I was proactively contacted by Howden’s recruitment team, with my profile matching their job specification. The start of the process was incredibly intense and rushed, with the first interview on a Friday morning and the second happening on the Monday at 9am. But from then on, it was anything but proactive. It took 3 weeks to hear any feedback from the 2nd round interview, with a third round scheduled for a couple of weeks later. The interviewers for the third round were poor, with key individuals not turning up and a lack of organisation very visible. Three weeks later, and after being chased, I was then asked to come in for a fourth round interview, with the people that didn’t attend the third round. Despite having to wait for 3 weeks for any feedback, once Howden wanted me in, they chased me multiple times until I agreed to an interview slot. The fourth round interview was better, although the meeting room had been commandeered, wasting useful time. At the end of the fourth round, I was told that they would need two weeks before getting back to me. After 2 weeks of silence, I chased up. I had been promised feedback that day, which didn’t come. Eventually I received a very generic ‘no’, via text, with no real feedback, just generic things. This process took 3 months, with poor candidate management throughout. I had already started to question whether Howden really was a company that I would want to work at, given how poor my experience was.