Tesar-Reynes

I was talking to a friend of mine who was interviewing for a senior vice president position in corporate communications.

He was steaming mad. The company had flown him into their town the night before the interview and put him up in a nice hotel. The next morning he took a cab to their location. When he tried to check in, security did not have him on their list so he had to wait in the lobby 20 minutes.

Eventually he was escorted by a junior HR person to the first appointment. He then had to wait 15 minutes for his person to finish a meeting. The interview went fine. He was then told to wait in a chair in the hall for someone to pick him up for the next interview. And so it went.

At lunch, he ate in a noisy cafeteria with HR who tried to explain their benefits package The day ended with his final interview running too long and he missed his flight.

He couldn’t believe the experience. He will definitely not follow up with them: “If they are that way when they are romancing me, what are they going to be like when we get married?”

I am constantly shocked by how little thought is put into the logistics of hiring people at all levels. Do you have horror stories like this one?