Scheduled a phone call with the direct report. Called me a couple minutes late, was in a noisy area so could hear people moving around in the background. Disrupted the call for a bit. Interview process was generic, talk about your background. The only questions asked of me were about hiring, training, and firing people. Retention of employees basically. Things my manager would say about me good/bad. What was odd was that he did not ask me if I had any questions and went into the salary for the role rightaway. I thought it was odd and told me someone would be in touch with me about an assignment. The person who sent me the assignment sent it before my call was even done. I am compeltely cool with doing assignemnts and they gave me a 48 hour window to do it, but once I saw it, clearly fishing for ideas. Why make me do a go-to-market strategy when the role says nothing about that? The guidelines were terrible too. No metrics at all. It simply said how would make a $1M in revenue in a year with a 90 day strategy into a new market. I told them I was out and I got a response 2 days later without a signature. I knew I did the right thing. And looking at the job postings they posted the job again recently because their "other 5" candidates they were talking to must've pulled out. Salary is below market and I am not about to give great ideas to a company without a guarantee of going further with them. Sketch

The interviewer was very friendly and it was more of a conversation than a Q&A interview which I really liked. She walked me through who I'd be reporting to, working with and more about the job. I was able to ask all my questions at the end as well.