Baker Tilly interview questions

I had a phone interview with the Manager of Recruiting that went well. Two weeks later I received an email requesting my availability to visit the office and meet with the team, except about two minutes after that email, I received another one requesting my availability for a phone interview with another Recruiting team member. There was no acknowledgement of the email inviting me into the office. Following that phone interview, I did not hear from the Recruiter for 3 weeks. I sent three emails checking in over the course of those three weeks and finally, after my third attempt to check in, I received a response (albeit one that said I would receive an update soon). Advice to recruitment team: be more transparent with your candidates and keep them informed of their status throughout the process. A candidate should not have to email the Recruiter three times and not receive any sort of response for three weeks. As a Recruiter myself, I was very disappointed with the candidate experience provided by this firm. Very unprofessional, and a very disorganized recruiting process. I withdrew from the process before even finding out whether I was invited to the next stage. This is not a Recruiting team I would want to join.

Overall, it was very fast-moving and slightly confusing at times. I was contacted via LinkedIn on Friday to set up phone interviews the following Monday. After the phone interviews, I was asked if I could make it to the downtown office the very next day. Honestly I was shocked at the speed they were moving at, but made the on-site visit work. Prior to the onsite interviews, I received an email from one of the women I would be interviewing with informing me that I would have a total of three back-to-back interviews; however she mentioned that the last "interview" would be with her and she planned to simply "get to know each other" over lunch. Conversely, on the day of the interviews, the last interview turned out to be the most formal of the three. We did not go out to lunch as originally planned (there was no mention of it.) Additionally, I was surprised at the lack of communication between the three interviewers as they asked many of the same (generic interview) questions. This especially surprised me as they are part of the search and staffing group at Baker Tilly, and interviewing is their primary job. Overall, I was not happy with the interview process.