Yesterday I spent nearly four hours interviewing for a product manager position with an unnamed big fat global enterprise software company. The business unit in question is security management, which is a field I’m very interested in. And, while there are a lot of security software companies out there, it’s been my experience that if you don’t already work in that field, they aren’t interested in talking to you. So I was quite pleased when their recruiter reached out to me back in early July.
I had the screening call with the hiring manager in mid-July, and had completely forgot about it when she contacted me two weeks ago to say she wanted me to come into their corporate HQ for an in-person interview this week. (I’d originally been told that this would take place a couple of weeks after the first contact.)
Well, okay—I prepared a 15-minute presentation on a product I’ve managed, read up to the extent possible on access and identity management, dragged out my black interview suit, etc.
On-site I spoke with a group manager, the hiring manager, a principal product manager and a dev manager. I gave my presentation on my current product, carrying on with a paper print-out when PowerPoint went belly-up on me. I fielded all questions, asked ones as perspicacious as I could and got email addresses for thank-you notes.
And when I asked the hiring manager what the time frame was for actually, you know, hiring, she told me, “Around two to three months.”
(Keep in mind that she has had two openings in a group of three since May.)
’Scuse me? Two to three months from this point?
No—two to three months from the offer being made and accepted.
It seems that “everything has to go up for Larry’s signature.”
Meaning that in a corporation of roughly 100,000 employees, the CEO needs to be consulted for every hiring.
Jeez Louise.
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