I received an email from HR a few days from the time I sent in my resume, asking for available dates/times to talk. We connected a couple days later on the phone and had a 30-minute initial screen - review of my resume, questions about why I applied/was interested in Xylem. The standard initial phone interview. Then nothing. More than three weeks later, the same HR representative reached out via email saying the team would like to meet with me in-person. The rep explained I would be meeting with a high-level person in the communications department, another HR representative and taking a writing test. An interview date was set for a few weeks from then. A day before my scheduled in-person interview, the same HR representative emailed saying the person i was to meet in the communications department had a "scheduling conflict" and could I come in another time? A new date was set for a couple of weeks from that point. The day of the interview finally arrives. I am well-prepared and come to Xylem headquarters very excited about meeting the team. The same HR representative greets me in the lobby, we exchange pleasantries for about one minute and then she ushers me into a tiny room where I wait for the communications department interviewer to come in. Then I wait some more. Twenty minutes later, the interviewer comes into the room with a cell phone in her hand, barely glances up at me, and says she's sorry for the delay. The interviewer then launches into a long overview about the company - 90 percent of which is all on the website and their social media channels. Throughout the meeting, the interviewer kept glancing down at her cell phone. I think during the entire 40 minutes I was with the interviewer, I was asked maybe two or three questions. It was very clear she had no interest in me. No interest in digging into my experience, background and interests. Then, an alarm goes off on her cell phone. Yup, an alarm. She apologizes again for having to leave but says it was nice meeting me and walks out the door. I knew that I didn't have the job but I was already at Xylem headquarters and had prepared so diligently that I figured I should just complete the interview. From there, the rest of the interview/writing test was standard and nice. I met with a different HR representative who asked interesting, probing questions and allowed me to do the same. The writing test took an hour. Ultimately, it was three hours of my life that I'll never get back.I'm not sure why I was brought into that interview. I have several years of corporate communications experience but I was treated like a second class citizen by the communications interviewer. Perhaps they have to fill a quota of interviews for a particular position? As an aside, I landed a comms job at a different company a month later and this Senior Manager, Corporate Communications position at Xylem has been posted online for the past seven months.