I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at AKQA (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2020
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter about a HR opportunity with AKQA in San Francisco. I spoke with the Senior HR Manager located in Portland, OR. It was a fairly straight forward phone interview. I liked my conversation with her so, I was curious to hear more about the company and the opportunity. I was invited to go to the SF HQ to meet with the HR team and do a Zoom call with the individual in OR. There was some internal scheduling issues so, I was only able to meet with one member of the HR team and do the Zoom call. I was asked to come back for a second on site interview to meet with the rest of the HR team the two managing Partners and someone in a senior role in the Finance department .
Another scheduling issue. One of the senior Partners wasn’t available and the other one was on site at a client and it was now a phone call in a conference room. I met with the rest of the HR team. The HR team were all fairly new to the company. I enjoyed meeting them and felt I could work with this team. They seemed to need some HR leadership that weren’t really receiving.
I was asked to come in for a third in person interview to meet with the two managing Partners. The first Partner was very nice and super engaging. Asked some great questions and seemed genuinely interested in what I had to say.
My last interview was with the other Partner. Couldn’t be any different. He was ten minutes late . Continually checked his phone. Answered not one but two calls while I was in mid sentence. He left the room to take a third call. He came back asked some questions that were fairly irrelevant to the job. Complained about the current HR team. I knew right away I could not work with this person. I was told several days later they were passing because the one Partner did not like my answers. I think I laughed so hard when I heard this. I told the recruiter that would be fine if he actually asked me a question.
The interview process started out fine, with the phone interview and then the hiring manager interview. I felt the hiring manager interview went well and then the recruiter was suppose to reach out for next steps but did not. I chased the recruiter and they said the salary ask was too high for my experience but if I'd be willing to discuss a lower salary which I said was fine. But then I got completely ghosted and a couple of weeks later I got another email for a phone interview from a different recruiter for the same position and then got ghosted again. Its fine to know if the candidate is not a right fit but at least inform the candidate if they are chasing you for an answer.
Candidates applying for Human Resources Business Partner roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at AKQA overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at AKQA as a Human Resources Business Partner according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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