To think this job interview was ridiculous. To think it had gone to someone internal.

[Miajonesssss]

So, i was invited to a job interview (teaching interview - primary). The email inviting me to the interview gave me a prepared question (to show how I would use blended learning) and said 4 more questions will be asked.

The school was half an hour away. I arrived and was greeted by the headteacher who told me the interview will only take 5 minutes due to covid so don't be worried if they cut the interview short.
I smiled and said that's fine (although on the inside I thought it was weird).

I had four people interview me and I was asking 4 questions which included the blended learning question. No safeguarding, scenario, curriculum, assessment etc. questions were asked.
The fifth question was just "are you still interested in the job?'

They then rang me 15 minutes after I left to tell me I was unsuccessful. I did not ask for feedback as I usually do as what can they feed back to me froma 5 minute interview?
I just said "okay that's fine. Thank you". Then there was an awkward silence on the phone as if expecting me to ask for feedback and then a 'okay bye'

AIBU that this was a complete time waster. I spent a lot of time preparing printouts for the blended learning question just for a 5 minute 'interview'?

I had a very similar interview for an NHS role. 5 minute interview, 3 minutes of which comprises of the introduction and explaining the carparking. Then one question of "why do you want to work for the NHS". That was it.
Someone from HR phoned me a while later, saying (unsurprisingly) I hadn't got the job, I laughed and said I wasn't surprised. She asked why, I explained about the interview and asked if it had gone to an internal candidate...to which she got flustered and said she couldn't really say.
Funnily enough I've not bothered applying for another job at that hospital.

It's very strange that they didn't ask the safeguarding questions, that would ring alarm bells for me

I've just remembered when I went for an interview in the civil service. I was a civil servant, so technically internal, like the others on the shortlist would be, but I was at a different unit. I recall seeing the list of interviewees (can read upside down) when I checked in at the guardroom on arrival, and recognising one name on the list. I knew that person worked at that unit, and sure enough, she got the job.