On Friday, a third party recruiter contacted me for a job at Adobe (Fullstack + Gen AI.) and told me that there was a drive on wednesday and asked if I would be able to show up. It's a 5-6 hour bus drive for me and I figured I would take a couple of days of leave at work, go to Noida on Tuesday stay a night there and then go for the interview so I said yes.
On Monday, I called her to confirm and she said I had not been shortlisted yet and would confirm the status by the end of the day. Later that day, I call her 5-6 times and she doesn't pick up any calls and replies on Tuesday at 6 p.m. telling me to show up for the interview. I ask her again if I had been shortlisted and she said the hiring manager still hasn't confirmed. I tell her I can't take a leave from work at the last minute, spend money and energy to travel on a "maybe".
She says I should have said that earlier so she could have found someone else and I said "tell the hiring manager to respond sooner than the last day" and that "I would have told her on Monday that I wouldn't be able to make it had she picked up my calls".
So, I am just wondering if I was being unreasonable needing an explicit confirmation of an interview. And if they'll blacklist me and can they influence other recruitment agencies to