mailed Epic and told them, essentially, they need to figure out how to fit these two activities in a single morning or a single afternoon. If they cannot, I told them to pull my resume. I'm done with this shit. I really am. And it's their loss. I'm a total workaholic, a perfectionist, and a people-pleaser, which means I'm a great employee. I work hard, I turn in perfect work, and I make sure to keep my co-workers and superiors happy.
To be honest, the Epic has really impressed me -- with its high level of INCOMPETENCY. I swear, just about everyone I've met at Epic has been absolutely incompetent. The guy who did my phone interview was very put together and polite, and the guy I interviewed with on-site was also pretty put together (but he didn't strike me as brilliant), but the rest... Sweet geezuhs. The girls who gave the overview of Epic couldn't figure out that if you want 25 people to sit down in a room, you should have 25 chairs... not 15. The person who did the software overview kept making the system give him error messages, and could not explain parts of the programming. The person who was supposed to escort us to lunch wandered off, and left the group of 6 or so interviewees standing around wondering wtf we ought to do. The person who tested me couldn't figure out what to do when his memory stick got an angry error message from the computer -- and was shocked with my idea that I just save my work to the, gasp, desktop.
Just not impressed. Or happy, to be honest. I think I'll stick with my current job, kthnxbai.
tl;dr -- I apply for a new job. They want me to take 20 hours worth of vacation, a QUARTER of my YEARLY VACATION ALLOTMENT, over the course of 3 interviews for a job I'm not guaranteed to get. I tell them to shove it!
On October 22nd, I e-mailed a cover letter and my resume to Epic.
On November 4th, Epic contacted me regarding a phone interview, which took place on November 10th. This involved a 30 minute personality/logic assessment, and another 30 minutes speaking with HR. Because this interview was scheduled in the middle of the afternoon, I had to take approximately 3 hours off work for this interview (30 minute drive from work to home, 15 minutes to review my CL and CV, 30 minute interview, at which point it was 3:45pm, so I could have driven 30 minutes to to work... and done 45 minutes of work before turning around and driving 30 minutes home again).
On November 13th, they contacted me about a full-day, on-site interview. This was scheduled for Monday, November 24th, and required a full vacation day (8 hours). It lasted from 9am until 5:30pm.
On December 12th, Epic calls to tell me they liked me quite a lot, but they actually don't have any openings in the areas they interviewed me for (which leads me to wonder why they're interviewing people for departments that are not currently hiring? they didn't say the positions had been filled; they said they did not have any openings at all). They ask if I would come back for a 2nd interview, for two different positions. I was told this 2nd on-site interview would only take "a few hours."
On December 17th, they e-mail me to schedule my 2nd on-site interview. My "few hours" interview is from 9am until 3:30pm (that would be 6.5 hours). I e-mailed them back to remind them that I had already done 5 of the 7 activities scheduled. Epic e-mails me back to say they were wrong, I will only need to do the 2 activities I have not done before. I ask them for a new schedule.
Epic e-mails me back. My "shortened" interview is 9:30am to 3:30pm (6 hours). Uh... what? Two activities (one of which is shorter than 30 minutes) need six hours? And how did removing 5 activities only remove 30 minutes?
If I did this 2nd interview, it would be another full vacation day (8 hours), because Epic is a 45 minute drive from my work. I could literally go to work from 8:30-8:45 (15 minutes!), then leave, and come back that afternoon at 4:15pm to work 45 minutes, then go home. Which work would absolutely not let me do, since I'd be coming in for less an hour each time. They would make me take a full vacation day, and not come in at all.
I have already spent 11 hours of vacation time interviewing for Epic. I am not about to spend another 8 hours -- bringing the total amount to 19 hours of vacation. That is nearly 25%, or one-fourth, of my total vacation time FOR THE YEAR. What the hell?! I am not spending a QUARTER of my YEARLY VACATION interviewing for this job. I am just not. It's ridiculous.
Finally today I e-mailed Epic and told them, essentially, they need to figure out how to fit these two activities in a single morning or a single afternoon. If they cannot, I told them to pull my resume. I'm done with this shit. I really am. And it's their loss. I'm a total workaholic, a perfectionist, and a people-pleaser, which means I'm a great employee. I work hard, I turn in perfect work, and I make sure to keep my co-workers and superiors happy.
To be honest, the Epic has really impressed me -- with its high level of INCOMPETENCY. I swear, just about everyone I've met at Epic has been absolutely incompetent. The guy who did my phone interview was very put together and polite, and the guy I interviewed with on-site was also pretty put together (but he didn't strike me as brilliant), but the rest... Sweet geezuhs. The girls who gave the overview of Epic couldn't figure out that if you want 25 people to sit down in a room, you should have 25 chairs... not 15. The person who did the software overview kept making the system give him error messages, and could not explain parts of the programming. The person who was supposed to escort us to lunch wandered off, and left the group of 6 or so interviewees standing around wondering wtf we ought to do. The person who tested me couldn't figure out what to do when his memory stick got an angry error message from the computer -- and was shocked with my idea that I just save my work to the, gasp, desktop.
Just not impressed. Or happy, to be honest. I think I'll stick with my current job, kthnxbai.
