I waited 30 minutes for a job interview when the recruiter didn’t show up because I’m “poor and desperate.”

A woman has sparked debate online after waiting 30 minutes for a virtual job interview while the recruiter never showed up.

Sragavi Pattanaik, a pre-med student at the University of Maryland, posted a TikTok joke about the situation she was in charge of @sragvipattanaik.

The clip has already been seen by more than 940,000 people, who flocked to the comments section to share their own experiences.

In the video, she filmed herself waiting for the Zoom call, laughing awkwardly as she stared at her laptop screen.

Alongside the clip, she wrote: ‘I’m stuck on a no-show interview for 30 minutes because I’m poor and desperate.’

Meanwhile, the video’s caption simply read: “Rough out here.”

But it seems like this is a common problem, as most viewers agreed with the student and used the comments to share their relatable experiences.

Someone commented: ‘I emailed after waiting 30 minutes and they replied with a rejection’.

A second wrote: ‘I went to a job interview where the manager was 2.5 hours late and I waited and she didn’t give me the job.’

Meanwhile, someone else advised, “After a few minutes, email the recruiter or coordinator!”

But Sragavi explained, “I did, that’s why I stayed the 30 minutes in case they saw it.”

Another curious viewer asked her to “drop the company name,” while someone else added that they would “email them and thank them for the job offer and ask what my start date would be.”

One angry job seeker joked, “The field is so ridiculous that I did an online job interview, got rejected, went to a hiring event for the same place a week later and got hired on the spot.”

Someone else wondered, “What if the interview is just to see what you would do if the interviewer doesn’t show up?”

Another disappointed person said: ‘I waited 45 minutes and emailed around the 20 minute mark and I was just completely confused. Not even an apology or anything.”

However, one commenter with a positive experience recalled, “Listen, I once waited in a lobby for three hours for an interview. Three hours.

“But I got the job, and because of that experience, I got a great job and now I can apply to medical school because I have a lot of PCH.”

Another agreed, writing, “I did this and got the job!”

But someone else advised: “Email after five minutes and if you don’t have a response after ten minutes, dip.”

Another viewer made light of the situation, joking: “Do you have the required 10 years of experience to join the zoom call?”

The debate comes just after a boss claimed that new university graduates in Britain have become so used to working from home that they are not even coming into the office for a job interview.

The post-lockdown work-from-home boom has seen employers downsize their premises, blaming ‘entitled’ and ‘quiet quit’ Gen Zers who have entered the world of work remotely and are reportedly resistant are against changing their habits.

Bosses have offered ridiculous perks such as pool tables and office animals to get staff to work, but a new poll shows they are seen as ‘useless’ by younger staff who want support and benefits directly linked to their personal development.

Research conducted in 2023 shows that younger workers who started their careers from their bedrooms during the coronavirus pandemic actually want to be with their colleagues – but only if they feel their work is worthwhile.

Other employers and experts say Gen Zers are dedicated workers at heart, but a generational shift in their attitude toward work means they want to be valued as employees before they make a habit of coming into the office.