I was grilled. There was no way anyone could bluff their way through an interview like that. They asked questions about minutiae related to obscure institutional knowledge. The kind of things you know only if you've done it for years. I'm one of those institutional memory carriers so they wanted me.
The second 'interview' was with the Director and it was basically her asking the same questions only in a skimming way, hitting only the highlights in a machine gun rat-tat-tat way. At one point I wanted to get sarcastic and ask her if she had even read the detailed responses I had given to these questions previously, but instead I smiled a tiny bit and put on my 'I'm totally interested in every word that comes out of your mouth' mask.
At the end I found out what the interview was really about. She told me she would be micromanaging me and that if she didn't like what I did she would definitely let me go. In other words she pissed on me to show me I was her property. They always give themselves away.
the last interview I did with a hiring committee included someone on there who didn't know that my profession was considered a profession with training that others don't have.
seriously.
but the position dealt with cross-discipline areas so... whatever.
and then they hired the one person who was not a professional from the field. then the position came open just a couple of months later, then I reapplied and had another couple of rounds of interviews. then got the news the position is frozen.
all to say...
it's nice to hear GOOD NEWS!!
I'm glad they got your humor, even if they are a front for the Satanist church. :)
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