# She Waited in the Video Lobby. The Director “Didn’t See Her” and Left.

**[TRUE STORY]** — by Candidate · via r/recruitinghell

She is an HR professional, currently employed, interviewing quietly with a fairly large company. She had already completed a video interview, a take-home assignment, and an in-person interview, and by her account all three went well. Then came ten days of silence. Then an invitation to a final interview with a director.

Scheduling was awkward, because she was employed and had mandatory in-office days. She first suggested a Wednesday during her lunch hour; they settled on a Friday, when she would be working from home.

On the Friday she joined the video link on time and sat in the waiting room. Nobody admitted her. She waited, then emailed the recruiter. The reply: the director had joined, hadn’t seen her, and had left after five minutes. No phone number or alternative way to join had ever been provided — strange, she thought, for a company of that size.

What bothered her more than the missed slot was the tone. The recruiter’s messages felt defensive — as though accusing her of never having joined, when she had been sitting in the link the whole time. They then offered a single replacement slot, on a Monday, knowing she was required in the office that day. She asked again for the Wednesday; the director, apparently, had no other availability.

She was already uneasy. If hired, she would be working closely with this recruiter — and the salary was not especially competitive. Part of her wanted to withdraw; part of her felt she had already invested too much to walk away.

*Source: [r/recruitinghell · new post](https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/1wxiinj/canon_recruitment_process_should_i_withdraw_from/)*
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