This was the most disorganized and drawn-out interview process I’ve ever experienced. Over two months, I interviewed with five different people. After my first interview, the Senior Graphic Designer (the only designer on the team) quit. She’d been there less than a year. Based on Glassdoor reviews, the previous designer also left within a year, which says a lot. After two interviews, they changed the role and interviewed me again. Then after the third, they changed the role again and brought me in for a fourth. Following that, they assigned a three-part design test, which I had to present during the fifth and final interview. Despite being a 10-year-old company, they still have no brand guidelines. Yet they found the time to develop an extensive design test that took hours to complete, with zero assets provided—no logo, fonts, or imagery. I was required to create and present speculative work from scratch. The first question they asked during my presentation? “Was it fun?” The people reviewing my work were not designers, and it showed. Their feedback reflected a lack of design literacy and a dismissive attitude toward the work and ideas that go into design. Throughout the process, they expected flexibility, patience, and professionalism, but offered none of that in return. To be fair, the HR person was very pleasant to deal with. But marketing came across as curt and entitled, which made the overall experience very unpleasant and showed me what it would have been like to report to them.