Should I worry about a company if hiring manager acts unprofessionally?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I applied to a company and on the onsite interview, my Future Manager and the team showed how they are impressed with my CV and test assignment I made, which felt intense. After that Hiring Manager started the process with me. I had HR interview and then reference call.

Although I’m happy with the team, position, and salary, I have a strong concern about Hiring Manager. For example, she could call me at 9pm to assign interview call (instead of emailing). Promises to make a reference call on Monday and do that on Tuesday. They stretched the process into two weeks instead of one (as was arranged). She was 1.5 hours late on offer call. She texts to me calling me «my dear». And in the end, she sent job contract, where she made significant mistakes: apparently copy pasted someone's contract and didn’t replace all dates and names. She specified the wrong position (Junior instead of Senior) and when I asked her, is that position correct, she confirmed without any concern.

My Future Manager is aware of all these things and apologized a few times. But he seems passive and does nothing.

Does the behavior of Hiring Manager reflect the culture in the company? Is it ok, that my Future Manager doesn’t have any leverages on the process?

Update: I asked my Future Manager to make corrections in the contract. He promised that will be done in 2 days. Instead (without any notification of being late), he connected me to Hiring Manager 1.5 week later, who concerns about my cultural fit because of my complaints regarding mistakes in the contract(lol?). I dropped the contract.

manpreet 2 years ago

This would be a red flag for me. Nobody's perfect, but the behavior of the hiring manager shows a severe lack of healthy professional boundaries. A 9 PM phone call? Addressing you as "my dear"? Mistakes in your formal offer? Nooo!

What's worse is that your manager is unfazed by the behavior, which would tell me that such behavior at that business is considered acceptable by the people that are already there. Kristina, since you seem to have that nagging little voice inside your head that's telling you something's wrong, listen to it!!!

Or you might learn the hard way - like discovering that not getting you a paycheck on time is alsosomething considered to be acceptable.

Maya Angelou : "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."