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1. HR was extremely unprofessional.
I arrived at this company on time for the interview, but ended up waiting at the entrance for 20 minutes before finding someone from HR to take me inside.
I suspect HR had completely forgotten about this interview.
After I finished filling out the application form, HR disappeared again. I waited another 20 minutes before the hiring manager came in to interview me.
2. The hiring manager was extremely disrespectful toward the interviewee.
I was interviewed by a female manager.
Before the interview, I had already informed the manager in writing that I had no prior FAE experience.
However, at the very beginning of the interview, she asked how I would respond if, three days after being hired, I were sent abroad to resolve a customer's issue.
I replied in surprise, “Would the company really send an employee who had only been there for three days abroad to resolve a customer issue? Would there be no training?”
She then became furious.
The next 40-plus minutes of the interview consisted of her constantly bragging about herself (how amazing she was and how she could do every kind of job; how she was a supervisor; how she had dumped her first boyfriend because he was too inadequate; how, when frontline employees complained to her about being humiliated by their direct supervisors, she told them to swallow it themselves because that was simply how the workplace worked and they had to find their own solutions) and insulting the interviewee (saying that I had low emotional intelligence and a bad temper, that it was pitiful to be my girlfriend, that I had little workplace experience, that entering the workforce meant accepting humiliation from supervisors and customers, and that I absolutely had to obey my superiors).
I calmly explained myself to her again and tried to continue calming her down, but in the end, I simply could not imagine what I would have to face if I joined this company. I had no choice but to tell her a few minutes early that I was leaving.
Of course, I did not receive an offer in the end.