The interviewer is late, but I can tolerate it for 30 minutes!

I can tolerate the interviewer being late for 30 minutes! Rice made an appointment to attend the interview at 10 o'clock and arrived at the company applying for the job 5 minutes early. But he waited in the conference room for 30 minutes and still didn't see the interviewer coming. So I politely asked about the whereabouts of the interviewer at the front desk, but was told that the interviewer had not arrived at the company yet. Rice did not wait any longer and chose to give up the interview.

If it were you and the interviewer was late, what would you do? Stay? Or choose when to leave? We conducted relevant surveys on the job search forum for fresh graduates (bbs..com). The survey shows that the job seekers set the minimum waiting limit at "30 minutes" (see the figure below).

Picture: How long can you tolerate the interviewer being late?

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Depending on the job search status, it is not difficult to find that unemployed job seekers are more "tolerant". Endure some inequality and endure the loneliness of waiting. For recruiters who have an advantage, this pie chart can not only help interviewers improve their recruitment behavior, but also enable some interviewers to better grasp the weaknesses of job applicants, thereby allowing them to work more freely. How to choose? Judges, please make your own decisions.

Thoughts of job seekers

Eager for success: Good companies should treat them differently

Netizen "time changes space": I can wait 30 for a company with average benefits minutes; for better companies I wait 60 minutes. It's a bad company. If I don't show up within 10 minutes, I'll leave.

Netizen "Horses stepping on flying stones": It depends on the company. A first-class company has a formal system after all, and will only make you wait if something really comes up, so it's worth the wait. For a second-rate company, I would push more and reluctantly wait for a while. It's a third-rate company. Even if something really happens, I can't help but just leave.

It is really easy to distinguish the treatment based on the size of the company. But can double-standard judgment help your life? To this end, some netizens raised objections.

Netizen "Xiaobai": If waiting can be divided into three, six or nine, the entire environment will eventually condone the interviewer's tardiness. I think there should be a generally agreed upon reasonable range. If the interviewer exceeds this time frame, it is a disrespect for the interviewer. Job seekers should also arrive at the interview location in time. The key is that HR cannot use this "reasonable time" to excuse themselves. For example, they are clearly chatting or dealing with non-important matters, but they would rather let job seekers wait.

Extreme die-hard: I am willing to wait until all the flowers fade

Netizen "Brother Qinglang": If it were a Fortune 500 company, I would wait until the interviewer came. After all, this It's the job I want. Even if the interviewer of such a company is late, the company's reputation represents its credibility, so even if it is late for a long time, I will not consider it rude. My boss at my current company is busy with work and often in meetings. Once he made a job applicant wait for about 2 hours, so I can understand the interviewer's lateness. Especially now that it is difficult to find a job and even harder to find a good job, if I really want to get a job, I am willing to wait. Even if I let go today, I will still come and wait the next day, and I will not give away a good job because of impulsiveness.

Netizen "xiaomin80": It's not a big deal if the interviewer is late. It depends on whether you really need a job. When I just graduated, I went to a Japanese company and waited for ten hours. The boss realized my sincerity and hired me on the spot. If you don’t have anything else important to do on the day of the interview, it doesn’t hurt to wait. The key is to see if the interviewer can sincerely apologize and explain the reason for being late when he appears. Sometimes things happen unexpectedly for the boss and he has to deal with them. We have to be considerate.

Wuyou Ku Comment: People in different environments have different desires for opportunities.

How can we let a job seeker who is eager to start a job tomorrow give up the chance of survival for half an hour or an hour? Job seekers are free to choose how long to wait, and how long the interviewer asks the job seeker to wait is a reflection of professionalism.

Confrontation between interviewers

Villain interviewer: You are one less, not less

Netizen "Little Shanghai": I am a technical interviewer. When interviewing software engineers/senior software engineers/project managers, I have been late several times. There are many objective reasons for being late, so I won’t go into details, but I usually notify HR to arrange for the applicant to come back another day. I suggest that if you come to apply, you should put down your airs. I’m sorry for wasting your time. But for me, there are too many applicants. If you are more than you, it is not more, and if you are less, you are not more. Can you say that you are the most suitable?

A decent interviewer: there are only three things that can be done

Netizen "Youran Xingyue": I hate technical interviewers like "Little Shanghai" the most. As an HR, I only allow these technical interviewers to "irritate" candidates twice. This is my bottom line. The third time I will tell him that the job seeker cannot wait anymore and has gone home. After a few more candidates "go home", I believe this great interviewer understands the importance of time.

Worry-free cool review: Interviewers will have to interview hundreds of job seekers in their lifetime, but they will still become job seekers one day. Some people say that the world is actually very small. In fact, the circle of Fortune 500 companies is even smaller. If you agree with this view, whether you can treat everyone you meet well will determine how you are treated in the future.

Chess game: Being late is a test. Can you show your loyalty?

Representative of Zhengfang

Netizen "Yuhua": There is an allusion to our company. The boss’s boss, in order to open up the Japanese market, went to negotiate with Japan’s largest import company. He hit a wall twice and waited for 2 hours for the third time before finally seeing it. It was this opportunity that made our total sales in Japan become China’s. twice. So, I suddenly understood why my boss made me wait for 2 hours when he gave me an interview. This was actually a test. The job seeker's willingness to wait also shows a sense of loyalty.

Representative of the opposition

Netizen "Luofan's Day": Only those who can wait for more than a few hours are loyal to the company? What is loyalty? Loyalty is linked to the company's performance and welfare. Of course, the company's interpersonal relationships are simple and easy to retain people. An inch of time is worth an inch of gold. If you don't know how to cherish your own time, others will not respect your time either.

Netizen "Cai Ya": When selecting a more patient person among many people, how about ensuring that person's overall quality? I think it would be better for the examiner to ask questions to the candidates during the interview, which would be more effective.

Netizen "Xiaobai": This can test a person's patience, but it lacks credibility. Those who stay must be patient? not necessarily. There can be many subjective factors, such as urgent need to work, wanting to miss the rush hour, waiting for friends to have lunch, etc.

Case study: All kinds of late interviewers

Narrator: Kunlun Mountain

Every time I go for an interview, I will always be reminded by HR: "I hope to be on time. Don’t be late when you arrive, we have strict regulations.” However, if you are stuck in traffic on the way to the interview unit or are late for some unnecessary reasons, no matter what the reason is, it will always be considered late in the eyes of HR, and you may not be eligible for the interview. The chance of "two faces" is not that great either. This is a truth that our candidates know very well.

However, I have participated in some interviews, and it is not uncommon for interviewers to be late. Leave the job seeker there for more than half an hour, and then ask some incomprehensible questions. Don't you think it's ridiculous? Excuse me, we are not allowed to be late. Why can the interviewer be late? Will the interviewer lose a talent that will be crucial to the department and even the company in the future because of his own randomness? Or is it because the interviewer is indifferent or even arrogant that the importance of talents can be ignored? HR won't admit it, but they keep being late.

Narrator: dongzhiyan

I also encountered such a thing, the interviewer made me wait for 2 hours in vain. At first, after waiting for half an hour, I anxiously asked the front desk, and the front desk replied: "The manager will be back in another 15 minutes." 15 minutes later, I asked the front desk again, and she still gave the same answer: "Just wait another 15 minutes." This repeated, and in the end I waited for more than 2 hours. In the end, I left without waiting for the interviewer to come.

Including the 1 hour round trip by car, it was a full morning of my time, as well as the round trip fare. In this regard, I think their recruitment is deceptive. It is conceivable that the internal affairs operations of such a company must be quite complicated.

Narrator: Colored Popcorn:

I also waited for a long time once. The interviewer asked me to come at a certain time. I arrived on time, but he delayed for so long. What I was most angry about was that I was assigned to the last one, and I was not the last one to go. It was past seven o'clock. I went in and only talked for a word or two before saying, "Okay, let's make an appointment to talk. I still have an important client to meet." The next day, history repeated itself. I was asked to arrive at a certain time, but I still had to wait for almost two hours, even though the interviewer's assistant from the company I was applying for kept saying sorry and comforting me.

Finally I was accepted by the company. But I decided not to go to that company. After all, there were several integrity issues during the interview process. It was disrespectful to job seekers. This shows that their work efficiency and company culture are also average. It is better to choose a company that respects job seekers more. company.

This is the appropriate thing to do when HR is late

Netizen "Hua Xingwu": I think as an interviewer, you should arrange the time on the day of the interview and not let job seekers wait in vain. If you are really overwhelmed, you should arrange company personnel and explain the reason to the job seeker, and politely ask if you can wait a moment. At the same time, providing some information for job seekers to read is a sign of respect for job seekers. After all, every person who applies for a job may become a future colleague.

Postscript: Some people suggest that recruitment websites establish a "worst quality HR ranking list" to supervise the details of the HR recruitment process and provide job seekers with a comprehensive understanding of the application process. company. This opinion, which was put forward in an unemotional mood, was supported by many netizens. It is not difficult to imagine the harsh interview environment for job seekers today. Perhaps this recruitment market, which is full of "squeeze" and "fake employment", forces us to change our peaceful values ??and choose to do things quickly and quickly. However, when we are old and look back on this troubled and angry experience, the things we pursue are just clouds.

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