Advice for Yonkers interviewees: • If you are interviewing in Yonkers and are taking Metro-North, go to the Greystone stop. It is much closer to the Montefiore campus than the Yonkers station. No one will tell you this when they send you your interview confirmation. • Uber is available to and from the train. No need to walk up to the closest street – they will come down to the train. • If you are tempted to put your jacket and interview shoes on in the taxi don’t do it! It’s a windy, twisty road and you will just get knocked around in the cab. • And seriously, unless you’re interviewing for the role of CEO or Comptroller, don’t even bother wearing a suit or nice shoes. • In any case, there is a lovely Starwood Hotel right next to the complex, where they will offer you free coffee, tea, water, comfy seats, and a nice rest room to change in. Take advantage of this! • The Montefiore HR person will likely tell you that you are interviewing at 200 Corporate Road. This is not quite right, and if you’re like me, you’ll be waiting there for a while until someone directs you to a building on the other side of the complex (I think it’s #175). • When you finally get to your destination, there will be no one there to greet you. Why do they have the interviews in Yonkers? Couldn’t they do the interviews in the Bronx?? In any case, if you’re lucky, someone will be exiting the building and will let you in. • You might be tempted, at this point, to get a drink of water from the “waiting area” – don’t bother – there are no cups there. You might also be tempted to ask to use a rest room, but again, there won’t be anyone there to greet you to let you in, so there is no one to ask. Ideally, you have had your water and used the restroom at the Starwood Suites (I can’t recommend them highly enough there!) • If you’re waiting a long time without anyone coming to greet you, and believe me you will be, you might be tempted to try to contact your HR rep. Again, don’t bother. She won’t answer the phone and then will just send you a snarky note to tell you that she knows you’re there. • Another nice person might at this point notice you’ve been sitting there a long time and offer to show you where the interview conference room is. I don’t know if this is necessary, but I took the opportunity to wait in the conference room. My interviewers finally came in about 10 minutes late, dressed super-casually, I might add. I felt like a moron for dressing up for the interview. Lesson learned, I guess. • My interviewees would be my managers and seemed uncomfortable with the process. Why not have an HR person there if you are holding interviews at the HR headquarters??? Anyway, cookie-cutter questions: Why you? Why Maimonides? What was your hardest case last year? Snooze… After 35 minutes the interview was over. • Now, if you’re like me, and have to take a day off of work to take the Metro-North ($16.50) up to Yonkers for an interview and pay for an Uber back and forth ($16) from the train, you might want to determine beforehand if this job is a really good fit for you before making this journey. Another lesson learned, I guess? I’m not sure. • Having some time to kill after the interview, I went back to Starwood Suites to change my clothes, get another (FREE!) cup of coffee and sit in a comfy chair in blessed air conditioning. The ladies room there has a HUGE garbage bin which was handy for me to toss all the paperwork I had brought with me to make sure I had done ample research on the company. • Seriously, the best part of that day was the time I spent in the Starwood Suite lobby. They were super-awesome there. I should check to see if they need any social workers…