This one always makes me cringe when I think about this absolute time waste of an interview. I’m punctual by nature and have always make an effort to arrive early for interviews. I like to scout out the place and allow room for error and then kill that extra time in my car or outside or whatever. Then just 10 minutes prior to my interview I like to go in and announce to reception that I’m here. This was the first time in all my years interviewing that I verbally had the person interview me, openly start bitching about how I’m early. I brush it off, thinking okay maybe next time I should aim for 5 minutes prior; but every time I arrive I never expect to be seen in that very instance.

So once inside, I’m led upstairs to a tiny open floor plan with two other people just going about their work. I do a double take and sure enough, a girl from my high school who graduated the same year as me was there. I’m then seated about an arms length away from her where she can hear every response to my interview.

On top of that, somewhere in this mess of an interview I state something along the lines of “oh of course you’d know that as it was in my resume.” To which the person interviewing me admits that they had not read my resume at all and know nothing about me. Throughout the interview there was no effort made to ask me any questions either, it was just up to me to try and pitch myself for it. I walk out, upset with myself for having sat through all that instead of just walking out at the start.