Left From Interview Place

You have done right. Because, this was excesssive waiting to the candidate and its realy
shown that venue organization's H R practice for interviewing candidate is improper.
Right, appropriate H R practices never keep candidate on 1hr long waiting...
All the best for your upcoming interview.

I too faced a much worse situation, last year. And the shameful part was, that it happened TWICE, with the same company, in a gap of couple of months.

I was scheduled (by some consultancy) for an interview with one of the market leaders in the Consumer Electronics segment, for HR position, last year. I was called in the afternoon, and I had gone accordingly. Believe it or not, I was made to wait for 4.5 to 5 hours, before being called in. After the interview, I was told I'll be informed later (usual process).

After some one and half months, I was again called by the same consultancy, saying that this HR manager in this company wanted to meet me again. Therefore, I reached there as per my appointment given in the afternoon. A few of us were waiting for a long while, in the reception area again. After a couple of hours, one of the guys got frustrated with the wait, as he had to report back to his office, as he had taken only half day off. He got wild and left the place. The rest of us continued to patiently wait.

In between, around some 3-4 hours after I arrived, that HR manager came out for a minute, saw all of us, including me, nodded to me and went back. Despite that, he took an awfully long time to start calling candidates later. I was the last guy called in, and that was around 7 in the evening, which was again after some 5-6 hours of wait by me. And worse was, he acted naive and said he hadn't called me, and probably some miscommunication between him and the consultancy led to it. (If that was the case, he could have told me that, a couple of hours earlier itself, when he came out and met me). This was just too bad, and the height of un-professionalism from him.

Harrowing experience, truly. I don't know how such people end up as HR managers, when they don't even have basic human consideration for others.

We have had lots of different points of view here
Personally I would not like to join a company where my time at interview stage is not respected. Luckily, I take interviews and dont need to give one .....
I have faced cases where candidates have been waiting for me to conduct interviews. Some are due to unavoidable circumstances. Some, I am afraid was on carelessness on my part. In all cases, my secretary checks with me and finds out how much time people need to,wait and inform them (natural curtisy, I think)
There have also been cases where people waited because we miss estimated the amount of time I will take with each candidate.
So you probably need to find out what the reason was,
And you need to take a call
Sometimes you may miss an opportunity
Sometimes you may have saved a further waste of time

I too always ensure that I do not make my candidates wait too long. Having undergone situations myself, and having "been on the other side", I know how it feels.
The other person's time has to be valued and respected. Otherwise we do not deserve to be HR managers, if we cannot have that basic human consideration.
Exceptional cases, due to some other work-priority, is understandable. But again, even that, HAS to be communicated to the candidate, and the feasibility of the extent to which the candidate can wait, or probable re-scheduling of the interview, may be considered.
Just keeping the candidate waiting indefinitely, without any intimation, is NOT the way to go about.

Jayshree what you did was right! The interviewers know your situation very well that you are currently employed and appearing for interview by taking some time-off. I completely disagree with those to think you were being tested for your patience. There are many more ways to test your patience. What they did was humilated you. Definetely they are not professional (atleast the HR team out there).
You should have left a note to the HR explaining the circumstances and complaining about their bad treatment. At that moment of time you were their guest and they should know how to treat a visitor on their doorstep.
You really have tons of patience. Be little more patient and you will get your dream job :)
Good Luck!

Hello,
See there are many HR person associated with this particular Website, so i would request all the HR personnel to act strictly with the timing you gave for the interview.
Atleast if the interview is getting delayed please let the candidate know about the delay.
And sometimes candidate also may come late for the interview at that time if the candidate has not informed earlier then you can penalize by asking him to sit for half an hour not more than that , because he may be late but we should understand that atleast due to his busy schedule in his present organization he has arranged time to came for the interview and if he is a fresher then also you should allow only half an hour penalization.
I hope this small small things will keep HR image high in every organization.
Regards

Mr G Krishnan,
What happened with you was really disgusting. But then why can't you disclose the name of the company? Let other forum members know about the insensitivity of that company's managers.
This is what is the role of social media is. Have no worry about their brand image. If they do not care about their brand image then why you should be?
Thanks,
Dinesh V Divekar

The only reason I did not disclose the name, was from the point of view of Business Ethics. And Cite HR being a renowned HR forum, the concerned person too, could well be on the forum, and I thought it may not be a good thing to indulge in.
Though, if the majority here feel so, and the forum etiquette too encourages/permits the same, I don't mind disclosing the organisation's name.

Dear Krishnan
You have done the right thing by not disclosing. In the past, when bloggers have named the company, I have edited out the name of the company.

Your interview start form reception itself, but you don’t have paitions, so you are fail in first round. If you have any time commitment you need to tell HR they will consider.
Regards
Vijay