The guy is absolutely definitely wasting time consciously and on purpose. Fully agree with you there. Figuring out how to fix that particular case still require

The guy is absolutely definitely wasting time consciously and on purpose. Fully agree with you there. Figuring out how to fix that particular case still requires knowing the whole story. And yeah, when I interview, I know some of my time is going to be wasted, there’s no way around that, but it’s better to (1) research the job/company before interviewing, (2) use the interview as part of your research to filter out bad companies to work for like this one, (3) focus on the goal of finding a good employer, good salary, etc. One way to look at this is that the manager might be, in the big picture, saving time for the candidates. It might be much worse for them if they were to take the job, it might be years of time wasting as opposed to an hour.