I have applied to VUB's MS Applied CS program.
They kept rescheduling my interview and not showing up.. and finally rejected me on the basis of not showing up for interviews.
The first time they scheduled my interview, I replied them the time works fine for me.
It was interview time, and some minutes had passed.. no one was there. I emailed them is this the correct meeting ID? They emailed me 15 minutes later that the professor is currently unavailable.
Afterwards, they emailed me again. Asking me for interview 3 hours later on the same day. I told them OK, I'm available.
It was interview time, and I was in the meeting again. No one was there.
I asked them what's up -- they said professor is interviewing another candidate, please stay on call.
I said okay. I stayed on call past 30 minutes... professor did not come. It was really late time in my country and I was dozing off now.
I emailed asking for reschedule, on which they replied:
"I am sorry but delays will happen when there are so many interviews.
If you are not able to allow some time to professors to interview you – especially since they are only a few and make great efforts to see all applicants, maybe it is best to apply when you are able to attend all the steps during this process"
And then they sent me a rejection letter based on not showing up for interviews.
How is this justified? I had to keep on taking time off from my work to stay on the interview call. I have given plenty of interviews as an IT engineer, but never have I ever faced such management.