I don't usually do this, but I'm so upset at this company which interviewed me some time back. The last interview I had with them was early this month, and I still feel like i got cheated or something. Let me relate the story and you tell me if I have the right to feel that way.
It's a relatively new company, start up venture it seems dealing with new media related to IP TV. I would gladly announce the name on my blog so that you won't be treated the way I did, but I'm not sure if this is called defamation/slander. Anyways, it was one of the many companies that advertised through our uni's career services.
Because it was web-related but quite an entry-level job, I decided to give it a try. Not long after that, I got an email from the president of the company asking me to call him. You got that right, I had to call the company to be interviewed. Fine, so I called him and we chatted for about half an hour. Mind you, this is considered long distance since the office is based in Tokyo and I'm staying in rural Niigata.
It went quite well except for the part where he mentioned that even though the job was quite entry-level, and the company was small, he even had to do invoices himself. At that time, I was willing to give any job a try, since I was aiming to learn all I can and gain some foreign exposure.
After that, as a courteous interviewee, I did the courteous thing by emailing him to thank him for interviewing me. Yes, even if I had to call him. So I asked about the next step. He said, to go down to Tokyo for a proper F2F interview. Fine, so during the past trip down for the career fairs, I made my way to his office for the 2nd interview.
It was in a residential apartment area which didn't look one bit like a proper office, but during the interview he told me that they were getting ready to move into a proper place by the end of the year or something like that. He even showed me some rental quotes. I managed to have some more chat with him, and his staff, to whom I was supposed to report to. It went kinda well, and they wanted me to join them immediately as it was an urgent vacancy.
After returning to campus, I thanked them again. Yes, I had to call them, and I had to go down all the way to some place called Tennoz Isle for the interview and talk to his staff while he did his work on his Mac, and I thanked them again for talking to me. He emailed me some time after that to tell me to Skype one of this partners for the 3rd round.
So Skyped I did. I admit that I couldn't make it the initial arranged date, but I apopogised and Skyped his partner the next day. He said he was busy that time, asked me to wait for 30minutes, and I said to message me back when he's ready to talk. I waited and waited and after 45 minutes of no response, I decided I had to eat my dinner.
I had already skipped my dinner to concentrate on that interview, but my stomach was growling and Maslow's law says that hunger is one of the basic need. So I obeyed my hunger and ate, and suddenly after 1 hour, he messaged. By then I was already more than upset. He was late for his Skype interview and disturbing my delayed dinner, so I told him I would message him when I was done with my dinner.
My friends who knew about my impending Skype interview all laughed at me when I told them about what had happened. I guessed they didn't want me in the end because I had to obey my hunger, which was a basic need.
Now, would it be an overreaction on my part to be upset that I had to first call them for my interview, then made my way to their office for the 2nd, and Skype for the 3rd? Have you ever heard of a company who asks their potential candidates to call them for interviews? The best interview I've ever had, and will continue to tell people about is from Shell. They treated us to lunch with their interviewers! Not snacks like curry puff and teh tarik, but proper meals with proper cutleries.
I will never forget that even though I didn't get in Shell, and neither will I forget this call-us-for-your-interview company too.
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