What are your thoughts on waiting 30 minutes for a final interview scheduled at 2:30pm? Is this delay disrespectful and indicative of how employers treat people in the job market? Should I reconsider my interest in this company due to this experience? #FinalInterview #JobMarket #ProfessionalEtiquette #CompanyCulture #Patience #JobSeekerConcerns
They’re playing you. They don’t want you, just leave
Someone forgot and now they are scrambling to fit you in.
u r not crazy and it is highly disrespectful. ur time is not important, as you are jobless anyway. waiting for them is still more critical than “easy apply” in linkedIn.
Didn’t you have a number to call at the beginning?
Once I left the USA, I never had to do any more than two interviews . So sorry for you
I will wait 10 minutes then I leave. If they cant respect your time now. They won’t ever respect it.
And ive heard of some places doing this on purpose to see who waa despert enough to stay.
You should have called or emailed the hiring manager, recruiter and whoever in the email chain to let them know you are there 5 min past the scheduled interview. SMH
Wow, that’s so rude. You definitely won’t be treated with respect & consideration if you end up working there. Forget about them!
As soon as they show up (if they ever did) I’d have looked them right in the eye and said “Thank you for your lack of consideration.” Then turned and walked out the door, especially since you HAVE a job already.
So the job I have now was a disastrous interview process. Head of HR forgot about my initial interview, had to reschedule. Then forgot to tell my interviewers that I was coming for the third round of interviews. Then sprung a last minute 4th interview on me with the company president. It’s hilarious in hindsight because it’s a great position with a good company and I make more money now than I ever thought I would at this point in my career. I was unimpressed but took the job anyways and all has worked out well (9 months in).
That’s wack
give us an update
How did it go? Or are you still waiting and your phone battery died?
I don’t know what happened… but if they didn’t immediately apologize profusely and assure you it was a severe miscommunication on their part, I wouldn’t want the job.
Sometimes, when you need that job, you have to suck it up.
Worst wait and repercussions I ever had whilst waiting for a job interview was when I arrive 15mins early and the supervisor wasn’t onsite. I was asked to wait. I waited over 4hrs. Every so often I got “he’s a city to the east, trying to get back”.
Eventually they said go home, you’ve got the job. Anyone who can wait this long and still be good tempered about it wins.
I was 12 miles from home. On a motorbike. The reason the supervisor couldn’t get over was because of a severe rolling snowstorm coming from that direction. I got 7 miles home before I ran into it. I then had to drive 5 miles home, in non-waterproof army boots, using my legs as skis. My feet stinging, leg muscles numb from the strain, my mother refused to let me walk through the door until I’d stripped to my underwear.
But I had a job.
Fill us in – dying to know what happened!
Is it disrespectful? Yeah. But I am going to say the same thing. _Hang tight._
I don’t know how experienced are you personally at the workforce, but here is something I can tell you based on my 15 years of experience.
In the working world, respect really does not matter. What matters is money, and the direction it moves. In other words, if respect is what you are after, do charity, and show up at a gala dinner writing cheques, volunteer somewhere donating your time and skill and all. You will have a lot of respect.
But when you are the one running after someone else’s money (which looking for work is), then you have to grow a super thick skin.
I have seen lawyers, consultants and business development managers, getting paid $500K a year or more, grovelling and buttering up their _clients_, waiting for a drop of their attention…all in order to close a deal or sign a new project. I bet that respect is often the last thing in their minds, so long as the client can write a big cheque, the consultant is happy to tolerate some disrespect. In fact, I would say it is part of their comparatmentalisation skill that makes them so successful.
Now, your life philosophy might be very different from theirs, and you may find this disrespectful attitude intolerable, and leave the office. The choice is always yours.
Unpopular opinion probably, but why did you wait around until 3pm when your interview was at 2.30pm?
If there was no one there, I would have gone to look for someone physically or, if that’s not possible, email/call the interviewing manager and/or the person who set up the appointment.
They could have equally been expecting you to arrive at 2.30pm, assumed you were a no-show and continued with their lives. In other words, from a different perspective you came 30 mins late for an interview, but they’re still willing to slot you in at the earliest opportunity. That’s pretty generous of the employer.
Yes the job market sucks but you’re not making it easier for yourself either.
Would have called or emailed at 2:30 instead of waiting until someone happened to find me
Pretty unprofessional. Receptionist MIA. Interviewers MIA. Its bad.