Initially, I had a telephone interview with the Assistant Director of Admissions. It seemed to go well and we arranged a face- to-face. When I arrived, I was left waiting in the lobby until 30 minutes past the scheduled start time.... 45 minutes total. When the director, came out to greet me, she never acknowledged that I had been waiting (even though she obviously knew since 45 minutes had passed since the receptionist had called her to tell her I was there) or apologized for the wait. She proceeded to ask me the same exact series of questions she had asked me on the phone. These were terrible, contrived, "Interview-101" type questions. She didn't ever refer to my resume, which I had brought her a copy of, and often seemed to be referring to the credentials of someone totally different when asking about my background. She never smiled, never offered any information about UTI as a whole and informed she she had a meeting in a few minutes before asking if I had any questions, which I elected to forgo because I felt so rushed. All in all, this interview took less than 20 minutes.
When she called me a few days later to arrange an interview with her supervisor, I was surprised and thought perhaps she had just been having a bad day....hey, we are all entitled to them from time to time, so I thought I would continue with the interview process. She set up a time with her supervisor. The interview was scheduled for one hour via telephone. I arranged my day around it.... I scheduled my lunch break at work for the time we agreed upon and lo and behold, she called me over an hour late, again with no apology, and the interview went on for well over an hour. She asked me the EXACT same questions I had already been asked. ("tell me about a time when you...." type situational questions....). She, too, seemed to have no sense of my background or credentials and often referred to a lack of experience in areas where I had plenty of direct, actual, industry experience!
The next interview was (again, surprisingly) scheduled via email-- it was to be a phone interview with the college president. Again, a one hour time slot was scheduled for a specific time and this time, she never even called! I followed up and I was told the president had likely been too busy to call me and the interview was rescheduled. I had referred back to the email that with the interview time and I was correct about the day and time, but when the president called, she told me I had probably made a mistake!!! Incidentally, this time, she called an hour and a half late, with no apology and asked me, for the fourth time, the same exact questions the previous two interviewers had asked.
I was told i would hear back within a week and no one even had the courtesy to follow up with a rejection letter! It was such a gigantic waste of energy and utterly disrespectful to my time. The interview process is a two way dialogue (when done properly) where two parties aim to see if there is a potential match. The blatant inadherence to interview times and the obvious lack of communication between the interviewers (asking the exact same questions over and over) was unprofessional and inefficient at best.
