I was handing out resumes to video production

it was based in Seneca, so I went for it. There were job postings for a project manager. One was more mechanical based, the other more electrical. Well, I applied online and wanted the mechanical job, but for some reason HR changed it to the other posting. I called to find out why, and they said it didn't matter it, the jobs were the same, just different hiring managers. Well, they lied.

It all started poorly when I left work early to have the phone interview at home. Well, about 15 minutes before the interview was to take place, I get a call on my cell from someone at work. I answered. Big mistake. I couldn't get the guy off the phone and the manager calls a minute or two early while I'm still trying to hang up. I missed the first call. The manager calls me back about 5 minutes after the scheduled time. I answer and he asked, "Is now a good time?" I knew then that the interview was over.

Then for about 30-45 minutes he proceeds to ask me questions about RF communications and other crap I know nothing about...but the jobs were NOT the same. Combine all these miscues with the fact that I didn't really want the job, and you get the idea. It was awful.

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Feb 18, 2014, 9:51 AM

1) Back in the late 90's I was interviewing for a position within Microsoft's pilot programming group. Basically it was a division of MS that was working on some experimental/creative stuff, and was actually quite interesting on paper. I had a few phone interviews before an in face interview which is where I knew I bombed and we decided, mid-interview, it wasn't a good fit for either of us. Basically, the initial "interview" portion went well, but then they sat me in front of a computer and had a series of programming tasks to be completed. I did them, struggling through some as they were annoyingly complex for such a short time to fulfill them. During this part I opened a browser to go online for some programming semantic stuff. My thought process was simple, were I in the real world and needed to know the semantics of a procedure call I would look it up in a book or online rather than spending 10 minutes fiddling/compiling. During the test 2 guys came in and said "you're cheating using the internet, we don't think this would be a good fit." I fought back a laugh as I simply explained it was odd to provide a resource (a computer attached to the internet) and not expect it to be used to accomplish a task. We ended the interview and parted ways. I got a better job elsewhere and was MUCH happier.

2) A few years later I was moving back south and interviewing with some companies in Charlotte. I met with the guy I was interviewing at a small software development consulting company who was, I think, director of IT or something like that. Not a low guy in the company. Half way through the interview we took a break when he got a call he said he had to take. I went out to a break room and waited for 30 minutes or so when another employee came and told me the interview would have to be cut short. Turns out the original dude had been fired on the phone call. If the employee who walked me out is to be believed he had been caught embezzling cash that morning. I got a call a few weeks later from his successor, but by that time had moved on to pursue other things. I never could find legal reports of the first guy getting charged.