Recruiter phone call - initial screening of application Hiring manager - informal meeting, introduction, discussion of role and responsibilities Panel interview - behavioral based questions in STAR format based on company core skills and competencies

Applied online and about a week later, I was asked to do a HireVue screening. After that I had an interview with a recruiter, followed by several other interviews across the span of a several weeks with different people on the team, in HR and marketing. The last interview was with the hiring manager. I had turned down another interview so that I could attend this one and spent several hours preparing myself. The hiring manager asked me one question, and then told me everyone had loved connecting with me. She then she told me she wasn’t going to offer me the position but that there might be a contract role on a different team that I might be considered for...... in a few months. She said it would be like an extended interview, so after 9+ interviews and several weeks later, they wanted to offer me a maybe position to test out my qualifications some more? I wish they would have told me this over an email so that I wouldn’t have missed out on the other opportunity. At the very least, now I know to avoid applying for REI positions in the future.