Should I be concerned working for this company?

[Strangerthangs]

Yesterday, a day before my interview the company I applied to work for sent me an email saying they are no longer interested in my application but thanked me for showing an interest. I quickly forward the email saying that to my interviewer and he replied saying to ignore that and he confirmed the time and date to which I was relieved about. Didn’t think much more about it.

The day of the interview, I turn up 5 minutes early before the scheduled interview and I was asked to take a seat and that my interviewer will be here shortly. He turned up over 10 minutes late (from the time of the scheduled interview), didn’t apologize or say why he was late. We didn’t sit in an interview room but a room which looked like where they dump stuff in. He asked me if I applied for role “xyz” when in fact I applied for role “abc”. He seemed adamant that I applied for role xyz (I even checked on the Careers’ Portal after the interview and it was definitely role abc) and he concluded that it didn’t matter & started the interview.
The interview went well and once the interview was completed - he asked to take a photocopy of my passport which I handed to him. He came back about 10 minutes later saying the photocopier isn’t working and that I’ll have to come back another time (why would I come back if I was unsuccessful?) so that he can photocopy it. He then said we’ll be in touch.

Is this normal for a company to be so unorganized? It’s not a small business, it’s a large company which employs 1,000s. Thanks

Sounds unprofessional and I wouldn't go for it

Have they really only got one photocopier?

A university by any chance?

It yes be worried

@bitchinofhitchen

A university by any chance?

Certainly not the university where I work in recruitment. OP said it was a large company with 1000s of employees.

Employers are doing some right weird things with right to work - one post interview required a picture of me holding the passport with the important page open!

In my recent position, my passport spent 6 hours at a photocopier.

Glad I'm not the only one thinking strange stuff is going on.

Were you interviewing with the hiring manager or HR?

Sounds like he was their. Into the doing the interview last minute.

I've had similar when interviewing at a large bank. late without explanation, interview conducted very late at night but we sat in a corridor, then some bizarre stuff when i asked about work life balance involving an example of a senior director showing how modern it was, but the example was a joke.. it was akin to "he doesn't make his PA make his coffee" kind of example. i thought it was a joke but it wasn't.

i immedately withdrew my application that evening, they're an employer that regularly posts about female talent shortages in technical roles... i laugh every time i spot an ad where they're trying to attract "top talent" or when any of their HR staff post about how great and modern their office is..

i'd suggest withdrawing too.

Sounds appalling.