| I had almost exactly that happen to me as a college student. It was the worst interview experience I've ever had. I set up an in-person interview for a java developer position over e-mail. It was rescheduled a few times and I was given the address at last minute. It's the middle of summer, I'm in a suit (as is customary for interviewing on much of the east coast), with no car in a big city -- I had to leave pretty early to take a subway and walk to the place. When I got there, the manager I was supposed to interview wasn't there. What was there was three guys in a cramped two-room space mostly filled with cardboard boxes, some of them open revealing electronics of some sort and RC cars. Their product was apparently some kind of software for radio controllers sold to the government or something like that, I never got the details. One of those guys pointed me to their 'other office' where I'd likely find the manager. That meant I was now late, through no fault of my own, but running several blocks through the city getting sweaty and flustered. I was told the office is in the basement at this address... it's a huge old building and the basement looks like a warehouse with some rooms around the periphery. None of it looks like office space, just metal stairways and dim lighting. I eventually do find a door with the company's name on it and knock and inside is a man, in a single chair, behind a single metal desk, with a folder on it. Nothing else in the room -- this is no office. This man is in fact the manager I was meant to interview with, who offers no explanation for why he wasn't at their actual office that I was first sent to... and explains away the current decor as new space in the process of being set up. I don't even remember the details of the interview at this point. If I wasn't a fresh young student I would've bailed before even getting to that point, but I did at least make the decision that there was no chance at all I'd be working for these people before I left. I didn't hear back from them either. |