Ian Massi (9/27/2013)

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Gary Varga (9/27/2013)

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Tom Bakerman (9/27/2013)

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...Side question: I had an interview of the latter sort where after a half hour of grilling me, the interviewer excused himself and left the room. For over 30 minutes! Question to the audience: At what point would you have left? I didn't leave because this was my first or second interview being back on the market, and after the first 5 minutes I knew I wasn't going to come back for another, so I decided to use it as practice...

I hate this practice. It does not differentiate between lack of initiative and manners. I suppose, to argue with myself, one could go to reception, however, if I made it to reception only to find out it was a test I feel that I would be unlikely to accept any offer.

Leaving an interviewee for half an hour to stew is a practice? I once had the interviewer show up about half an hour late for the interview. I didn't really try on the interview after that since I had no intention of working there but went through the paces as a sort of practice anyway. Nowadays we have smartphones so I'd likely fire up a round of Plants vs Zombies or something like that and if there was no interviewer when I had finished (10-15 minutes), I'd probably just let someone know that I'm leaving. Wouldn't want to work somewhere that disrespects someone. If there was some kind of emergency (like kid in the hospital thing, not project behind schedule and stakeholder needs to talk thing) then they'll call, apologize and offer reschedule.