I'm moving to Germany in July and will be doing a internship at Telekom Deutschland (which is the original "T-Mobile"). I applied here because I knew I could get an interview. I was curious about the company. There is only one interviewer you will meet with and I will describe my experience with her below; I've previously worked for Apple Inc. (which is the hardest company to be employed by, NOT t-mobile) as a manager and trainer - but as the interviewer will tell you; she doesn't care. Oh except she does because she can only base your skills off of your previous experience. It was all quite confusing. She asked about my previous experience, then said she didn't even care and acted as if it was trivial. Her attitude was "no company is better than T-Mobile" - obviously struck a nerve when I told her I worked for Apple Inc. The interviewer is pretentious beyond pretentious. I didn't take the interview seriously as soon as I sat down because her attitude problem immediately became apparent. She didn't know that, however, because I actually know how to conduct myself in a believable manner while remaining professional. She simply couldn't stop talking about T-Mobile. "What a great company it is" "we have the best benefits in the city!" "It is very hard to get employed here, I'm just being honest" "Some people just don't fit in here. Our community is very particular" - some of her verbatim quotes, very unprofessional and were stated in a threatening tone. Next was her very odd, threatening interviewing technique. She would ask a question, then become confused at my responses, and ask for further clarification even though I could clearly tell she understand what I meant. She did this every. single. time. Not efficient and very standoffish - doesn't provide a good first impression for future employees. Her facial expressions are also fake. She said she has been with T-Mobile since 2001 and I think I understand why - she can't become employed anywhere else! Her official title is "Coach" - not a lot of progress for being with a company for over 17 years, is it? Continuing on; I was told that they actually wanted to hire people without previous call center or customer service experience, which for those of you who don't have managerial or onboarding experience, means they want to hire "sheep". The environment is proclaimed as ultra casual to get you to think it is a "cool" and "hip" place to work but they obviously have a strict code of conduct beneath it. They say "Jump" and you jump, basically. If you aren't prepared to make T-Mobile your life you shouldn't apply here. Promotion opportunity is not good. Was advised that they "promote from within" but when I got home I saw almost all of their internal positions posted online. Also was told that you must work for the company for at least 3 years if you want to be promoted. Verbatim "A lot of companies (Implied: like Apple) promote within 6 months and that just doesn't happen here." Laughable, to say the least. The start dates are spaced to start 30 to 60 days from the initial interview. If they don't ask you to do a mock call during the interview then you didn't get the job. They won't send you a "sorry but you weren't selected" email until a few days later in order to feign actual consideration. Nothing else I can say about it; the worst I've ever experienced. Very odd, twilight zone experience. I've never been to such a pretentious interview (and I've worked for Apple!) where the interviewer openly attacked other companies I've worked for and also acted like my accomplishments were intrinsically worthless. Hopefully things are better managed in Germany. 0/10 would not interview again.