Interviewed at a biomedical visual design role with 6 years of experience with biomedical microfluidics and 2 years in scientific visualization in museum exhibits with 2 internal referrals all from college mates. The recruiter said "i see you were internally referred, and its all fireworks and rainbows so i know its not true" which was odd. I couldnt tell if he was being mean on purpose Everytime we dived into experience and background he kept cutting me off after I barely started.
Then got really tough personality curveball questions.
I kept being asked "name 3 things you like in a manager and 3 things you didnt like" and then he kept saying "what are you bad at, and dont name the fake weaknesses" like he kept interrupting me and saying I was not being "relatable enough" it was a really weird interview. Not a single questjon about experience or what interested me in the role or anything one regularly expects.
And when i explained the manager thing I was like "Oh i dont prefer when mangers than dont let you think outside the box" And he was like "Youre being really philosophical just answer the question" so | had to dumb myself down for him.
He was like "name 2 things your bad at, this is a trap by the way" and i was like "ill need a moment to about that question" and he was like "look youre clearly overthinking the question" the whole time he kept interrupting me and pointing out that I wasnt relateble enough. Interviewed at loads of places gotten diffeent jobs, never got anything like this. Probably shouldnt take on this job at all right?