Sometime ago I interviewed for a big and well known MNC … I thought that the discussions went pretty well but after a few days got a callback but this time for a different group, that is, restart of the process 😦 . After some days another call and same story. “The last discussion went pretty well but unfortunately we could not hire you since we got an internal candidate. It is our company policy to give priority to internal candidates.”
After a few such good interviews but bad experiences I asked the HR representative for a frank opinion about whether I had a fair shot at the job or was I making up for numbers ( do they have a target of ‘n’ interviewees per position) . The answer was an expected ” we have fair hiring practices ” etc. But I didn’t get anymore calls.
Why do people do such things? Why force a candidate to take a day off to interview when you know beforehand that you are fulfilling some shortsighted HR policy.