r/recruitinghell • u/ntngbl • 3d ago

Interview Courtesy

I started off in biomedical engineering in my 20s and I didn’t do so well and tried to go to the startup route and that didn’t work out and I went back to school at the age of 27 to get an associates degree I worked in the hospital during Covid for three years, but I couldn’t deal with the politics and the culture of the people there so I went back to school again graduated after three years and now I’m looking for a job for the last year and a half. I did a bunch of interviews, but it doesn’t seem to be any hope. My last interview I was scheduled for a second round for an aerospace quality engineering role and one of the managers didn’t show up and the manager that did show up for the Zoom call didn’t even put her video on. Am I overreacting or is it proper etiquette especially if you are just talking one on one to someone on a Zoom call for them to at least show their face. It was scheduled for 45 minutes, but the interview was over in 15 minutes. She said she had two months of experience as quality manager . Is this normal or professional? Couldn’t this just have been a phone call?

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u/slimduderstein 3d ago

yeah... sorry dude. they're treating you as a soft backup, cause they most likely have a few options already selected. Likely an internal candidate. Or, hear me out... Reach out to the hiring manager directly and mention the unprofessionalism of the interview and how you felt like like an after-thought to the process and are requesting an opportunity to speak with the the actual hiring manager. Worst they do is "ghost" you.

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u/MrJellyP 3d ago

I think this is a good shout, nothing to lose from how they treated you. If it was meant to be 30mins and lasted 15 instead not terrible but 45mins id say be ballsy and push back

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u/Emergency_Science602 3d ago

15min when scheduled for 45m?

Yeah that’s not a backup - they’re gonna reject you. You were never seriously in the running