Paramount Manager interview questions

This was by far the worst and probably most illegal interview I have had. I was scheduled to meet with a VP for a manager role about two weeks in advance. The VP showed up several minutes late for the call. The first thing she says is that she has been busy and didn't look at my resume beforehand, but she'll look now. She tells me that they have a strong internal candidate but want to interview external candidates for full coverage. The VP asked me why I wanted to work there and I responded for about a minute. She then said that a "work fire" came up and said she had to end the interview less than 5 minutes into it. I never received an invite to continue. I suspect this was a sham interview to meet the legal requirements before hiring their internal candidate.

Was approached by recruiter on Linked In, then had a 15 minute screening call with a recruiter followed by 1 hr long video call interview with department head. Process took only about a week.