I have a pretty solid job but been frustrated lately so decided to apply to a few places. Got a 2nd interview at this place and they had me come in at 1pm today on a Friday. Sounds good to me.
Mind you this is for a senior level engineering position.
I get there at 12:45pm, a nice receptionist greets me and hands me a mechanical skills assessment (unexpected and pretty ridiculous but I'll tolerate it) and a nonsense spatial awareness assessment of a series of like 26 questions where polygons would be split into 3 pieces with all kinds of fucked and jagged corners and you had to match them to one of 4 different normal looking polygons.
I haven't seen these type of problems since college but I think I did fine but at some level was like fuck this I don't really care and just circled some answers.
The first 8 spatial questions were not too bad but by like 13 I just said fuck it and started circling answers because they were getting ridiculous lol. There were 26 of these. 26?? I'm not sitting here all fucking day piecing some wild ass shapes together.
I finish that garbage at 1:45pm and give it to the receptionist and she logs me into a computer to do some other 20 mins of 126 questions of nonsense like picking synonyms of words (who does this) and recognizing basic number patterns (1 3 5 7 9 11 type of thing, like fucking really guys?)
After that, I finally get the tour from the guy who gave me the phone interview. The place is actually pretty sweet and I'm pretty sure me and this guy are on the same page. I'm feeling good about this again – same way it felt talking to him on the phone.
At this point its like 3pm and I ask how long I should expect this to last – he said about 4:30. So he walks me to a conference room and says someone else will be coming to interview me shortly. I waited till 3:30 and no one showed up, told the receptionist who could tell I was getting visibly annoyed at the waiting. She tried to call someone and I told her I was just leaving and I can't wait all day and that I'd be in touch with the recruiter.
Went from really wanting that job to not really caring anymore and thinking maybe I just need a week off and I'll be good lol. Only reason I'm as mad as I am because I missed a 3:30 tee time for golf because I didn't think an interview would last 4 fucking hours. All good though I'm taking 5 days off next week and going on a golf trip.
Fuck work.