This week I had a few interviews lined up with some delivery services. Neither of their job listings were perfectly accurate, neither of them explicitly said Amazon though I figured they were because Amazon has only a million small DSPs. Don't judge me too harshly for looking for a survivable wage I know Amazon isn't great.
Here is the interesting bit:
my first one was a couple of days ago, and the experience was well wild to me, I got there and a nice lady led me back and since the person conducting my interview wasn't immediately found she offered to throw me at another DSP to which I declined because I wasn't there for random on the spot interviews for who knows what. The person doing my interview showed up quickly after that, thanked me for coming and sat down with me for about 5 minutes while she looked over my stuff, and then offered a tour which was cut short thanks to my own experience in Amazon warehousing years back. She was quite happy that I didn't need much hand holding appreciated my promptness and didn't ask me much in the way of stupid questions about work history gaps or why my young adulthood was spent bouncing from place to place. (Which should be self explanatory because it wasn't same field hopping it was hopping to different fields looking for what fit me.)
Start to finish the entire interview was over in 15 minutes and started a little sooner than scheduled so I left 7 minutes after the meeting was to start with a job offer that I told them I would consider but had more interviews. This lady was young, she looked like she might have been early 20s.
Where their job posting was wrong was in wage, and they offered more than the posting by a pretty good margin.
I left this interview feeling refreshed, like wow the world is changing I liked how smooth it went.
Follow this with my stark contrast interview today for another DSP. Was greeted by an older man, if I needed to guess an age I would fairly confidently say 48-53. He conducted a far more usual interview, questioned all of my work history gaps, ignored my expectations, disregarded my sound reasoning for certain things like why I couldn't accept mandatory on call past my 40 hour work week as I have other more important obligations, had a firm starting pay of 2 dollars less than the other, asked me 3 different times about my longevity because of my job hopping in my youth, said he was concerned about that, asked me all the generic questions of times I went above and beyond, and how I handled hard situations a couple different ways, like he was going to trip me up. Wouldn't negotiate price, but offered bonuses for delivered packages provided the whole crew did a good job. I left this interview sweaty feeling ignored and more than a little irritated, since they were wrong on a few spots wit their job posting including but not limited to having an evening shift (which is what I applied for in the first place, and made that clear on my cover letter.) I assumed it would have started at like 1-2 pm instead they only had a mid morning start time in the way of nearly everything I have going on. I was offered the job despite these things. Told him I would think on it.
Tldr; had 2 interviews. The first one with a lady younger than me (maybe early 20s) who had a wonderfully streamlined interview and tour followed by a job offer to consider. The second interview with an older gentleman (maybe late 40s early 50s) was far less flexible and wasn't really listening through his 30 minutes still ended in a job offer.
Any one else see these stark differences in interviewing for places? It kind of just makes me look forward to when the older generation stops working. If only they weren't the problem generation, maybe they could a fixed retirement and I dunno the world.