Interviewing is a skill you need to exercise and such interviews are where you are challenged to stay positive and continue the interview for further experience. Even when an interview has gone absolutely terrible and there's literally nothing they could do to convince you to work there. You work doubly hard to convince them to want to hire you. Ask them what they need you to do for them, explain how you can do it. Ask about their mission, what the business is ultimately trying to achieve. etc.
>I've had an interviewer laugh in my face when I told them my favorite language was Scheme.
Snirk, I mean, I have started to grow grey hairs. What do you think is the best solution for grey hairs?
>Then they just walked in the middle of the interview without saying a word when it wasn't going well, leaving the other interviewers to continue without them.
You may have not noticed they got told to gtfo.
>In retrospect, I think I should have politely terminated the interview myself, as I don't want to work with rude, unprofessional snobs, but I'm wondering what people here would have done, and how you've faced rudeness during interviews yourself?
Nah, waste their time. Work doubly hard to convince them to hire you. Then if they do offer you the job, you can be polite again and explain that the business sounds awesome with X mission. Lather on how awesome they all are and then say unfortunately you decline have to decline. You felt the interview didn't go well and plan to work extra hard to do better next time.
I think you're right. My initial response was to say that I'd just get up and leave, but you're right.
You're already there, you've spent the time to prepare and get there on time, etc. Might as well get as much benefit from it as you can. So use the time to hone your interviewing skills and deal with the hostility, while knowing full well that you are not going to take the job. But you'll work on making yourself as appealing as possible. And you never know if one of those interviewers will admire how you handled the situation and recommend you to someone else, or you'll come across them in another interview years later.
So yeah, make the best of the situation and use it to your advantage.
>I've had an interviewer laugh in my face when I told them my favorite language was Scheme.
Snirk, I mean, I have started to grow grey hairs. What do you think is the best solution for grey hairs?
>Then they just walked in the middle of the interview without saying a word when it wasn't going well, leaving the other interviewers to continue without them.
You may have not noticed they got told to gtfo.
>In retrospect, I think I should have politely terminated the interview myself, as I don't want to work with rude, unprofessional snobs, but I'm wondering what people here would have done, and how you've faced rudeness during interviews yourself?
Nah, waste their time. Work doubly hard to convince them to hire you. Then if they do offer you the job, you can be polite again and explain that the business sounds awesome with X mission. Lather on how awesome they all are and then say unfortunately you decline have to decline. You felt the interview didn't go well and plan to work extra hard to do better next time.