This was a very disappointing experience. One month after a brief but pleasant telephone interview, they contacted me and scheduled another phone call with the person in charge of hiring (not the same person I had spoken to the first time). He had the personality of an unbaked potato, merely reading off useless questions from a checklist. I made a reference to my video library (the link of which is on my resume and on the index page of my website) and he didn't know what I was referring to because he hadn't viewed it. After the checklist, he said that he's requiring all applicants to take a "design test" which involved creating a new design and then creating five templates based on that design -- brochure, case study, social post, email header/footer, and webpage. Good grief. To make matters worse, the design had to be created entirely from guesswork as he refused to provide any direction whatsoever other than vague adjectives like "clean" and "creative" and the files he provided from their "brand" were useless. I do not work for free in the hopes that someone will possibly consider thinking about maybe becoming potentially interested in meeting me. I also do not perform any kind of work (paid or free) based on guesswork as that's just a recipe for disaster (he even admitted that several candidates had done "too much" and "too little"). I emailed them the next morning stating that I was withdrawing as a candidate. (Of course, he visited my LinkedIn profile later that day -- seriously, why do this?) Another sad display of how the hiring process in America has become a complete joke.