Got an interview with a small company to basically do "everything" - sysadmin, reporting, databases, web dev, the whole nine. Pretty much head chef & bottle washer. I'd met the guy at a career fair and brushed off the "what salary do you want" question with "I need to know more about the position you're offering."
We sit down in his office, and within the first 10 minutes he tells me he'd really prefer to hire a kid either in college or right out of college, on a visa which he didn't have to foot the bill for, and pay roughly half what I wanted to be getting. The next 50 minutes where incredibly uncomfortable and I should have just noped right out at minute 11. Wasted a lot of my time.
Contract gig at a large international company which made its name with document handling. I was to go to the agency's local office and then be escorted to the client site downtown. Interview was scheduled for 8:30 I think and it's a 15-minute drive to the client site, unless one hits traffic (and with an 8:30 appointment, I figured I would).
Arrive at the office at 7:45, it's dark. 8:00, the receptionist appears. I tell who I'm there to meet, she says "oh, ok" and has me wait in the hall. Time goes by, people start coming into work at the agency, none of which are my contact there. Finally, about 8:20, someone says "really, he's not here yet? Lemme check around". 20 minutes later, I find out the guy's still at home, in bed, ill.
Agency scrambles around, finds someone to take me downtown for the interview. I get checked in about 9:15 and he tells everyone at the client site several times that my tardiness is in no way my fault, they had a problem at their office, etc. I do the first interview with two people in what was essentially a cubicle. They shuffle me off to another room to talk to one of the tech guys on the project, and I find myself in a room that was very reminiscent of this one, only a bit smaller. We talk for about 30 minutes, then his phone buzzes and he excuses himself to take the call. Comes back, has a family emergency, and says "I'll get someone else for you to talk to." So he pulls in another tech guy, who was completely unprepared to be doing an interview with anyone. We kind of stare at each other for about 20 minutes, trade a few awkward questions & answers, then decide we're done.
Had a headhunter contact me about a position and he wanted me to talk to the account manager. This was a Wednesday, I think. I gave him times on Friday, he (headhunter) said that was good. On Friday, asked to reschedule to Saturday. I offered a window on Saturday morning, and hear nothing until afternoon. Account manager had a scheduling problem, can we do it Sunday instead? I give him a window on Sunday, he misses that window by 3 hours, and finally calls as I'm driving home from the store where I was picking up provisions for a wake we were hosting at my house an hour after he called. I had to tell him it was really not a good time to talk (due to a funeral), which is why I'd offered a 4-hour window earlier in the day.
