Several weeks after applying online, I received a call back from a recruiter who said she will try to arrange an interview for me in person. She emailed me back with the time and the name of the person who was to interview me.
Before coming to the interview, I checked him out on linkedin to see with whom I'd be dealing. To begin with, in his photo, he looks so smug and self important he might burst from excessive narcissism. He studied hospitality in one country, while apparently simultaneously having worked in another for a number of years, which of course is implausible unless he had a time machine and/or a teleporter.
Once I showed up for the interview, the guy didn't even look at me as he immediately proclaimed that this is not an interview as they are looking to hire somebody else. This somebody else I imagine would be most definitely a male, and his education would not even be that important as long as he has the affinity of playing computer games to give an illusion of intelligence that often goes with geekiness.
True to my initial profiling, he was a pompous creature who after his grand proclamation, continued to waste an hour of my life 'mock interviewing' me, but in a manner to show off how full of himself he is.
Anyway, in this time waste of an 'interview', he bragged about how he is the senior analyst and that his background is in economics (not sure in which world hospitality management passes for economics) and then proceeded to ask me a bunch of random unstructured questions about my background (but always cutting me off with drawing his own premature conclusions) and later on some more specific questions regarding to improvements to the customer satisfaction surveys. All the suggestions I gave he immediately shot down while saying his subordinate analysts suggested the same (the suggestions given were logical and came from people with actual knowledge, but this just gives you an idea about the sort calibre of people in charge who will always belittle you to feel big). Near the end, when I explained an obvious flaw and a huge mistake in a survey which he probably 'designed', he said that this position would not be suitable for me and he saw me out the door saying how there are other companies out there.