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He had a pretty reasonable response to the backlash, at least.

Crisis averted to those who did not answer.

Someone of his age and in his position should already know and demonstrate proper decorum, even with "modern technology" like .... voicemail? And acceptable procedure, like scheduling important calls. And having a bit of grace. Or a smidgen of empathy. Uh, how is he qualified to be President and CEO when he lacks anything necessary to be a leader?

Even in the best of interpretations, this is someone enormously out of touch. Even with the apology posted below, there's no way I could or would have confidence in this person's leadership. It's one thing to make a mistake, it's another to be so woefully out of touch with reality for so long that you literally didn't know that leaving voicemail is a normal thing people do and giving folks a heads up so they expect your call and can make themselves available for it is just good manners at a minimum.

Does this guy not understand that 99% of calls from unknown numbers are spam? If he picks the person who always answers, he's gonna be disappointed when they're spending more time answering spam calls than doing intern work.

Ok, here's a thing about "me" I don't enjoy your completely disrespectful attitude and your entitled view of MY time to be garbage. I'm glad I could help you explore getting to know me more. Enjoy the answering machine.

I don't think this is that bad.

A bit unorthodox, and old school, but unorthodox interviews aren't bad and neither are phone interviews.

The problem is that he didn't provide a number for people to add to their safe-callers list, so that they know it isn't spam when he calls.

Also, depending on the position, he needs to make sure that the call is not going to be in the middle of important meetings. He presumably doesn't want to hire people who take calls in the middle of client negotiations

The most obvious issue with this is that most people aren't (or at least shouldn't be) always available for calls on their personal phones at random times during normal office hours. If you do it this way, you're pretty much pre-selecting for people who don't currently have a job and aren't in school/college.

What is NDs?

The man has a point about interviewing for an intern based on personality, instead of experience or company bootlicking.

But the rest comes straight out of the looney bin.

Kinda cool that he would call directly. That’s pretty human compared to the usual robot and virtual assistant driven cattle calls. But it’s a bit too old school. he really should just leave a message. Or respond to the email to setup a call.

Because gone are the days that people build their lives around random phone calls. Most of the time, it’s considered rude to even take a call without escaping to some isolated location, especially if others could hear your phone ringing first. And of course if the number is unknown it’s most likely spam.

He either needs a time machine or needs to learn how phone calls work in the 21st century.

I won't play phone tag with you

Plays phone tag with you

I love posts like this because they’re almost always from out-of-touch dickheads that I would never want to work for anyway. I don’t want to get laid off when you run your company into the ground, asshole.

I don’t know many millennials or younger who answer their cell phone. Most just let it roll to voice mail. If you want to talk to these folks why not just text them.

Can you imagine working for this guy?

Dude will have a multiple volume encyclopedia of things in his brain which he assumes you will know, even when he hasn't communicated them to you.

Why isn't that guy retired ?

How much more power and wealth does he think he is gonna need before he grabs some fucking pine on the bench and enjoys a lemonade ?

Old people have decided to ruin the world then die laughing leaving the rest of us the mess. What a weak generation of people they have been. Vainglory, greedy, and weak.

Ok Grandpa, let's get you into retirement.

I do think that any time you hire an intern, the only thing you can judge them on is vibes.

I used to be in charge of an intern program, and the thing is that you can't really select based on experience or anything, because they don't really have that. Instead, you end up asking a bunch of personality questions and trying to get a feel for if they'd be a good fit on your team.

Now, do I think "answers the phone" is a good test of that? Probably not. But then again, we used to ask people if they'd rather be a blade of grass or a doorknob, just to see what they'd say.

I guess my point is, if this was for a "real job," I'd be a little more judgy, but for an internship, I've selected people based on wilder things than "did they answer the phone."

Why not leave a voicemail? "Please leave your message, name and number and I'll call you back" has been the standard for as long as I know.