Hello all, I hope you’re doing well. I had an interview yesterday and I am curious to see what you all have to say about it.
I initially applied for an Information Technology position at a local health clinic locally, within a couple days I had an email stating that I would like to be met with for an interview. I kindly responded to the email with something along the lines of “Absolutely, what available times do you have?” The IT manager says that he has an appointment for Friday (May 19, 2023) and for Thursday (May 25, 2023) I am a father of 3 with an infant that is barely a month old. I had other obligations to attend on the 19th, so I told the manager that I am available anytime on the 25th. The next day, (May 19, 2023), I got an email from the same manager asking if I could meet him at 10 A.M. that same day. Not a super big deal, I just thought it was kind of weird that he would ask me to come in that day when I had already specified that I had other things to attend. He reassures me that Thursday the 25th would be fine still. I show up to the clinic 15 minutes early (just to ensure that I could find where I needed to go) I talk to the front desk receptionist like the IT manager instructed me to and to ask for (let’s call him Bob). I ask for Bob and they call him and according to the receptionist he totally forgot that he even scheduled me for an interview. He tells the receptionist that he will be there as soon as he possibly can (no ETA) I was recently laid off from my previous IT job and I have 3 children of my own so I really need the money. So I waited in the lobby in hopes that he would be there in a couple minutes to get this interview underway. 30-35 minutes later he shows up ready for the interview. I follow him to the conference room that they have in their basement, as soon as we sit down in the chairs, he folds his legs and hops on his phone instantly and stays on it for a solid 15 minutes. (The interview was only 20 minutes long) he asks me several questions about my relevant experience in the field (pretty standard questions) but he did not seem to be listening to what I was saying and would interrupt my sentences with another question. About 10 minutes into the interview, we hear a knock on the conference door, another IT coworker of his says that another person is here to interview. (Apparently he had forgotten about this person too) this gentleman came prepared in a nice suit and ready for his interview. Bob tells the coworker that he needs to come back on Monday for the interview. I feel bad for this poor guy, I know I would have been pissed if I were him. He politely says that he will be back Monday. After he finally gets off of his phone, he looks at me and says, “I didn’t really have time to look at your resume, what are your salary expectations”. I’m not a recruiter or a manager by all means, but isn’t the point of a resume to see your candidates on paper before an interview? Anyways, I explain to him that my salary expectations are around 50k / year. (That was what I was making at my previous job) and that I was willing to go a bit lower if the position starts around that range. He tells me that the position starts off at $15 per hour, and that I could try to talk to HR about possibly getting that starting wage higher. But wouldn’t really count on it.
I don’t see myself working here anytime soon just because of the wages alone. But I also feel like Bob was completely unprofessional about the entire interview process as a whole. What do you guys think? Am I being a Karen? I don’t want anyone else to have to go through this shitty experience like I have. I’m 26 years old and haven’t had a ton of interviews, but this experience was completely different than any other I have had.