On another note. Went to an "interview" today.
Quick background, just recently finished up my engineering degree finally, went to a recent local career fair and have been working through my backlog of places I spoke with to apply to.
Anyway, this place calls me up before I had a chance to follow-up from the fair based on the conversation I had with the recruiter there.
Have a bit of a chat with the HR person, we're discussing 'career opportunities' over any specific posting and it is made clear that similar to the discussion with the recruiter that their business development side is where I'd like to branch my career into. Basically I've always had very technical roles, but I enjoy people interactions and big picture scenarios and problem solving more than going down the rabbit hole of design and development.
Set up a meeting with the office manager for today to discuss the potential, etc. Get there and apparently the office manager hasn't looked at my resume nor has he been relayed any of the information from the previous discussions.
So after the quick five minute or so review of my resume and my general career goals, comes to the same conclusion regarding business development being the next step for me. Though his rationale is that because he feels I realize I'm at an age now where I can't keep up with the 'kids' with respect to how technology changes and design.
Anyway, at this point he's like yeah there is potential for you here but our BD team is away at a conference this week, so there's no one really to follow-up with today. He calls up someone else who turns out to be the original recruiter I talked to, who provides me with their standard 'test' for BD applicants which was to summarize a two page technical whitepaper into a few paragraphs within twenty minutes.
I do this, he says that the next step is they'll forward the resume and my summary I wrote to the BD team, he thanks me for my time and says they'll contact me Monday or Tuesday next week to potentially schedule a follow up interview. Asks me if I had any other questions... So I at least ask for a quick tour of the place.
Basically it kinda confirmed to me that the negative glassdoor /indeed reviews were fairly close to the mark and not just disgruntled former employees.
Bright side, just got a call from another place I'd rather work for an interview.