LogFAQs > #970833464

So I applied for something recently, and I'll admit that I'm getting just slightly by the entire process, especially compared to application processes that I've gone through in the past.

To quickly summarize:

On Tuesday evening, around 8PM, I applied for a communications position. The position didn't initially raise any red flags, so I applied since it's roughly what I'm looking for. By 8:30AM the next morning, I had heard back from them to set up an interview, and when I missed the initial text message, they quickly texted again telling me that they were filling up positions for Zoom interviews quickly and that I should schedule mine soon before they filled up.

It was a little weird, with the quick turnaround and needing signups for interviews, but sure, I went ahead and picked a time for earlier today and did the interview.

The interview itself was bizarrely brief, maybe lasting ten minutes in total with a really basic discussion and questions (very basic info about the company, what strengths do you think you'd bring to this position, if you could dine with one person in human history who would you choose), and then it was wrapped up. That in itself felt a bit strange, as I've never had an interview that was that brief, but it was allegedly an initial interview, so I shrugged it off.

Just a bit over an hour later, I got a call from someone other than the person I spoke with in the Zoom interview telling me that I did well in my initial interview and that they wanted to schedule me for a second interview the next day. (Which...is a little strange in itself, most interviews that I've done are during standard business hours, not on weekends, but sure?) I already have plans for tomorrow that I can't really move around, so I asked if I could do the second interview at another point, and the person seemed a bit put off but eventually said that I could do it Tuesday morning.

So at this point, I was feeling just very vaguely uneasy - between the ridiculously quick turnaround, the oddly brief interview, and the odd reaction to me having plans for tomorrow.

At that point, I decided to look into the company just a bit more because a few alarm bells were going off. They do have a site, but it's extremely barebones and doesn't offer much beyond some stock photos and some fairly generic company mission phrases. A bit more research showed me that the name of the company was registered under a year ago (February 2022), and there's nothing about them on Indeed, Glassdoor, or the Better Business Bureau, with only a fairly basic LinkedIn profile aside from their own site.

Their listed address does exist as part of a complex of office spaces for rent, but I couldn't find any independent confirmation that they're actually there. Google Maps didn't list it as one of the businesses at that precise address, and the site for the office space listed a space for rent, but I can't seem to confirm if it's that precise unit or not. Googling the phone number for the company offered literally nothing except for the company's own site.

So what I'm left with is being kind of unsure if I'm dealing with a super new company which isn't findable online because it's under a year old and which is just ridiculously efficient with the interview process, or a scam. I've encountered a scam listing in the past before some red flags went up and I did more research and backed the fuck out, but I can't find much of anything on this one.

Any input? I'm a little bit torn here, because I'm like, very mildly put off by a lot of the entire process, but it's possible that they're just genuinely a new company and legitimately in need of urgent hiring. But it all seems a bit too good to be true, and the super rushed process and lack of hard information that I can find about them has me a little bit uneasy. If anyone has any thoughts on the whole thing, I'd love to get a second opinion here.