Until the phone interview, everything was great. I was invited later to visit their office, for an in-person interview.
Then it came the onsite interview:
I don't know how that HR employee keeps the job. The person was sadly so unprepared.
How does an HR person ask an interviewee about kids and marital status? WOOOT?
The impression I first had is that everyone is kind of passive, but picky. I felt no passion from anyone in there, no tension to make something better and better. You can feel their very slow paced environment after 1 min inside their office. It looks that you work your position and ...that's all. Confort zone environment.
My head became a blue screen right before the interview; I couldn't believe I would spend the next minutes in there. It was hard to keep going because you are tense due to the "interview factor" but also because you are constantly thinking how ridiculous that, in 2018, people cannot plan and structure an interview process. There were no hypothetical or behavioral questions, nothing that could analyze my mindset and how do I think.
I didn't manage well the feeling of wasting my time, my enormous disappointment. I couldn't contain myself, blew away silly answers and tense-laughing a lot. I turned the automatic pilot on and answered repeated questions with repeated and cliche answers. I wanted to get away from there ASAP.
I did follow back to be polite (I had my reasons for that), but wow, what an experience!
At least I could serve it for a salary increase in my current company and some changes I was negotiating long ago, after showing that I was indeed looking at the neighbors' garden.