What should I take from this tele interview feedback..?

[WTFH]

As I said this one was 100% matching role and my last role was with their end client's number one competitor!

So it wasn't an interview with an end client but with a bodyshop/consultancy

[Cirrus]

Senior means Senior

So it wasn't an interview with an end client but with a bodyshop/consultancy

I remember one of the biggest consultancies on a telephone interview. The first thing they asked was "How old are you?"

"We can't have old people managing this team."

The interview lasted about fifty seconds.

[MrMarkyMark]

So it wasn't an interview with an end client but with a bodyshop/consultancy

Who may have just slotted in one of their own.

This happens all the time.

OP just move on, you seem to hovering around like a bird of prey above a rotting corpse

[Andy2]

I remember one of the biggest consultancies on a telephone interview. The first thing they asked was "How old are you?"

"We can't have old people managing this team."

The interview lasted about fifty seconds.

That's blatant ageism. You can sue them.

[SueEllen]

That's blatant ageism. You can sue them.

You need to be able to prove it.

[SueEllen]

Who may have just slotted in one of their own.

This happens all the time.

^^^ This

The only time contractors are used is when the consultancy can't find the right skills at all and will lose the contract if they don't find someone.

If they have someone with half the skills who can be "developed" in that role and is acceptable to the client you don't get a look in.

[MrMarkyMark]

^^^ This

The only time contractors are used is when the consultancy can't find the right skills at all and will lose the contract if they don't find someone.

If they have someone with half the skills who can be "developed" in that role and is acceptable to the client you don't get a look in.

Spot on.

Funny....

Have helped with plenty of that development

[Darren_Test]

So it wasn't an interview with an end client but with a bodyshop/consultancy

They are there every where these days..

[SueEllen]

They are there every where these days..

Yep and your job is to have some niche skills they need.

[Cirrus]

That's blatant ageism. You can sue them.

I'd take blatant ageism any day over the disguised version. Taking a day out, spending on train tickets, getting up in the very early hours to drive to Doncaster to catch the first train to Edinburgh to go for a f2f after a successful, long telephone interview only for everything to go magically silent - forever. Just one example.

No blatant is a lot cheaper.