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Everything in interviews is "par for the course". You're dealing with other humans and their own odd expectations of what is "normal".

Getting interviewed for a sales position adds another layer of absurdities because some people expect sales interviewees to over-sell themselves and be overly diligent in followup, negotiating salaries, etc. I personally don't subscribe to that line of thinking, but know many people who do.

In ANY case, if they made a commitment to you and missed the agreed-upon deadline, you should give them a small grace period (maybe 24 hours) and then followup. This would be true even if you were interviewing to be the backup-tape swapper guy.



I left the interview and he said, "I'll have an offer for you by this afternoon" and then he said, "We'd like to hire you on the first (of december).

So he clearly missed both of those.




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