Ecommerce Partners - Faulty Hiring Practices or Disgruntled Job Searcher?

The following is a response I got from the CEO of ECommerce Partners which itself is a response to a posting of mine (which is also below).

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Although I am not entirely sure that there was no salary mentioned, it seems highly unlikely. As a rule we run ads with compensation according to qualifications. This probably also was the case here, but I can not say for sure. In any case, the applicant did not seem to have the skills we expected for this specific job. In order to be sure we sometimes do ask for a mini-task to be completed as a skill assessment, and no applicant ever took issue with that. Overall our interviewing and assessment process is fairly short, uncomplicated and applicant friendly.

If you can even dream that we would use the results of such assessments for any actual client project, you do not know the first thing about process and QA at ECommercePartners. Based on our assessment and in order to accommodate the applicant we did offer him another job with a different salary. No interviewer in his right mind would tell an applicant that we lied about the salary this is pure fabrication and defies any logic. Your whole story has written disgruntled job searcher all over it.

I do hope you will give this side of the story the same prominent coverage and in the future be a little more careful with the facts.

Sincerely,

Jakob Schwerdt
CEO, ECommerce Partners

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I heard a story about this company that boggled my mind. It all begins with a posting on the job board at Craigstlist. The description of this posting included a salary of $100K. For those familiar with New York City salaries, you'll know that while good, such a salary is fairly common.

Interviewing with Ecommerce Partners was fairly standard according to my source. The one out of the ordinary thing they did ask was that a mini-project be completed as a skill assessment.

All signs were positive when a second interview was arranged. The topic of the discussion was to be salary. However, upon arriving for the interview the interviewer proceeded to offer just $50K. When questioned about the $100K mentioned in the posting, the interviewer admitted that the posting was a lie and that they were simply interested in attracting people to the interview. In addition, it is clear now that the mini-project was simply a way to get free work.

And so this page about Ecommerce Partners should serve as a warning to anyone interviewing with them. Hopefully this page will appear at the top of the search engine results. If you have your own story to share, feel free to send it my way.

Good luck with your job search!