Except for Bob! He doesn't get any! Curse you Bob!!!!!!
So my 30th interview was in November 25th, Thanksgiving week! It was for a Pharmaceutical company (With less than positive reviews on Glassdoor.com, but you didn't hear it from me! *Wink* *Wink**Wink* *Wink**Wink* *Wink**Wink* *Wink**Wink* *Wink**Wink* *Wink**Wink* )
This was actually an interview that I got via Randstad, so I guess they aren't as useless as I had thought! (They'restillprettyuselessbutyoudidn'thearitfrommeagain*Wink* *Wink**Wink*)
Unfortunately, I was 12 minutes late for this interview because I didn't think there would be traffic at 11am. I wasn't sure if they had noticed or not..... ( I left 30 minutes before, and the map said it would take that long.)
Funny enough, the Randstad representative called me while I was on the interview, to ask if I was going to the interview.
When I got to the front desk, I had found out that I was in the wrong building. They were next door (Same company, but for some reason they had two sectors.), I get there and everything seemed fine, I didn't think they noticed I was late because of traffic. I had to wait in the waiting room for like 10 minutes, and eventually they took me.
The interviewer was very nice and down to earth, this was actually the first interview I had where I was more outgoing and friendly. I thought I did a pretty good job, I was more interactive than I used to be in the past! It was clear to me when I asked her "What's it like to work here?", she had this look on her face... It was easy to tell that it was hectic and crazy to work there. Like, I thought maybe it's a good idea not to work there? But the place I work at now, is pretty crazy, I mentioned to her that I work in a crazy environment already.. or did I say busy? Well, something like that. The interview, I thought went well. Maybe to me, it was well because in the past I was more shy and quiet.
I emailed the Randstad representative and asked her if I could send a thank you letter to the company for interviewing me. It took her two days to respond to me, and then she gave me a sob story about how "She's sorry, but she can't give out information like that and that the company decided to choose another candidate". I was like really? It took you two days to respond to me? But other times she responded very quickly? She had some sort of ulterior motive or something.
I was like, whatever, I don't need them anyways! I also thought to look onto the website of the company and apply directly instead, but I couldn't find any ads for it...
Lesson Learned: Make sure to leave much earlier! If it takes 30 minutes to get there, leave an extra 20 minutes, or something.. this way you have extra time to get there, and chances are, they'll take you right away anyways, sometimes they may ask you to fill out forms.
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