I am filing this entry under the “Interviews” section even though I never got to the formal interview stage.
Operon has the astoundingly innovative idea that all pre-employment testing and training should take place before you are even considered for a position. You can probably already see where this is going.
My first experience with this group came when I attended their “open-house” which was held in a single room of a random separate staffing agency. Two hours were spent taking a high-school level math and reading comprehension test. After they had determined that I wasn’t a drooling chimpanzee attempting to infiltrate their organization I was granted the privilege of attending more training at their prestigious Clinton, MA location which is located in an abandoned mill.
This next session took well over six hours, the majority of which consisted of mind-numbingly boring PowerPoint presentations followed by multiple-choice tests for comprehension. It probably could have gone faster but the staff was too busy eating lunch or doing infinitely more important tasks and couldn’t be bothered to change PowerPoint presentations or collect tests when they were finished. A number of my fellow detainees simply gave up and left at varying points. I was the last applicant to finally be freed from this excruciating ordeal, with the promise that I would be contacted soon about my application status. I never heard from them again.
If I had to sum up this experience in one sentence it would be “a colossal waste of time for everybody involved”.
