I was connected with JP Morgan by an external recruiter. My first call was for a role on the Infrastructure Development team. The interviewer did not introduce himself, explain what his role was, or what his team did; he simply jumped into asking for my background and then started drilling me with Java and React questions for the full thirty minutes allotted. No time was left for questions. At the end of the thirty minutes, he told me he wanted to get his boss on the call (mind you, they only asked for thirty minutes!) and had me wait there for five minutes while the interviewer typed. Eventually, the interviewer said he couldn't get a hold of his boss, so how did the rest of my afternoon look? I wasn't available, so he said he would set up time for me to interview with his boss later. The implication here being that although they had set up a 30-minute interview, if he had been able to get a hold of his boss, he would have just kept interviewing without even asking me if I was available beyond the time they had asked for! I don't mind interviewing for a full hour if asked in advance, but the lack of respect for my time was not great.

Combined with how he didn't even introduce himself or his team or seem in any way personable, I wrote back to the recruiter that if he was the hiring manager, I wasn't interested. The recruiter apologized and asked if I would be willing to speak to another person at JP Morgan, who was interested in hearing how they could make their interview experience better and maybe sell me on a different team. I said OK, so a time was set up for 2 PM to chat.

2 PM comes and goes, and finally at 2:15 I get a text from the person I was supposed to talk to, asking if we can "chat later." I immediately replied to let him know I was only available from 2:30 to 3; I did not get a reply back. At 2:50, this guy finally calls me out of the blue and doesn't even acknowledge or apologize that he was 50 minutes late! Being late and rescheduling was not great, but I would have at least appreciated acknowledging the inconvenience.

Prior to this, I was open to giving JP Morgan feedback on the interview process and would have considered other roles, but that felt disrespectful of my time, especially given that this call was set up in part to talk about how they can do better.

When I pointed this out to him, he merely focused on how I shouldn’t count out JP Morgan on “one bad experience”--but this was actually two! I reiterated, being late and rescheduling our call added to my poor experience. He still didn’t apologize or acknowledge being late at all, so I finally told him I was not interested in the company. He gave me a hard sell about JP Morgan and that I should reconsider, making it sound like I was foolishly passing up on a career opportunity. He wanted to know if we could set up more time to talk through my experience and other roles further. Never once acknowledged or apologized for being late.

No thanks. I would rather spend that time interviewing elsewhere.

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