Around the end of February, I was reached out to by a recruiter from Cintas about an HR Manager position in Salt Lake City. She wanted me to do a generic phone screening with her, which I did in early March. That lasted 15 minutes, and she invited me to formally apply to the position and move forward in the interview process.

I went through 4 interviews total with them, each one lasted at least 1 hour. 2 were virtual, and 2 were actually on-site. It seemed like the people I was interviewing with liked me as a candidate, and I was always moved forward in the process quickly, as the recruiter told me I was getting good remarks from those I interviewed with.

I had that 4th interview with them around mid-March. And then I never heard ANYTHING from them after that. No call, no text, no email. Nothing. Not even the classic “unfortunately” email.

About a week later, I noticed that the Sr. HR Manager put out a posting on LinkedIn for that same position. It seemed like they were RESTARTING the process here! And I’m positive other candidates got the same treatment as I did!

I let it go mostly, until today, April 9. I got another message on Indeed from ANOTHER RECRUITER from Cintas inviting me to set up a phone screening and apply for the SAME job that I had already done such a rigorous interview process for! I replied to her with my disgust about this whole process.

It makes me think… Is this position even real? Does Cintas even plan on hiring a candidate for that position? You’d think they’d have already had an ideal candidate after almost 2 months of recruiting and interviewing for that position. Just needed to vent somewhere. I imagine I’m not the only one who has had this happen to them recently given the current job market.