I had an interview today with a company for a developer role. I’m a beginner with no professional developer experience and I make that VERY clear on my resume. Even in my overview I directly state that the position I’m applying for would be my first role in this industry.
I spoke on the phone to their recruiter or HR person and basically explained my resume and experience. She pushed me to the second round of interviews which included a technical portion. I spent days preparing and felt I was ready.
This is for a start up and the interviewer was nice but I could tell he was not well seasoned as an interviewer. That’s fine, I get it, we all have our strengths. But we continued the interview for about an hour. I thought it went well.
He asked if I had any more questions and I asked what the next step of the interview process was and he said “we are a start up and are looking for someone with 10-15 years experience for this role but I encourage you to apply again in the future when we grow and can hire someone at a junior level.”
I was dumbstruck. I prepared so much for this and was so anxious about the interview. If they had my resume, spoke to me once, and knew I didn’t meet the minimum qualifications then why did they make me go through the whole dog and pony show just to tell me I am not a serious candidate? I’m not a Guinea pig I’m a human. I’m not here so that people can just brush up on their interview skills.
What’s a fucking waste of my time. I’m so disheartened.