I was contacted by a very nice recruiter on LinkedIn. We set up an interview after they reviewed my resume. First part of the interview with the recruiter very positive, lasted half an hour, asked me about my college and job background. Second part very bad to say the least. Two managers first briefly explained to me the context in which I would be placed, after which they let slip that it was an internship position. Since the job description mentioned a junior position, I asked for an explanation, and from there the interview escalated. They told me that in order to be classified as a junior I had to prove my knowledge, that one year of previously held internship was not enough, and from there they started to pepper me with questions in a very aggressive way, to put me on the spot, and rude. Toward the end they asked me if I was actually interested in that job, and I admitted that given my negative impression of that interview, I should think about it because I didn't want to be in a corporate climate for years in which I didn't feel comfortable. One of them replied that the interview was also to assess my stress tolerance level and that I clearly had not met their expectations, plus they were hiring for a job, not to go out for a drink. They had a couple more questions for me but abruptly ended the call.
A few things I would like to dwell on:
- you contact me, for a junior position, and after a 45-minute interview you tell me it is actually an internship. I would have said no right away.
- Annoyed that I am unwilling to accept an internship, change attitude and start pressuring me in a rude way, without any empathy or kindness: you are interviewing people, not objects
- if you really were testing my resistance to stress, what was the point of the final outburst about the fact that you were not interviewing to have aperitifs? We are in a professional setting, I would like to be treated professionally.
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