They knew their decision before interview

[jalepenocheese]

I applied for a higher position in my branch but was told my management team could not interview me because they knew me as such. Therefore I had to wait for someone else be available to interview me.
Fast forward over a month later I got my interview date so I prepared myself very well. My interviewer was another manager from another branch who I knew (previously worked in another branch together) my interview was over within half the expected time and I was told I would hear back in 3 days.

A few hours after my interview I got told the decision that I was unsuccessful in passing the interview by just 2 points. And they told me who did get the position. I know the person in question and they knew the interviewer very well (they worked together in same branch) this person also handed in their resignation about a month ago with the company! They are good at their job and had job offers with other companies.

I feel like the company didn’t want to lose her so offered her a higher position more £££ and already knew they were going to give her the position. But had to interview to be ‘fair’

Thoughts?

@Gwenhwyfar

"When I asked why I was told they do it purely on how you score in the interview and disregard what they already know (they’d told me they were happy with what I was doing). I mean if that was true or not I don’t know."

Probably is. It's silly though. What better way do you have of predicting how someone would do a job than seeing them do it? How you perform in an interview doesn't have much to do with how you perform in a job anyway.

My thoughts exactly. I found being interviewed by people I already knew quite well and had been joking with in the staff room 5 minutes earlier quite weird. But somehow they were prepared to take on people they’d met for 15 minutes and hadn’t seen do the job and also had to wait to start? I was already right there already fully trained all they needed to do was give me a new contact.

I left the industry and retrained in a new area after that