I arrived early and immediately had trouble finding parking... It was a madhouse. I thought I stepped foot in some metropolis there were people coming and going, talking, parking. I get inside... and there's no one to greet me. I am flagging everyone down walking out asking if they can help me get where I'm going. They help me find my way to the room, but no one is there. I go back to the front desk (where there's still no one to greet) and proceed to wait until someone can call who I'm looking for. I was already frustrated, I arrived early and now was 20 mins late to my interview purely because there was no one to contact, of course the recruiter is also unavailable when I call him. Finally a security guard comes in and says he was taking a smoke break and proceeds to call my 2 interviewers.
1 of them comes out to greet me and I make a joke about the lateness and the fiasco I had just gone through and it was as though the interviewer didn't even recognize I was late... after the interview I realized the culture must allow for there to be tardiness.
He walks me to the room that I was originally waiting in and tells me about himself/the company. I COULD NOT HEAR HIM. Not only did he have an accent, but the whole time I felt like I was listening to a mouse. I asked him to repeat himself on multiple occasions but didn't want to make the interview become centered around yet another flaw in the process.
I begin to tell him what I do, contract administration primarily, few jit contracts, software buyer. In walks the second interviewer --very casual and informal. I get up and introduce myself, and can feel the whole time these guys think I'm "uptight." --Most people would call it professional, especially during an interview. At some point one of the interviewers told me to relax. Hmmmm.... very rude considering I feel I was being myself and answering the questions to the best of my ability. Anyway, the whole time they ask me questions that are clearly relevant to the job, but would not have been relevant to me if they had even LOOKED at my resume. I had described my experience as X and they asked Y questions --even though I told them I haven't done manufacturing, even though there was nothing on my resume that hinted at what they were asking.
The whole thing was a mess, they weren't looking at me in the eyes. I wanted to get up and walk out. At one point there was a worker peering through the meetingroom window and my interviewers became unsure whether they still had the room (because we had started so late and the recruiter setup the room) so we walked out of the room to give the worker the space AND THEY WANTED TO FINISH THE INTERVIEW IN THE RECEPTION AREA. ARE YOU KIDDING? That's how much respect they have for people coming in to interview. Continuing to be professional, I walked out, but we immediately went back into the room when the worker disappeared. At that point I was done... we sat back down, I probably asked them one final question and said that was all I had for them.
I have studied hospitality technology and been in the software industry, and had always looked at Aristocrat as THEE leading gaming company. In the interview I mentioned something along those lines, and the response I got from them was "I don't think it's hospitality technology at all.. We're more of a manufacturer." Okay guy, I'm sure your CEO would love that line in your marketing plan.
This interview taught me a lot about respect on all sides, recruiter included. I will never waste my time on this company again.