I have not and honestly don’t know if I will. I got a clearance from another place right before covid happened, but circumstances with my wife made me decide to switch. Then again, we are talking about this agency.

Back to smack talking....
Dear CIA:

Yo’ momma so fat she sat on a rainbow and skittles popped out.

Yo’ adjudicators are so slow that when they tried to cross the road, they got a parking ticket.

Yo’ security office is so inefficient, they came last place in a snail bureaucracy marathon.

Of course, they can’t have us plebes thinking that they aren’t special

Was your offer different from what your CJO initially was? Now that theyre back to 100% should move along a little quicker.... hopefully. lol

It was - I had finished grad school and completed an additional year and change of related work experience they upped the offer to the equivalent of a promotion to the next grade. The agency where I was working had matched my private sector salary which was higher than CIA's final so I stayed where I was. Also, most CIA offices in the DMV aren't metro/mass transit accessible. So you will be likely in a car dealing with the traffic; unless you pay up an expensive home or high rent to live close by, that also factored in my decision.

People who have applied for DO positions shouldn't be talking about it on an open forum. You should ask any questions about the DO pre-employment process in a private message instead and even this might not be wise.

Don’t blame you in the least! I decided to just let my process keep going out of curiosity how long it will take. I’m in a good place now so they’d have to offer a substantial salary bump for me to take it at this point. End of the day; they only have themselves to blame for losing high quality candidates. 4+ years is beyond patient.

If you're curious, contact your county's congressman and ask them to look into why you haven't received any news for a year+. Most offices do inquiries and will receive an answer.

Yea sounds about right then, lol

Well I doubt you'll find out anything if the CIA and other intelligence agencies didn't even know how fast Kabul would fall to the Taliban. lol

https://twitter.com/Fran...1426928470970490882?s=19

New to the forum. Got a phone interview today and she was happy and scheduled a formal panel interview (2 people) in 3 weeks. That's my second rodeo. Although the first time, I'm not sure why I didn't even get an offer since During the interview they told me that I had all the qualifications the job was asking for. In the previous one, I had to go to the actual office. This one will be a virtual one. I feel like I can do much better face to face.

I remember the first time when I was done; there were 6 others going for the same vacancies (they told us that there was enough job for all of us). In the end, some were asked to stay behind and I was not. So I moved but was grateful for the experience. This was the first time that I interviewed for a job and didn't get it (ego hurt lol since I can interview well). So I tried again and was called again.

I felt like in the first one, I went balls out since I practiced a lot of the questions but I'm also very spontaneous so I was able to answer questions while preventing myself from ranting. But this one will be virtual. I was looking forward to going there again. Anyone else got virtual panel interviews?

Also the phone interviewer told me that I would get a package in the mail. How long does it take to get that package? The first time, I didn't get one and everything was done online (signing papers).

Applied Beginning of August 2021
Got testing email a week later (did the test the next day)
Phone interview with a recruiter 1 week after test
Virtual panel interview second week of September 2021

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