I had an interview last week and asked, perfectly reasonably imo 'what's your management style and do you expect the same style of your direct reports?' to which the woman interviewing me (the job reports to her) said 'ooh, who's interviewing who here?' My answer to that is "I'm interviewing you too to see if I want to work for you" ! although of course I didn't say so. Coupled with that, they have just rearranged a second interview for tomorrow and made it an evening later in the week, to see the same people I saw last time. So, my questions are:
a) why didn't they find out what they needed to know the first time? IME and O second interviews are usually to meet different people or to test on other stuff, i.e. to do psychometric testnig etc, which I wouldn't have a problem with
b) should alarm bells be ringing that they're so disorganised that they didn't find out all they needed to know the first time? Also, I think it's damn rude to change it at v short notice and to make it an evening appt
c) what do you think of her response to my question or do you think it was a too 'in yer face' question? I asked it very politely and managing people is a large part of the job so I thought it fair enough.
d) Am I being unreasonable?
As always, all views welcome! I wish I could tell them to eff off because they're too unprofessional for my liking but I need a job! TIA.
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WideWebWitch · 18/07/2005 11:58
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