I’m trying to make sense of what just happened here and if I’m overreacting. This past week I felt something was off, but thought I might just be overthinking it. I’ve had a good long working relationship with her.
Fast forward to the first interview of the day and my boss mentions that I dislike working certain events we have. It catches me off guard because our group is no longer assigned to events and I don’t think I’ve expressed a dislike. Then she proceeded mention that I’m soft spoken and she couldn’t see a customer talking badly to me as a result. She also said when I first started working for her I was afraid to come into her office when she mentioned her open door policy. I was never uncomfortable with that either. I briefly joked after the interview that I didn’t feel that way.
To say the least, I left the first interview pretty upset.
To make it even stranger, the following interviews we had for the day she starts to compliment me and mention some accomplishments I have.
I’m not sure if this is normal behavior during an interview, but I’ve never really heard someone mention things like this to a candidate.