I was interviewed by a Male and Female. From the moment I entered the room, the female had an air of arrogance about her and was completely rude and standoffish. Throughout the interview whenever the man was asking me questions, she would look at him sideways, almost as though she were mocking my responses. Her questions to me were repetitive and vague - the times I asked her to elaborate or what she meant, she would say just respond that it was open to my interpretation. How on earth does that make sense and give the opportunity to tailor a response to the role I am applying for?! Her attitude absolutely stunk and she is definitely not someone I would have enjoyed working underneath. There were also times were I was explaining things I had done in my previous role and team to which she constantly made sarcastic remarks to her colleague interviewing me such as “oh, it sounds like we’re in the wrong job”. There were also questions where I was specifically asked about my previous role and when I responded she asked “who is we? You say we a lot” - well, considering I was a part of one of the largest companies in the entire U.K. and working within a team, my answer will include a “we” since I didn’t run the entire section singlehandedly.
Totally impossible to feel comfortable being interviewed by her and quite frankly for a temporary position the need to be interviewed in such a hostile environment was totally unnecessary. Wish I saw all these Glassdoor reviews before agreeing to attend the interview.
I was also required to do a written test which didn’t factor into account the need to read four pages of information before completing the task and also the fact that they said the test had started, and then proceeded to talk to me about an impending fire alarm and give me an emergency phone number to contact if the laptop died, cutting down the time to do the task even further. But as I said from the outset the female interviewer had such a bad body language and energy towards me, constantly giving me dirty looks than she no doubt did this on purpose and didn’t care that I would run out of time.