Reviews Of Freelancers

Vijayalaxmi Hegde
vijayalaxmi.hegde@gmail.com
Kolkata, India

Viju contacted us on Lime Exchange re: our book compiler’s position.

All seemed fine with her so we were willing to wait the 11 days before she could interview.

Then the day before we were supposed to conduct the interview she said she didn’t know our time zone even though it was mentioned twice, once on our application, & once in our pre-screening booklet.

She also gave me her phone number even though we stated that most of the time we interview via instant message & only for some positions the phone. Common sense states that if someone is overseas, they probably won’t be called by the company.

Since she had already stated she had a good memory, I reiterated that we can only hire people with good memories & our time zone was stated twice.

She didn’t respond to my e-mail, so I wrote her back again. Her reason for not responding was…

“Hi Michelle,

Your last email to me said your time zone was EST. Did you send me anything else?

Viju”

Ok, now I was starting to get the impression that Viju wasn’t as sharp as I thought she was, so I wrote her back again stating that the e-mail didn’t just state our time zone, it talked about memory & that’s another thing we need from everyone, very good communication skills, & people who don’t ignore e-mails. I said we can’t work with someone who ignores something they don’t like. I said if you didn’t ignore the e-mail then please explain.

She didn’t respond back & I waited over 4 hours for her to come on Yahoo for her interview.

I wrote her again stating that we only hire people who are responsible & reliable. She ignored me again.

The following day she came on Yahoo & I IMed her. She ignored me again.

So because of this behavior & keeping me waiting for the interview after we waited 11 days for her, I feel other companies need to know how Viju handles herself.

Michelle