Phone interviewer was an hour late calling me

[Anonymous]

You may be "filler". They have someone in mind to hire, but want it to look better by going to the trouble of interviewing three people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A company approached me via LinkedIn about an open position and I agreed to a phone interview. We scheduled it for 10:30 this morning. At 10:45 I hadn't heard from the guy so I emailed to ask if he wanted to reschedule. He replied "Sorry for the delay, will call in 15 min." Did not call me until 11:30 and then briefly said "Sorry, got caught up in meetings" and then launched right into the interview.

My guess is he felt entitled to do this because I'm currently home on maternity leave and therefore don't have any work meetings to work around. Maternity leave or no, I can't imagine being so disrespectful of someone else's time, nor can I imagine any hiring manager at my current company (which, FWIW, is very male-dominated) being so cavalier about an interview start time. He seemed like a nice enough guy once the interview got started and I'm still somewhat interested in the position, but this seems like a huge red flag to me.

Do you work for an organization where something like this would fly? If so, is it symptomatic of a culture of entitled jerks and/or lack of respect for employees' time?

Oh no, you had to wait an hour for a phone call. The horror! Call the NRLB right away, this is blatant discrimination!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A company approached me via LinkedIn about an open position and I agreed to a phone interview. We scheduled it for 10:30 this morning. At 10:45 I hadn't heard from the guy so I emailed to ask if he wanted to reschedule. He replied "Sorry for the delay, will call in 15 min." Did not call me until 11:30 and then briefly said "Sorry, got caught up in meetings" and then launched right into the interview.

My guess is he felt entitled to do this because I'm currently home on maternity leave and therefore don't have any work meetings to work around. Maternity leave or no, I can't imagine being so disrespectful of someone else's time, nor can I imagine any hiring manager at my current company (which, FWIW, is very male-dominated) being so cavalier about an interview start time. He seemed like a nice enough guy once the interview got started and I'm still somewhat interested in the position, but this seems like a huge red flag to me.

Do you work for an organization where something like this would fly? If so, is it symptomatic of a culture of entitled jerks and/or lack of respect for employees' time?

Oh no, you had to wait an hour for a phone call. The horror! Call the NRLB right away, this is blatant discrimination!

It's not discrimination but it is rude and not a company I'd want to work for if this is typical. Do people regularly start meetings an hour late at your company? I typically have a lot of meetings so if everyone just showed up whenever not sure how I or anyone else would get anything done. I do work for a well regarded Fortune 500 company and have always worked in similar type organizations. So maybe this is typical in some environments?????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A company approached me via LinkedIn about an open position and I agreed to a phone interview. We scheduled it for 10:30 this morning. At 10:45 I hadn't heard from the guy so I emailed to ask if he wanted to reschedule. He replied "Sorry for the delay, will call in 15 min." Did not call me until 11:30 and then briefly said "Sorry, got caught up in meetings" and then launched right into the interview.

My guess is he felt entitled to do this because I'm currently home on maternity leave and therefore don't have any work meetings to work around. Maternity leave or no, I can't imagine being so disrespectful of someone else's time, nor can I imagine any hiring manager at my current company (which, FWIW, is very male-dominated) being so cavalier about an interview start time. He seemed like a nice enough guy once the interview got started and I'm still somewhat interested in the position, but this seems like a huge red flag to me.

Do you work for an organization where something like this would fly? If so, is it symptomatic of a culture of entitled jerks and/or lack of respect for employees' time?

Oh no, you had to wait an hour for a phone call. The horror! Call the NRLB right away, this is blatant discrimination!

It's not discrimination but it is rude and not a company I'd want to work for if this is typical. Do people regularly start meetings an hour late at your company? I typically have a lot of meetings so if everyone just showed up whenever not sure how I or anyone else would get anything done. I do work for a well regarded Fortune 500 company and have always worked in similar type organizations. So maybe this is typical in some environments?????

The interviewer has all the power until an offer is made. Just be glad they called at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A company approached me via LinkedIn about an open position and I agreed to a phone interview. We scheduled it for 10:30 this morning. At 10:45 I hadn't heard from the guy so I emailed to ask if he wanted to reschedule. He replied "Sorry for the delay, will call in 15 min." Did not call me until 11:30 and then briefly said "Sorry, got caught up in meetings" and then launched right into the interview.

My guess is he felt entitled to do this because I'm currently home on maternity leave and therefore don't have any work meetings to work around. Maternity leave or no, I can't imagine being so disrespectful of someone else's time, nor can I imagine any hiring manager at my current company (which, FWIW, is very male-dominated) being so cavalier about an interview start time. He seemed like a nice enough guy once the interview got started and I'm still somewhat interested in the position, but this seems like a huge red flag to me.

Do you work for an organization where something like this would fly? If so, is it symptomatic of a culture of entitled jerks and/or lack of respect for employees' time?

Oh no, you had to wait an hour for a phone call. The horror! Call the NRLB right away, this is blatant discrimination!

It's not discrimination but it is rude and not a company I'd want to work for if this is typical. Do people regularly start meetings an hour late at your company? I typically have a lot of meetings so if everyone just showed up whenever not sure how I or anyone else would get anything done. I do work for a well regarded Fortune 500 company and have always worked in similar type organizations. So maybe this is typical in some environments?????

The interviewer has all the power until an offer is made. Just be glad they called at all.

I can see how you might think this if you're a low-performing loser who has to take whatever job he can get. This is not how it works for high performers with lots of options, however.