Valeo interview questions

Applied through career fair. Was scheduled for an interview in Nov 2016 at Greensburg, IN. The recruiter handling my interview made a mistake and scheduled the interview an hour ahead of the scheduled time. Luckily, I reached an hour early and so, made it in time. The recruiter told me the interview was scheduled early because of the daylight savings! (12 PM of a Friday will not change because of daylight savings time shift). The interview was a panel interview with 2 Hiring Managers, 1 HR Manager and the recruiter. The interview was easy, went quite well and I was made a verbal offer at the end of the plant tour following the interview. I was asked to inform them of the joining date for the offer letter. I e-mailed the recruiter my joining date the following week. There was no response, even after multiple follow ups via e-mail, unreturned phone calls. I was asked to e-mail the HR manager. I did that 5 times. In Jan 2017, almost 2 months after my interview, I got a reply saying that there were funding issues and that they cannot hire me.

Takes forever. Basic questions. Strengths weaknesses. Star type answers sought. Generally the person is highlighted before the interviews happen so mostly people know who has it. As its not a transparent system and the rules changes to suit. Eg length of service is used as an excuse not to interview from within and sometimes its ignored or the recruitment process is delayed by weeks so length of service is attained.(this happened once at least that I am aware of)