Bizarre job interview
This was perplexing and as fellow ENFPs I would love your take on it. I was doing a job interview and the interviewer asked me why I decided to do a master's degree (did my previous degree a decade before and completed my master's a year before). I thought that an odd question but gave her the benefit of the doubt. Told her I wanted to improve my strategic thinking and competencies because I felt like I needed to learn more and it delivered in that, plus I wanted to improve my credentials to open the door to more opportunities for me because at my then employers if I wanted to get any of the positions above me I needed a relevant Master's to be considered. She asked questions and found out I took some months off to do my dissertation (plus I had a baby). I finished everything and had return to work. She gets angry at me during the interview and asked me how dare I take off time (note: the company offered it because they wanted me to do well. They understood it would be I overwhelming with my baby and work to do a good dissertation, plus they had interest in my dissertation because the topic included the industry I worked in and they wanted to use the results). The interviewer verbally lashed out at me. Looking back at it I'm wondering if she was having some kind of mental breakdown that I got caught in. But why I doubt if it's really that is because I have encountered other people from that company and all have this weird thing where they think it's better to stay with one company to show your loyalty than to change jobs. They are extremely judgy of people who change jobs.....yet there they are advertising for a position for someone with years of experience from elsewhere.Their devotion to staying loyal to the company feels cult like.
The woman said I should have been content with Bachelor's degree I had and at most do a program that wouldn't have interrupted my work at all. She didn't contact me after that but I don't care. Her attitude (and later discovering others there are like that) really put me off and I was not going to work with that. I later heard a HR person at the company comment that whenever she sees that people pursue jobs while having a current job she thinks they must be an evil person or incompetent (what?????).
It was such a bizarre interview. Being berated for improving my qualifications. I tried discussing it with my ISTP hubby but he just encouraged me not to think about it. He's not getting that I don't want to think about it to resolve it, but rather I just want to discuss it to make sense, or not of what that was cuz it was so bizarre