I'd actually forgotten I applied to Centene. By the time I heard from a recruiter, I was already in final-round interviews with other employers. However, I was excited about the Centene role, and the opportunity to really make a difference in healthcare, so I pursued the process. This was really a strange experience. After a wonderful, inspiring meeting with the recruiter, I was scheduled with the hiring manager and their team. The hiring manager seemed decent, as well as one of the two peers, but the third peer was unfriendly and mute throughout our call. I specifically asked them questions that deferred to their decades of experience with the company and role, and their responses were fragmented and unhelpful. After that interview, I was told I'd hear something very soon. Weeks later, I followed up with the recruiter, who said the team really liked me and considered me the finalist, and I would hear more soon. Well, I didn't hear anything. At all. Several more weeks later, I reached the offer stage with another company and let Centene know I'd have to exit the process. The recruiter made some confusing statement about how the position had not been funded (?) but the hiring manager wanted to meet with me again. I met with the hiring manager who asked some strange and destabilizing questions, almost as if they were trying to discourage me from taking the job. I assured them I was still interested, but needed a firm decision soon. Hearing nothing, I accepted the other job. THREE weeks after the final "interview," i received an abrupt, unfriendly, dismissive rejection email. After all that. That's all I got. No phone call. No explanation. No feedback. No nothing. Just, never mind. Wow. What a quality experience Centene provides.
