500 miles, £ 100 travel and a day of my life

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

for just 35 mins of interview in London. Kind of puts a lid on my London/banking searches now. I'll never contract in London again.

So, I turn up for my 1 hour meeting and the guy hasn't even bothered to reserve a room. The receptionist is frantically trying to make a reservation but can only find a room for 30 mins. So, I'm shown to the room and the guy turns up looking flustered and stressed out. Gives me 4 sheets of paper with C# code fragments, etc. What's the output of this, write an algorithm for that, code-review this. Slightly annoying as I'd already sat an IKM online test and shot 96%. Anyhow the guy disappears and comes back 30 mins later at which point I'd finished. Felt I did a good job. We chat through the answers for about 5 mins and then he thanks me and says he'll be in touch through the agency. That's it! Nothing about the project, nothing about what I've been doing. I've never felt so short changed coming out of a meeting. Told the agent I'm not interested in pursuing the role further.

Spoke to an agent friend about this and he knows the guy and his team. Says there's constant friction in the team with some members 'hating' each other. Lucky escape eh? What is it with these people?

I did that once. You only need to do it that one time to know not to do it next time...... Travelling to London, staying there overnight, getting into a sardine tube and being one of the sardines, spending over £100 for all that crap.

[dynamicsaxcontractor]

I did that once. You only need to do it that one time to know not to do it next time...... Travelling to London, staying there overnight, getting into a sardine tube and being one of the sardines, spending over £100 for all that crap.

Could get even worse, you could actually get the contract and have to do it on a regular basis........

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Could get even worse, you could actually get the contract and have to do it on a regular basis........

I decided I didn't want the contract by the time I had to got to the interview so that isn't necessarily the case!

[psychocandy]

Years ago went to London for interview. Told agent no way was I interested in London but he assured me there was a position local to me just interview was in London.

Of course, after 5 mins, during interview they said did I plan to relocated to London? (it was permie role). WTF, no. Became clear it was never going to be anywhere else but London. End of interview.

Phoned agent and played hell. He admitted he thought I might change my mind if I liked the role. FFS I couldnt have been more clear.

In the end, made him cough up £100 for my train fare. (I was jobless at the time so it was a fair bit of money for me).