Wasted 2 hours commute and and an hour and half group interview for a job that pays min wage.

I am looking for a second job and applied for a catering job at this venue. I already work for a hotel and my resume has banquet work at a Marriott and other similar places. This venue contacted me immediately for an interview and had nothing else to do, so I decided to go.

Upon my arrival, I see it is a group interview that I wasnt told about on Indeed. 1 main manager and 2 assistants. We were 5 people. Two of the candidates were 17, no job yet and I found it ironic because the venue asked for 2 years of experience. The other 2 people barely had much of experience, just slight. It was a silly long group interview and we had to share facts about ourselves, had to write some situational questions on safety and then we had to do some group exercises. One was a broken phone exercise and the other one was to gather in a line with our birth months from January to December.

Now, I am confident with my catering experience, I have done everything and worked harder events than what they had. What pisses me off is that I got a rejection email so quickly. I don't think I would accept the job, it was too far and also I didn't tell them and just gave full availability but it hurt my ego. Will be so surprised if they selected the HS students.

On further note, the job paid min wage + tips which I assume a gra​tuity thats probably not much. Like, what kind of expectations these employers have? Is it intimidating to them to hire someone with solid experience? I am getting rejection after rejection and I realized I had more offers when I sounded less experienced. ​​

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