Bad interview

Question

I recently had a interview, and when I walked out of there I realised that 2 of the 3 interviewers had made up their minds before I walked into the interview. I had a 20 minute session with the development manager that went really well. Then I had a session with an architect and a BA. The BA only asked me questions about my CV regarding 10 - 15 years ago, and the architect only asked tricky questions regarding programming that doesn't test your knowledge, but to trick. Would you forget about it and be thankful that you weren't hired by the company, or do you do something about it?

Edit: Thank you for the answers. I know there is nothing i can do about it, it just really irritates me that they call you in for an interview, i took a whole day off from work to attend the interview, because they werent flexible enough to do the interview early morning or after work. I have learned something from that too, if a company is that inflexible in interview times, it says sometihng about their working cultur. And no, i defintely wouldnt want to work for a company like that.

Answer 1

Well, it doesn't sound like the most ideal place to work. Move on and find some place better. :)

Answer 2

Generally speaking, interviews come down to chemistry and that's what they're for. The team that doesn't get along is not going to be good (for anyone). There's no real fault in this. Not everyone gets along. A development team is really a cultural microcosm.

But if you really want the job, send an email to the development manager explaining that you and he/she had a good rapport and that you felt enthused about the job but it seemed like the other two had issues and ask for his thoughts on the matter.

Apart from that, there's not a lot you can do.

Answer 3

Forget about it and chalk it up as another learning experience. It is possible that you were only interviewed as 'filler' (nothing personal) and they already had filled the position, but were legally obliged to advertise the position.

Answer 4

Why would you want to work with people like that?

Answer 5

It's too late. Sometimes you can go to interview and they will only be interviewing you because they have to make it fair. If you find yourself in that situatoin you need to tell them right there that they don't seem interested enough.

Answer 6

Your summary "they'd made their mind up ahead of time" is probably accurate. They likely had the candidate they wanted already lined up, but had to go through bureaucratic hoops and interview more candidates before being allowed to make the job offer.

Forget it and move on.

Answer 7

There's not much you can do about it.

If it helps, you can try and convince yourself that the people interviewing you were less qualified/intelligent/skilled than you, but were just there first. It's an unfortunate fact of life that in the current economy, a lot of qualified people get rejected, whereas not that many years ago anyone that knew how to write Hello World could get recruited.

Different companies have different wishes, and it's also possible that they've already decided on someone but need to "fill a quota" of interviewees.