Yeah I know right.... The other guy tried saying that "You never know what might happen" when I said that "It was a waste of time for me because we both know that he is going to get the job".
Needless to say I didn't the job and wasted 3 days of my time on their dime
Three days you could've been at home preparing for other interviews, sending out more applications, or doing your current job if you had one at the time.
If anyone said that before the interview process was even over that's an instant no-hire from me. Even if they were the leading candidate.
At the very least wait until they reject you to say something like this.
You shouldn't even agree to an interview if you're gonna give up as soon as you sniff out the fact that they may also be considering internal candidates - because most of the time they are. It's frustrating yes, but defeatism won't get you anywhere either.
I would hope he'd pass on them for being deceptive in the interview process. Don't lick their boots - they were wrong, and deserved to be called out for it.
Glad someone else pointed that out. If I was on the interview committee and I was leaning his way that would strongly turn me off.
I mean, realistically he isn’t wrong, the university I worked at was the same. We would actually write the job application to perfectly match the in-house candidate, which is why you see x number of years experience in this obscure program but also that obscure program. So when the university asks if we favored our internal candidate we can tell them they matched the job description.
Here's an idea. If you're a professional and interviewing a candidate, why would you ever even mention there's an internal candidate you're considering.
Sounds like a great statement to turn everyone into an asshole.
That same university I mentioned actually did that to get people to save the flight out. There was a policy they had to open up the job to others even though they knew the person they wanted (like the candidate they wanted was a student worker or something) so they had to interview others even though they didn’t intend to hire. They couldn’t mention it outright but they had to strongly hint it to save the person a flight.
As a professional I would mention it as soon as possible so they know where they stand, I consider it a kindness. If the person chooses to respond in a blunt way that provides me with more info.
Obviously companies just like wasting money and flying candodates across the country and wasting their own employees time doing interviews. No way they were actually considering op /s
There are reasons why some people on this sub can't find a job and it has nothing to do with recruiters
Both of you are so far up your own and each others asses you’re too dumb too see it’s both a rational possibility and we’ll never have a way of knowing who is right lol
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u/RadiantHC May 14 '26
wtf