I personally would have left the room after the comment on the Linux laptop.
Interview Humiliation
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#12What do you think of the practice of ending an interview earlier than scheduled when you're quite sure that the candidate is not a good fit for the position? The rationale I've heard is that it saves both you and the candidate time. But in practice, during the times when I've seen it done, the candidate ends up feeling really hurt.
Terrible practice. Unless the candidate themselves is rude or doing something totally off base. That has to be really rare. Your pre-screen process should prevent most of the completely unqualified candidates from getting in the door. From there, once invited to your company, it's important to treat people with respect. Besides that being just generally good life advice for Any Situation, it makes good business sense too. People talk, and if I hear a company has a bunch of asshole interviewers that cut people off, I'm not gonna apply there. I'm gonna assume the entire company is assholes.
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#13shame on them. doesn't sound like a place any self respecting developer would want to spend time at. what company was it?
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#14Classless and unprofessional in all respects. We can all learn by their example how not to treat candidates.
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#15This is such comic book villainy I just don't believe it happened as described. I wonder how the other side would describe it.
Yeah, 25 minutes late set the tone for that interview. I don't really care what the reason is, I'm going to be pissed if someone is 25 minutes late for anything.
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#16He should have walked out the interview the very moment they made the "Can't you afford a real machine?" comment. Even if you pass the interview, do you really want to work for/with these assholes?
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#17This is such comic book villainy I just don't believe it happened as described. I wonder how the other side would describe it.
Yeah, 25 minutes late set the tone for that interview. I don't really care what the reason is, I'm going to be pissed if someone is 25 minutes late for anything.
> I found out later their recruiter had given me and many other candidates the wrong time.
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#18I never found out if I had done something to make everyone so angry. I now suspect that they were massively turned off by a host of things. It's not you, it's them. You are lucky you got out of there, you would have been miserable.
Not enough people realize that interviews are a two-way interaction. Steve is lucky that he got the valuable answers without ever asking the questions. "Company A" failed that interview dismally and should be embarrassed. I would have shown myself out of the door given pretty much any of their remarks.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, 25 minutes late set the tone for that interview. I don't really care what the reason is, I'm going to be pissed if someone is 25 minutes late for anything.
> I found out later their recruiter had given me and many other candidates the wrong time.
Right, but as someone conducting an interview, checking your watch every minute waiting for someone to arrive, you don't know what their reasons are. And as the time passes, you start wondering what the hell is up with this person, wondering about all the other things you could be doing, etc. etc. and it leaves you in a bad mood for when they do arrive. No amount of explanation will change the bad mood, I'm not going to suddenly get bright eyed and cheery because it turned out to be a scheduling error.
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#20shame on them. doesn't sound like a place any self respecting developer would want to spend time at. what company was it?
By the sound of it, a D&D club at junior high.