After applying and scheduling an interview on the recruiters calendar. He reached out to let me know the target salary was slightly lower than what I had listed on the application. I enjoyed that transparency. When we had our phone call, he couldn’t remember if he’d had, a conversation about salary with me already. I had to remind him that yes he had reached out by email and I was still willing to have the conversation. He then let me know that the position I had applied for was not actually open and it might not be at the store where I had applied. He let me know several stores within a geographic area that it may be at and after some shuffling of positions in the geographic area partway through my training I would be told which location I would work at. I asked several questions about why this was their practice, but he seemed most interested in determining the farthest locations commutablity for me. I take this as that is the location they want me at. I explained why I felt it was necessary to know the location and the team and the areas of focus that a manager should be entering, but apparently this is not the way target does it. He was surprised when I withdrew my candidacy and he ended the call quite quickly. Also, he got a text message from UPS that was clearly spam partway through our call and seemed to feel it necessary to read that out loud to me.

Got the interview from a career fair. Met with one person who handled hiring and had a great conversation and had one other phone interview. Asked me relevant questions and I was excited about the role