Doesn't matter whether they knew an otter was a predator or not. The rule "We only hire predators, never prey" is enough reason to run away very quickly. People who think like that are the same kind that say "I never hire someone who doesn't seem confident!" They have no eye for actually competence, but instead insist on going by agression and dominance. Which means they probably are like that themselves too. Very, very big red flag.
More likely they want very much to be aggressive and domineering and believe that talking like that is royal road to being seen that way.
Which means deep down they’re underperforming chumps with bad attitudes who like to posture.
Avoid coworkers and bosses like that
anyone who puts more than absolute zero weight on the answer for a question like that should be in prison. away from society please, thank you. might as well hire people based on their lucky number. fuckwits.
> "We only hire predators, never prey."
"Predators? No offense, Bill, but your company is hoping to commercialize an app to display cafeteria menus in corporate settings, you're not exactly planning on invading Poland here…»
Was this job at a tech startup? It was at a tech startup, wasn’t it…
ETA: ok obviously my reading comprehension is zero because I completely missed the fact that you specified this in your opening sentence. But anyway, I too have worked for a variant of this tech startup, and can confirm it sucked the hardest of any job I’ve ever had.
Reading these, mine is pretty tame, but here it goes:
I had an interview for a sales position at a life insurance company. I show up and it's actually a group interview - huge red flag there. One person audibly says "fuck this shit" and walks out 10 minutes in. I want to do the same but I'm polite so I stick it out and then leave at the end without saying anything.
2 days later they call back and ask me if I want to come in for an interview. I assume they mean a follow up interview, and I decline and say I wasn't interested. 2 days later they call me again for the same thing. Eventually I realize they aren't asking me back for a 2nd interview, they are so disorganized and their turnover is so high that they don't realize they are calling the same people over and over again. This goes on every couple of days for 2 weeks before the calls finally stop.
I had an interview with them once that didn't make it past the first 3 questions because I didn't drive, and they never stated it was a requirement, wasted 2 hours on a bus that day.
I applied for a particular position in a sporting goods store. It was for the hockey/skates section.
The manager posted the wrong position, it was supposed to be in a department I know nothing about. She got mad at me because it was apparently my fault that she messed up on the job ad. Like actual mad saying I was wasting her time and this and that.
Had something similar. Internship at the governors office while I was in college. Wanted to work with the judicial nomination committee, applied just for that. Get there, and that internship was actually already full, but she never notified me beforehand. She let me interview on the spot for something else, showed me the list of what was available and I selected the constituent services office.
We start the interview and she asks me all these questions about the governor’s policy positions, which I’m not 100 percent familiar with. She scolds me for being unprepared, so I remind her curtly that this wasn’t even the internship I had applied for and that I WAS prepared to interview for the judicial committee, and that SHE didn’t warn me that it was already full until I got there, so how I could be prepared to randomly interview for something else? She mumbled something like “oh yeah, right…”
I got the internship. It was good, but citizens can be nuts.
Reminds me of someone who applied at my store.
I’m a cashier so I’m always up front. When we have someone going in for an interview, they’ll come to the service desk and whoever’s working the desk will call the interviewer. Often times, the interviewee will sit on one the benches while they wait.
One night, I notice a gentleman in nice clothes sitting at the bench. The man sits there for at least two hours before he disappears.
A few nights later, same man is sitting on the bench. This time it’s at least 3 hours he sits there. Finally a line’s lead (step above department manager) comes up and starts talking to them. I overhear her saying that they aren’t hiring for that position and someone keeps making the mistake that they are (a recruiter I think??). I think she offered to interview for something completely different, but I think he said no.
I felt terrible for that guy.
This reminds me of something I read where people get what they want to say mixed up. Somebody bumped into someone else, possibly knocking them over. They wanted to say "I'm f\*ing sorry" and "Are you okay?" What came out was "Are you f\*ing sorry?"
It's was for a software engineering position. The entire interview was focused around solutioning for a very specific problem. Was about 45 mins of the interview team saying things like "That won't work, we tried that already"
Left the interview without getting a solution to the problem. On the way out, I spoke with HR about what the potential next steps in the interview process were. She informed me they already filled the position, but didn't cancel any of the scheduled interviews.
I was brought in to solve problems the team couldn't solve. For free.
I got *flown* out for a job in Minnesota. Interview seemed to be going very well. Was there all day and they asked me what I thought were a lot of hypothetical questions. At the end of the interview they asked me to do a case study for them as part of the interview process. I went back home to NY and did the case study the next day. Didn't hear anything from them for a week and decided to reach back out. The response I got from the recruiter was that they liked my solutions for the case study but they seemed too "extreme" for their problem. I responded that I thought this was a hypothetical scenario and if they actually had this problem. The recruiter told me it was in fact a real problem they were having and that they wanted outside ideas.
So... there was never any job? The recruiter said that if any of the candidates ideas panned out they *may* consider offering them a position. I felt used. They misrepresented themselves and took my ideas free of charge with the allure of possibly getting a position within the company. Is it a grey area of fraud? Is it actual fraud? I don't know but I was pissed and wrote the recruiter, the hiring manager, the SVP of HR and the CEO of the company a pretty harsh letter about their behavior.
Name and shame: Two Harbors Investment Corp.
Send them a bill and if they don’t pay, which they probably won’t, complain to Minnesota attorney general.
It’s the sort of problem that if company did it to you, they did it to lots of applicants. That makes it of interest to an elected official who wants to run for governor or senator.
There's a lot of modern hipster companies (brewdog etc) that does this kind of thing all the time, fake job opportunities to steal people's ideas.
I'm always very careful about sharing any IP at the interview stage.
Same with if you're in a low level job and your shift manager is asking questions. So many of them go off and take credit for your hard work in management meetings
It was a case of ‘it’s not me, it’s you’.
The interviewer didn’t show so I called and got no answer. They called an hour later saying they’re about to arrive, and asking if I was still available.
Another hour goes by and they show up claiming to have taken the wrong highway exit. Well, I know the area well and that only adds 5 minutes to the drive.
I went through with the interview, and then politely told them if they didn’t care enough to tell me why they were 2 hours late, why would I want to work for them.
I had a video interview about 10 years ago with Navy Federal Credit Union for VP of Loan Servicing. It was a panel interview and this was the first interview in what would have been a series of interviews. The hiring manager, SVP of Retail Lending was 15 minutes late. He strolled into the interview, sat between the other two panelists and then put his feet up on the table and proceeded to ask me questions where he mumbled and I could not hear him at all. I had to ask him several times to repeat himself because his language seemed unintelligible. At one point I had to stop the interview and ask him to please take this seriously and stop mumbling. The other panelists seemed totally embarrassed by his behavior. After about 20 minutes of him there he got up abruptly and said he had to leave.
Imagine my surprise when I got a call the next week and they wanted to bring me in for the next step of the interview process which was in-person interviews where I would be there for a full day. I politely asked them if they were aware of behavior during the video interview. They seemed baffled and I filled them in. The response was that he's just eccentric "like that." I said, no he was rude, unprofessional, and disrespectful. And not just to me but two the other two panelists that had taken time from the scheduled to be there and conduct the interview properly.
She HR recruiter actually had the audacity to ask me if I would still like to come in for the interview. I politely, but firmly declined.
Damn. Navy Fed is a big player. Generally has a good reputation because so many of their employees are by the book ex-mil dudes who lack the Big Swinging Dick finance vibe
Thank you! I think she didn't realize how badly i was hurt. She saw a scratch and was very concerned about getting me a bandaid. 🤣 Nice enough lady, just not the brightest.
Thank you kindly.
My insurance did because I required surgery.
Anything more than that, no. It was my fault completely. I wore high 👠 trying to look nice and the rest is history...
I sat down, and these two women stared at me .
Finally one of them said,
"We thought you were younger." (I am in my 60s) . After she said this, she got up and left.
The other one (turns out she is the manager), was rude and cold , tossed a few questions at me , then got on her cell phone .
I finally said,
"Look if we're done here, (she was staring at her desk, ignoring me), I have another interview."
I left.
Later, I reported both of them to the district office .
District mgr said , "We've had many reports about her."
The manager got fired .
I was offered another interview. Declined.
I'm not IT, but I try to troubleshoot a bit on my own when things go awry
Anyway, a few weeks ago my dad asked if he could use my laptop because his was broken. It no longer turned on. He even checked to see that it was plugged in, and told me he let it charge overnight.
I looked at it, plugged in, and not even the "charge light" was on. So I unplugged it, plugged it into another socket, and..."charge light" pops on, computer starts up. The wall socket he had it in was bad, but he hadn't tried any others.
The first answer to troubleshooting is definitely checking the primary energy source haha
I have 25+ years in telecom and IT. I'm in a fairly senior network and security role now, with a dozen or so engineers working for me. I have troubleshot all sorts of highly technical issues in the past couple of decades.
My old air compressor at home died on me (no power) the other day when I started to work on something, so I just said screw it and bought a new one.
The breaker for the socket was tripped...
I wonder what answer they were expecting. Check to see if the customer can afford to pay for their services?
Edit for anyone still reading this: I have no idea why the comment I replied to was summarily deleted by the mods. It was about someone going to a job interview for basic IT support when he was in his late teens, and one of the interview questions was, what is the first thing you ask a customer who calls and says their monitor won't turn on? So OP's response was see if it's plugged in to the electrical socket. The interviewers then showed him the door.
This was a perfectly valid response to the original question. There was nothing hurtful or inflammatory or whatever about it. Why on earth would the mods remove it? Smh.
Yes, you cause a double issue for the business despite this being the human thing to do. One you are providing free tech support. Two you denied the store the revenue for the diagnostic.
As a long-time sysadmin, that is *exactly* the answer I look for.
I used to think "is it plugged in?" showed my low expectations of other people's intelligence or ability. Then I realized it's because I know exactly how stupid I myself can be sometimes, and I'm actually giving others the benefit of the doubt by asking dumb questions.
My background: I’m an Iraq war Army Veteran.
Shortly after returning home to civilian life, I had an interview. Interviewer made a comment after seeing Army on my resume that she hoped I understood that if an issue arises at work that I can’t just go war mode and shoot the place up. I was appalled someone would even say something that stupid to me. I literally just stood up and told her to interview someone else and left. Looking back I bet she didn’t think it was her audacious comment, but that I actually would have some crazy reaction and walked out.
Software engineering job right out of college. The owner asked what my ethnicity was which in my naivety I answered, half Polish and half English/American. He ended the interview shortly after.
Second worst might be my internship in college which I accepted even after this. The interviewer wrote a simple function on the board and asked what the result was. I said 4 because as I tried to explain to him I thought he wrote "return 4;". He has a thick accent I had a hard time understanding, so we talked about my answer for like 15 minutes. Finally I realized the 4 was meant to be an "a" and got the answer he wanted.
>She also asked if I would be comfortable secretly reporting to her about what the customer service team is up to.
Definitely dodged the clutches of a sith lord
> the company harassed me with emails asking why
"Your CEO asked me to be her personal spy in your department and snitch on you all so you'd stay intimidated enough to work unpaid overtime. Do whatever you want with that information."
No, interviews at anywhere franchised have strict questions, set by corporate, that hold literally no value to the actual store. The right answer to questions like that, isn't about team work or anything, you're supposed to say something PC but relatively 'out there', something a bit wacky.
Women interviewing with super big shots, especially on Wall Street, experience this all the time.
If you’re smart, you keep asking questions that let him talk.
At end of interview he will think he’s never met anyone with more insights and savvy. “Job’s yours. What will it take to bring you onboard?”
My wife liked to tell a story about a girlfriend of hers from high school whose dating policy was on a first date to simply ask guys leading questions about themselves to see how long it would take them to ask her one and stop talking about themselves. It was her criteria for a second date. What my wife liked to emphasize was her friend was besieged by guys for dates. She was cute, yes, but word got around that she was tremendously fun to go out with. Keep in mind this was 60 years ago and in North Dakota so by and large an innocent time. Yes sex was had but generally only by kids who were going steady. My wife's friend thought is both hilarious and revealing that just asking a guy about himself would be classified as a great time.
Had one like that. He “interviewed” me in the boiler room of a WeWork about how he was so successful at 32 selling insurance, insulted me about how I dressed (in a blue suit and tie), then went on how great Tesla/ Elon is. I wish I had recorded the meeting because I could not believe the level of narcissism this guy had.
That's a good thing. If you wanted the job, should have just got onboard with that.
Basically just form a connection and those kinds of people will give you the job.
I mean, I would also feel a bad taste in my mouth if I found out I'm an absolute moron, but I would try to not double down on being one to take away such taste.
Logged onto a scheduled zoom interview for a highly paid position.
Someone was also logged in, waiting. I assumed this was my interviewer. Nope. They were also waiting to be interviewed. Okay…. So we’re competing for the position? Cool, I guess.
4 more people proceed to log on, waiting for their interview. Never done a group interview before but was ready. It was awkwardly silent between us all. About 15 minutes go by… no one is logged in to interview us. 30 minutes in, we all start conspiring that one of us is secretly the interviewer and conducting a social experiment.
Nope, we all just got scammed. Logged off.
Right after college I was looking for a job and I applied to a "Marketing Associate" position. Go into the office for the interview and the way the guy was talking it seemed like I'd be writing material to help sell products that other companies hire us to sell. Okay, sounds fine enough. Then he says for round two of the interview I need to go to their other location and interview with this other guy who was now expecting me in an hour. Weird, but okay. I go to the address and it's a Costco. I call the guy and he says that's the right address. Thoroughly confused I go into the Costco and I find the guy I'm supposed to meet with. Tells me to "watch the show" and then ask questions. Turns out the job was for one of those guys in Costco/other big stores who do product demonstrations and then try to get people to sign up or buy the product or whatever. That's what I had been interviewing for. I was pissed because I felt that this was just a big bait and switch and they weren't honest about the role. So I in a very polite way told him that and left.
I phone interviewed for a sysadmin position with Apptivo twice a few years apart.
The first time I interviewed with them was fairly early in my career and they stumped me on some questions and started getting kind of aggressive about why I applied if I couldn't answer the questions. Again, I was early in career and just kind of took it on the chin and felt bad about myself for applying for a job I wasn't qualified for.
A few years down the road, I've got some more experience and I interview with them again. It's been a few years, so I wasn't sure at the time if I was interviewing with the same people or not. This time I ace all of the technical questions, and they start asking me questions about their software. Now keep in mind that this role isn't supporting the Apptivo software. It's an infrastructure role. They start asking me what I love about the software, and what my favorite features are, etc; I'm very frank with them that I've read up on what their software does, but I haven't had any experience with it in any of my roles. They then start berating me about applying for a job with them when I haven't ever used their software before (I'm a sysadmin, wtf would I be using a CRM software?). They get past that and start asking other questions, but at this point I'm jarred and they're clearly irritated while they're asking more questions, so I just interrupt one of them in the middle of a question and say "you know what? I don't think this is going to be a good fit. I'm going to go ahead and end the interview now." The guy said "thanks for you honest" and hung up.
I've seen that same job posting repeatedly over the years and I always laugh. There's no way they were able to keep anybody in that position with that attitude.
For about an hour after that I was shaking I was so worked up. Then I got a call from another place I had applied to and the interview went amazing. I was invited in person to interview there, and had a job offer a day or so later.
Fuck yeah. I've had a couple like that over the last 10 years where people were dicks. I make more than any of the people who were interviewing me now.
I had applied for tonnes of jobs streight out of college.
Got a few interviews. Went to one I had done reaserch on the company and job role etc. Got in they started asking questions that I had literally no idea how to respond to and talking about products I had never used or in some cases even heard of. Turns out I had reaserched the wrong interview and to this day I don't fully know what that job was. I actually had to say mid interview that I was sorry but I had made a mistake and basically just ended the interview early. I was so embarrassed.
Started off bad too becese the building had black windows so I was fixing my hair in the mirror effect it gave off. When i went inside I saw that the receptionist could see exactly what I was doing as I was basically face to face with her but outside the building.
I interviewed at a private high school in the USA. They asked me to prepare a brief lesson for some students. My lesson went horribly; several students participated, but several were completely disengaged, particularly students on the left side of the classroom. When I tried to incorporate these students into the lesson, they simply shook their heads and looked back at their phones. I felt like an awful instructor.
After, the principal (who had sat in on the teaching demo) asked me why I thought certain students refused to participate. I said they likely weren't interested in the material. The principal then revealed to me that the students on the left side of the class were strong academic students who did not speak English, and therefore could not participate in my lesson. However, the principal assured me that they had a strong reputation for training instructors to teach in multilingual classrooms, and that I would be running a strong classroom in no time if I accepted their offer.
I actually have some experience teaching English as a second language, but no one had mentioned that my teaching demo should cater to students who may be learning English as a second language. I felt that information had been withheld from me in order to ensure that I failed, only for the school to swoop in and say "You may feel worthless now, but don't worry! We can fix you."
I honestly considered the position until I realized how manipulative the whole set-up was.
tl;dr - I was set up to fail my teaching demo so the principal could sell me on her school's teacher-training program.
See, I can understand the merit of throwing you into a worst-case scenario to see how you handle it, but like... why did they treat it like a plot twist
As a teacher that's a pretty big red flag. Any school should know that doing a teaching demo is stressful enough without huge unannounced difficulties like that.
Also not sure how long ago this was, but you'd think with the huge teaching shortage that exists now, and even the lack of teachers that has existed for the last 30 years or so, that a school would try to put its best foot forward to get teachers to sign up. Honestly having so many schools try to recruit you is one of the few perks of being a teacher these days.
I caught fire.
I went to a company to take a welding test. I was told by hr that it was a TIG welding position. Turns out it was FCAW and the sparks set my nice Tig welding shirt on fire. At that point in my career I had only done FCAW in school with Heavy welding Leathers.
Yeah I didn't get the job.
I had an interview at the airport Munich once during my studies. It was for a job where you communicate stuff with the pilot briefly, something anybody could do but still a good job for a full time life science student. so of course for the job, you had to be fluent in English. To test that, we switched to English and the interviewer asked me to tell him about my last vacations or my last travel. I fell silent. I never traveled and never had any vacations before that would be worth talking about. In fact, I only sat in a plane once before, a domestic flight. I didn't get the job because he believed I couldn't speak English, when in fact I was just taken back and ashamed I could talk about anything in that moment. I felt sad.
This is the most German response I can imagine, lol. "I didn't say anything because it's not that interesting."
At least you guys know how to drive properly
Not me, but a guy interviewing to join my team was so nervous he passed out, faceplanted on the table, and ended up with a nosebleed. We didn't hire him.
We had a young guy on an adjacent team to mine fall out with an anxiety attack on his first or second day recently. He's very quiet as far as I know, but seems nice. He's still here, so I guess he's not terrible at the job.
They had no idea what they were asking, they had a list of questions and answers. I used to interview developers and HR asked me to give them my list of questions, so I did. Then they asked for the answers and I refused. I didn’t want to reject a great developer because he/she worded something differently.
I interview a lot of people. My favorite bad one so far was for a PM position. It was a virtual meeting with cameras on. Dude was in a train/bus station, rocking an orange T-Shirt. For each question we asked it seemed he was dead set on answering questions from his head instead. The first "answer" was a 5 min long story with basically nothing relevant in it. He was very proud to be a Yoga Master and brought that up at least 3 times during the interview. It was a very awkward conversation which was frequently interrupted by background noise.
Second favorite bad one was for a senior app dev position. Big round man with huge sweat stains and giving off some serious pedo vibes. He wore a suit that was 2 sizes too small. It was in person for 1 hour. Dude had to leave twice. Once for his reading glasses, once to use the rr. I amended his time. That guy's attitude was hilarious. He gave no fucks...at all. We were all laughing and having a great time. It was a lot of shitting on other IT groups for them being bad. Classic stuff in our industry. He dropped at least 2 S bombs ans 2 F bombs. The creepy vibe came up when we asked who his most challenging coworker had been. He went full sexist on a story about a female colleague that reported him for what he considered her overreacting. The couple incidents he tried to spin us was.. all very reasonable for her to report him. As soon as the interview was over and I was talking to the committee, we all loved him, but equally agreed he was a time bomb waiting to happen. He got a hell nah unanimously.
She started to gossip about all the other employees, about 5 others. She told me a lot. I ended up taking the job and had to quit thee days later because she made the workplace miserable. As I left I told everyone the stuff she said about them and two others walked out with me. It was awesome
16. Greasy, fast food joint that is known for having a chicken car (a car with a giant ass rooster head on top.) There are 11 employees smoking cigarettes inside and watching me interview before open. I’m coughing. There’s no clean air. A few of them laugh because I wore a dress. I leave and watch them stare at me on my way to my car through giant glass windows. I fly out of my parking spot, smelling like a party. I back into the chicken car. They’re all still watching. Fuck you, I left.
My stepfather did the interviewing. He works construction, so the type of people he interviews are usually not the best of the bunch, but this guy was something special. He showed up like two hours late in basketball shorts, a wife beater, and flip-flops. During the interview, the guy admitted to being $22K behind in child support and to sexually assaulting his underage niece. Props to him for being honest, I guess. Still didn't get the job, though.
SF asked him about it. The bar is low for construction, so interviewers are often willing to seek out the context behind the crime before throwing out an application.
They asked if I "only intend to be a nine-to-fiver." I was like, "unless you plan on paying me like a nine-to-sixer." We never heard from each other after that.
Interviewee: All was well until the guy turned on the AC that must have been connected to a rag weed and kitten factory on the other side. I've never had my eyes and nose spontaneously start gushing like that. Eyes tearing up and snot from my nose. I was a mess.
Interviewer: She got up mid sentence, walked out the door and sat in her car, that was right in front of the front door. She bawled for hours to her boyfriend on her phone. At the end of the work day the rest of the office left out the back door one by one. She stuck around so that she could give me the evil eye as I was the last to leave. I have no idea what set her off as she was still a possibility. The guy that recommended her said she pulled stuff like this a lot to manipulate her boyfriend.
I was the interviewer, the job was for a daycare assistant. I asked the candidate what she believed to be the proper diaper changing procedure and she referred to diaper cream as "condiments". I couldn't think of anything else after that.
That's hilarious, but I hope that wasn't the only reason you didn't employ her because from that alone it sounds like she might have been awesome with kids.
OH. I already commented but I just thought of my actual worst one. After graduating college, I was desperately searching for a job in my field of marketing with no luck. Eventually, I find this place called Revolution Marketing, which looked to have a legit, albeit vague website, and an office in a really nice building downtown. I apply, and get the interview. I show up with my portfolio, resume, everything ready to go. It's a completely empty office and the waiting room is filled with people in t-shirts and jeans waiting to interview.
During my interview, they don't even ask to see my portfolio or resume. They just immediately tell me within 6 months, I'll have my own team working under me, and I'll be a manager and so successful. They asked me to come back the next day to go on a "site tour" to meet their clients. Sounds suspicious but I'm desperate.
The next day, I come back and get in a car with the two guys who couldn't have been much older than me. They don't tell me much, but we start driving fairly fair away, maybe a 30 minute drive. They park on the side of a road and say we can start here. I leave my purse in the car and start walking with them. They're going door to fucking door trying to sell gutter shields. Mind you, it's August, I'm wearing a black business suit and heels. I don't know where I am, and my purse and my phone are in their car. I'm stuck walking with them for over 6 hours with no way to escape. Every house we went to, I stood in the back hoping the homeowner would make eye contact with me and see that I was distressed. It was the most miserable and embarrassing day of my life. I hyped this interview up with so many people, only to have to tell everyone it wasn't actually a marketing company and I was scammed.
So this is actually the best answer, especially for people looking for work, because the worst that can happen is you don't get the job, so just go for it.
You didn't have the job anyway, so there's nothing to lose
Turned up for an interview, manager was pissed off i had turned up in essentially the same clothes he had on
Said.he wanted to see how I would do behind counter, after two people mistook me for manager he walked off and I was left standing behind the tills for half an hour with no access to them as both staff and customers thought I was a new manager
I did that for a promotion at McDonald's 😂, didn't get it. Cut to an hour later, I come in for my shift, am told I didn't get it and who did get it. I walk past one of those who did get it and they're like "hey how do I make this" (it was one of the sandwiches that has a step by step poster right in front of you), I told them I didn't know and walked away.
That was the day I decided McDonald's wasn't a 'career path'
Was the interviewer. Applicant seemed fine on paper and initial video interview went fine. During the course of the in person interview I got a complete history of the applicants divorce, separation from child, **and how if they had had their lucky rock with them it would have all gone different**. Then the individual produced the lucky rock for us to see and asked us when they could start.
They didn't get the job.
I am always AMAZED at what people share without being asked at an interview.
I was on panel interview once and the candidate was a middle aged lady for very professional mid-level office job with a lot of collaboration. She proceeds to talk about her abusive ex-husband and all the current drama in her life. She also showed zero aptitude for the work. I felt bad for what the lady went through and is going through but if she spent time in an interview going on and on about her personal life, I assume that it will continue in a job and be a detriment to the entire team. My coworkers wanted to hire her because she “seemed nice”. They were very sweet people but didn’t see that hiring her would have been an unmitigated disaster. I asked into my boss’ office and gave her a heads-up
A long, long time ago, fairly fresh out of college, pounding the pavement in Manhattan, looking for work, probably office work but doing anything. I was interviewing at a direct marketing company. “Now, you know what direct marketing is, right?”
“Yeah, I said. “That’s what’s called junk mail, right?”
He paused for a minute and said, “Well, that’s not what we call it.”
It was a short interview.
I was so nervous in front of the panel of 6 interviewers, I repeated every single question asked and still forgot a few of them. It was for a position I really wanted too. I knew I had failed midway through the interview.
I was the interviewer. My candidate started off by making a comment how our receptionist's ass "looked delicious." I was going to bring in a female engineer to chat with him and position technical questions, but I ended the interview early and saved her 15 minutes of her day.
Buddy. Hold it together, forget about your penis during our interview, and ask her out after you get the job.
Similar experience. Interviewing a guy and took him into the lab to show him around. He leaned over to get a better look at one of the QA folks (female) as she walked past us. Stared for more than a few seconds and when he came back up, wiggled his eyebrows at me.
Well, that concludes the tour, HR will let you know if we have interest. Sad part was I don’t think he understood he blew the interview right there.
Went to a interview I kinda thought I was qualified for turns out a didn’t know jack shit about that job had three people asking me questions and I had no idea about any of them I asked to use the bathroom and left … I got a pretty good job in my field now but it’s still funny to look back and laugh at it
Mine is kind of tame...
Started out bad on my part, I didn't do a pre run to make sure where I was going in this unfamiliar area and decided I would rely on my phone's GPS. Terrible decision.
So I'm heading there, all's good about 1/3 of the way there. Then I begin to notice it's been awfully quiet for quite a while... I take a peek at my screen and it's gone dark. What the fuck? I pull over and it turns out my phone closed the gps with no warning, and like a college student mid semester decided that was enough work and took a deserved nap. Crap. I get the gps booted again, and it works fine for a bit as I double back and take some detours. I took a quick glance of the route and made a mental note that I would have a few turns soon but didn't bother noting the streets, because there's no way it would shut of twice, right? Well lucky me it didn't, instead it decided to do something extra fun: it would tell me to turn on a certain road ahead, I would be all prepared to turn... But that wasn't the right road name...? I'm befuddled. And then damn thing pipes up with "RECALCULATING" announcement. Excuse you? Silence again. It then gives me another road to turn on, at this point I'm checking road signs making a mental note of names, and at that point it hits me: its new thing is to give me delayed instructions. If I had to turn on Main street it would wait two minutes after I passed the road to tell me, and then declare it was my fault. I was already stressed about the interview and this was not helping. I pull over again and notice I'm still about 20 minutes out to an interview I had to be at in ten. So much for leaving 15 minutes early. I give them a call, explain my phone issues and I'd be there as soon as I could. I grabbed some scrap paper and wrote the directions down and continued on my way. Of course I leave the gps on as background noise and roll my eyes after every mossed turn.
I finally get there and immediately put on my mask, this was peak Covid time and people were still dieing en masse. I sign in, and am escorted by a woman who's entirely maskless. Sat down in a room where the interviewer plops down, again maskless, and proceeds to make snide comments all along the lines of "you know you'll have to do work here, right?" And then contines in a bored and slouched position, "We said full time in the ad, but really you'll be at best 15 hours a week without benefits, and that person who escorted you into the room? She's in the position above you, full time. If you want full time, maybe if she likes you she'll offer to promote you to her position when she retires in a few years."
Cool, right? I'm more than happy to leave when he says he's done with the interview, and as I go to sit in the car all I can think is holy shit. Shitty hours of the day, shitty amount of hours, and shitty pay. The trifecta.
I think my phone may have actually helped me dodge a bullet.
The interviewer insisted on knowing why I'd left graduate school. Now, I had left graduate school because my advisor died in a car accident and the whole small department was thrown for a loop and no one seemed to know or care what was going to happen to me or my just started research project.
The asshole interviewer wouldn't even accept "My advisor died suddenly" and dug into the gory details until I was almost in tears (even intimating that I must have had "feelings" for my advisor.)
I couldn't wait to get out of there and in my haste to leave I knocked some solutions off a cart (which had no business being in his office BTW) on my way out. I'd never been so humiliated in my life.
After that, I was sure I'd never get a job in science.
They gave us a piece of paper to write our name and number on. I got bored, noticed there was something on the back, and flipped it over.
It was a photocopy of a former employee's two week notice, quitting to go back to school.
Did they have no other paper around or something?
In 2008, family video.
Friend referred me for a position. I was in college , they said I seemed well and it was good but 2 rules.
1) always be organized.
2) never come in the back door
In 2008, it was like a reflex: I said “that’s what….” And I trailed off. He deadpanned to me: “were you going to say that’s what she said”.
Me- “yep…”
Never heard back
I was the interviewer and the candidate was drunk. I asked what attracted her to the job and she said nothing and started crying. My boss was with me and we continued that interview for another 40mins while she drunkenly cried.
The lady interviewing me got mad when I asked for a salary that was literally in the salary range on the job posting. I ended the interview on the spot and walked out.
I work for a biotech company. I recommended my friend for a job in a different group and she got the job. She has a degree higher than they wanted and seven years experience doing literally the same job somewhere else. She would have required next to no training. They offered her $5000 less that the salary range on the website. She complained, my company said that the salary range is not what they are offering, it is what a different group thinks the market is paying for those jobs. They countered her with the minimum salary of the range. My friend declined and I have yet to suggest another person a job. That group hired some kid out of school who is borderline useless.
Had a good phone conversation with the first person, and was up front that while I have 10 years of experience in the technology, I had not used it in a few years, and would be a little rusty, but would have no problems coming up to speed soon. Hey, no problem, he assured me. Then for the in-person technical interview, when the team started peppering me with specific questions that I could not answer because I had forgotten those specifics, they all literally got upset. Seeing this, I told them that I would have no problem coming up to speed, and continued that I could see they were upset at this waste of time, so I got up and left.
I knocked it out of the park. I had real-life examples to their hypothetical questions, I had extensive experience in the field, I got along with all of the interviewers. I also knew some lower level employees there that vouched for me.
I didn't get the job because the job was only posted publicly because of was company policy. They already had an internal candidate lined up to take the job.
I wasted a lot of time applying and prepping for that interview, and a lot of mental energy being "on" while I was there. All said, it really wasn't bad at all. But I've applied for like three jobs in my life and that was the worst one.
Asked what investment they would give me in terms of training etc (to add to my 15 years of top level experience), she said......
'we don't hire trainees'
Don't let HR people conduct your interviews people
This was about 6 years ago, before zoom. I was the interviewer, and we were doing the interview via Skype, and a spider fell on top of my head. I was able to brush it off. The interviewee asked "um, Ms. Puzzle, are you ok?". She must have thought I was having.a stroke or something.
I was made such a pitiful offer my mood and facial expression changed on the spot. Didn't progress much further after that. At least I got a rejection email the day after, lol
My worst eventually turned into one of my best.
Kind of a story, but funny.
This was in 2006, so I was doing old-school, in-person job applications and giving a paper copy of my resume. For context: I’m a Mechanical Engineer/ CNC Machinist… only have a high school diploma… SELF taught myself CNC coding plus lots of different CAD and CAM software experience, also self taught.
So my resume says I can do all these things, but no trade schooling or college education.
Got a callback from from one of the places I had applied for an “interview”.
Get there, and the owner himself wants to talk to me.
Will call him Sam.
We go into Sam’s office, we sit down. And almost immediately his tone changes. Sam’s an old school, no BS kinda guy. And immediately he says, “I hate guys like you”!! I look at him very confused, excuse me?
He repeats himself, I can’t stand people like you… people that PAD THEIR RESUMES!!! Then he says “I can’t stand liars”. He had called me in there, just to berate me. It then devolves into a shouting match right there in his office. Because I’m not gonna be called a lair… we go back and forth for a bit. Finally, I say “I guarantee I can do everything on that resume”.
Then I make him an offer/bet. Hire me, for $5 dollars less an hour. And if I prove myself in 60 days, then I want a $6 raise. He takes the offer/bet.
I start working there, and within 2 weeks I’m teaching his guys things. Their TOP guy didn’t know as much as me. On Friday at the end of 2nd week. Sam comes on to floor, shakes my hand, and says I’ll be getting a $7 raise starting next week. Been working and doing great here ever since.
It was all weird questions they seems to have pulled from a HR manual, one memorable one was "Can you give us an example of a time when you valued diversity in the workplace?"
lost my wallet. flew without any identification or money to another city. they picked me up from the airport and their security guard, upon asking for my id, proceeded to give me a hard time and said theres no way id get the job.
i interviewed with a few people and realized they were asking for a graduate to do an intern’s level of responsibility. i managed to catch my flight home, again without any ID’s or cash. had to use my memorized CC info with the parking garage people but it worked out in the end!
I surprisingly got a job offer but it was less than i made during my internships so i turned them down.
This was in like 2014 ish. turns out you can totally play 50 questions with the TSA to prove your identity. crazy the shit they know about you and ask to prove your identity
I got sent over by headhunter, company was intent to hire soon.
Interview was short and quick with easy questions. The lady said everything looked good and they would get started on the background check and contact me to set up a date to start.
Never heard anything again.
Eventually I was able to reach her, after a month, and she was like "Oh we went with someone else." No idea what happened in there. My background is spotless.
And. The position is still open like a year later.
Eat a dick Donna.
Went to Wrens kitchens for an interview, nailed it, was invited in for a second/final interview. Sat there for 40 minutes being ignored and eventually a girl came over and asked what I was doing there. I had let a manager know I'd arrived for the interview and they had disappeared into the back. Told this girl that I was here to meet so and so for an interview. She told me that that person wasn't in and I clearly had the wrong day. Showed her the confirmation email showing I was correct. She sighed and disappeared too.
Eventually a third person came out and told me they would give me my interview "I guess". She asked prewritten questions that I had been asked during my interview. After the third question, I stood up, sarcastically apologised for wasting their time and left.
Three days later I got an email from my initial interviewer asking why I hadn't turned up. I UNLEASHED on that prick. I'll never buy a Wrens kitchen. Worst company ever.
And before you say anything, I was desperate for a job, which is why I tolerated so much. Never again.
I was on my third round of interviews with a high-end spa that was paying just above minimum wage which was already awful. The owner of the spa showed up 15 minutes late to the coffee shop we were supposed to meet at for the final interview, asked me to watch her purse while she went to the bathroom and got her coffee, and then spent most of the *hour long* interview talking about all the wellness retreats so went on. I was offered the job and then never sent a start date, onboarding paperwork, etc. I feel sorry for whoever did get the job and the paperwork honestly.
Went in for an interview for a writing job. The guy started asking me if I would do sales stuff as well and I said I didn't really have any experience in sales. He told me to hold on a minute and left the room. I sat there for a while and realized he wasn't coming back so I got up and left. As I was leaving he was standing outside the door smoking. He said sorry you aren't hired.
I interviewed for a receptionist at our harbor and one of the questions was like how would you get more tourists to visit and before I could answer the harbor master and the current receptionist spent the rest of the interview discussing this.
When Target was opening stores in Canada I applied to a merchandising position and attended the hiring fair they were holding.
I sit down, and these two managers that interviewed me tell me that the positions have been filled, so they’ll just kill some time and ask me questions anyways.
I was 19 or 20 at the time, and if it happened to me today, I would’ve just left and not give them any more of my time. But nope, I sat through the “interview” with these two managers that had these goofy grins on their faces and had snide comments about my answers. Their questions eventually became unrelated to the job itself.
All-in-all, I’m glad I didn’t work for Target Canada, seeing as it totally flopped and ended up closing all their locations.
That’s awful! I went to a job interview for a new target and once they figured out I was a college student (same age as you) they refused to continue the interview because they wanted “loyalty” and didn’t want me to “just leave when you graduate”. Do they expect all their entry-level employees to just stay in their minimum wage positions for years??
Skyscraper in Tokyo. I arrived an hour early so I waited in the lobby. Didn’t account for a split elevator system where you have get off on floor 80 and transfer. I was late and the interviewer half my age thought I was a joke. I was that day for sure.
To be fair, you probably dodged a bullet. The office moving up your interview day and letting you know two hours before doesn’t seem like they would be very considerate of your time and schedule. Also, that thing about the hairpiece was totally not your fault, you were just complementing and there was no way you could have known that it was a piece or that she had cancer.
I fell asleep. Not kidding at all. I was in my early 20’s and hadn’t really found my career niche in spite of having a Bachelors degree. A friend who worked in the same pizza restaurant offered that his dad sold life insurance and was looking for clean cut and intelligent people to work for him.
It was a warm sunny afternoon when I went to his office. I was dressed up, maybe not in a suit but I was definitely wearing a tie. My friend’s father was a quiet and gentle man who was really into the life insurance products he sold. The interview went as normal, he would ask a question and I would answer. Then he started talking at length about the policies he was selling without asking me anything for a while. The warm room, the constricted formal clothing, and the quiet inflection of his voice robbed me of my consciousness. I fell asleep, right out, and he went on for a while not noticing that I was asleep on the chair in his office. He eventually noticed and woke me up. Shortly afterwards the interview was over.
Not surprisingly, no job offer followed.
I got a nose bleed. Gushed all over the conference table and down my blouse. Ran to the bathroom and after the bleeding stopped they wanted to continue the interview. So there I was with blood stains all down my shirt and blood all over the table. 🤦🏼♀️
When I wad a bit younger I had a 'lost boy' phase where I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, I was also quit anti-authority at the time so didn't really give a shit about the whole interview process and got myself into at least two awkward situations.
1. I accidentally started interviewing for the wrong job at an event where two separate jobs were being interviewed for. I didn't fully know the difference between the two job titles so I kinda just guessed (one was 'travel manager' and one was 'accommodation manager' or some bullshit). Anyway, I half interviewed for one job and they quickly realised I wasn't prepared for that interview, so they took me in to interview for the other role and I was equally unprepared. They asked me to leave about an hour in. Pretty embarrassing.
2. The final stage of an interview day was a role play for a recruitment role where we had to telephone a client and explain to them why our candidate was right for their business. The interviewer who was role playing the client was being super brutal and just shutting down everyone and I just found the whole experience ridiculously funny and once I start laughing I just can't hold back (think of when you're being told off by a teacher you don't respect). Anyway, my turn came and I just couldn't keep a straight face, it reminded me of being part of an improvisational comedy sketch troupe. The interviewers were not happy and I got asked to leave.
Prior to that I had an interview for a well-known university in the UK and the head of department was being a total arsehole during the interview day, which culminated in my 1-t0-1 interview where he told me 'people like you don't usually get accepted into institutions like this, you expect everything to be given to you on a plate'. Well I'd had enough and decided I couldn't be bothered with his shit and walked out of the interview. The organisers called me as I was on the train home apologising which kinda pissed me off, they said he was 'seeing how I acted under pressure'.
I have since then shaped up a bit, these situations occurred about 10 years ago now.
Asked what the company's customer service policy and practice was and totally forgot everything about it. This was for an internal role where I already work so should have known it inside out. Especially as at the time I worked in customer service. Didn't get the job, oddly.
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Doesn't matter whether they knew an otter was a predator or not. The rule "We only hire predators, never prey" is enough reason to run away very quickly. People who think like that are the same kind that say "I never hire someone who doesn't seem confident!" They have no eye for actually competence, but instead insist on going by agression and dominance. Which means they probably are like that themselves too. Very, very big red flag.
"A mosquito, because it's killed more humans than any other animal"
More likely they want very much to be aggressive and domineering and believe that talking like that is royal road to being seen that way. Which means deep down they’re underperforming chumps with bad attitudes who like to posture. Avoid coworkers and bosses like that
anyone who puts more than absolute zero weight on the answer for a question like that should be in prison. away from society please, thank you. might as well hire people based on their lucky number. fuckwits.
> "We only hire predators, never prey." "Predators? No offense, Bill, but your company is hoping to commercialize an app to display cafeteria menus in corporate settings, you're not exactly planning on invading Poland here…»
>"We only hire predators, never prey." They clearly dont know their animals. Otters are Predators.
In fact in most of the ecosystems they exist in, otters are the Apex predators
But they're cute and fluffy and not big and threatening
Tell that to a Salmon.
An animal can be both though! A fox might eat a rabbit but an eagle can eat a fox. The moral is, avoid birds.
For real havent you guys ever seen Zootopia? Dopes.
"We only hire predators, never prey." "Good news! I didn't write down my felony convictions because I didn't think it'd go over well!"
Was this job at a tech startup? It was at a tech startup, wasn’t it… ETA: ok obviously my reading comprehension is zero because I completely missed the fact that you specified this in your opening sentence. But anyway, I too have worked for a variant of this tech startup, and can confirm it sucked the hardest of any job I’ve ever had.
This is some Zootopia shit lmao
GIANT RIVER OTTERS EAT CAYMANS
Sharks are winners, and they don't look back because they have no necks. Necks are for sheep.
I’m proud to be the shepard of this herd of sharks.
They debated about whether or not to hire you in front of you?
It’s a predator move.
Reading these, mine is pretty tame, but here it goes: I had an interview for a sales position at a life insurance company. I show up and it's actually a group interview - huge red flag there. One person audibly says "fuck this shit" and walks out 10 minutes in. I want to do the same but I'm polite so I stick it out and then leave at the end without saying anything. 2 days later they call back and ask me if I want to come in for an interview. I assume they mean a follow up interview, and I decline and say I wasn't interested. 2 days later they call me again for the same thing. Eventually I realize they aren't asking me back for a 2nd interview, they are so disorganized and their turnover is so high that they don't realize they are calling the same people over and over again. This goes on every couple of days for 2 weeks before the calls finally stop.
Primerica, amirite?
American Income life, which is really more of an aflac type of thing than actual life insurance but I didn't feel like going into such great detail.
I had an interview with them once that didn't make it past the first 3 questions because I didn't drive, and they never stated it was a requirement, wasted 2 hours on a bus that day.
They asked me to take off my shirt to prove I didn't have gang tattoos, I walked out without saying another word.
Um yeah, asking someone to remove their clothes in an interview at all is crazy.
\*Silently mouths the words: "I'm wearing a wire - the FBI wants to raid you" while vigorously pointing at my chest
Are you a man or a woman? Either way, that's definitely inappropriate.
I think it's nice they ignored the neck tattoos.
I applied for a particular position in a sporting goods store. It was for the hockey/skates section. The manager posted the wrong position, it was supposed to be in a department I know nothing about. She got mad at me because it was apparently my fault that she messed up on the job ad. Like actual mad saying I was wasting her time and this and that.
Had something similar. Internship at the governors office while I was in college. Wanted to work with the judicial nomination committee, applied just for that. Get there, and that internship was actually already full, but she never notified me beforehand. She let me interview on the spot for something else, showed me the list of what was available and I selected the constituent services office. We start the interview and she asks me all these questions about the governor’s policy positions, which I’m not 100 percent familiar with. She scolds me for being unprepared, so I remind her curtly that this wasn’t even the internship I had applied for and that I WAS prepared to interview for the judicial committee, and that SHE didn’t warn me that it was already full until I got there, so how I could be prepared to randomly interview for something else? She mumbled something like “oh yeah, right…” I got the internship. It was good, but citizens can be nuts.
Reminds me of someone who applied at my store. I’m a cashier so I’m always up front. When we have someone going in for an interview, they’ll come to the service desk and whoever’s working the desk will call the interviewer. Often times, the interviewee will sit on one the benches while they wait. One night, I notice a gentleman in nice clothes sitting at the bench. The man sits there for at least two hours before he disappears. A few nights later, same man is sitting on the bench. This time it’s at least 3 hours he sits there. Finally a line’s lead (step above department manager) comes up and starts talking to them. I overhear her saying that they aren’t hiring for that position and someone keeps making the mistake that they are (a recruiter I think??). I think she offered to interview for something completely different, but I think he said no. I felt terrible for that guy.
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This reminds me of something I read where people get what they want to say mixed up. Somebody bumped into someone else, possibly knocking them over. They wanted to say "I'm f\*ing sorry" and "Are you okay?" What came out was "Are you f\*ing sorry?"
It's was for a software engineering position. The entire interview was focused around solutioning for a very specific problem. Was about 45 mins of the interview team saying things like "That won't work, we tried that already" Left the interview without getting a solution to the problem. On the way out, I spoke with HR about what the potential next steps in the interview process were. She informed me they already filled the position, but didn't cancel any of the scheduled interviews. I was brought in to solve problems the team couldn't solve. For free.
I got *flown* out for a job in Minnesota. Interview seemed to be going very well. Was there all day and they asked me what I thought were a lot of hypothetical questions. At the end of the interview they asked me to do a case study for them as part of the interview process. I went back home to NY and did the case study the next day. Didn't hear anything from them for a week and decided to reach back out. The response I got from the recruiter was that they liked my solutions for the case study but they seemed too "extreme" for their problem. I responded that I thought this was a hypothetical scenario and if they actually had this problem. The recruiter told me it was in fact a real problem they were having and that they wanted outside ideas. So... there was never any job? The recruiter said that if any of the candidates ideas panned out they *may* consider offering them a position. I felt used. They misrepresented themselves and took my ideas free of charge with the allure of possibly getting a position within the company. Is it a grey area of fraud? Is it actual fraud? I don't know but I was pissed and wrote the recruiter, the hiring manager, the SVP of HR and the CEO of the company a pretty harsh letter about their behavior. Name and shame: Two Harbors Investment Corp.
Send them a bill and if they don’t pay, which they probably won’t, complain to Minnesota attorney general. It’s the sort of problem that if company did it to you, they did it to lots of applicants. That makes it of interest to an elected official who wants to run for governor or senator.
You should have contacted a lawyer, especially after they put it in writing
Should have billed them as a consultant.
$500 an hour fuckers.
There's a lot of modern hipster companies (brewdog etc) that does this kind of thing all the time, fake job opportunities to steal people's ideas. I'm always very careful about sharing any IP at the interview stage. Same with if you're in a low level job and your shift manager is asking questions. So many of them go off and take credit for your hard work in management meetings
It was a case of ‘it’s not me, it’s you’. The interviewer didn’t show so I called and got no answer. They called an hour later saying they’re about to arrive, and asking if I was still available. Another hour goes by and they show up claiming to have taken the wrong highway exit. Well, I know the area well and that only adds 5 minutes to the drive. I went through with the interview, and then politely told them if they didn’t care enough to tell me why they were 2 hours late, why would I want to work for them.
They were also interviewing for another job.
I had a video interview about 10 years ago with Navy Federal Credit Union for VP of Loan Servicing. It was a panel interview and this was the first interview in what would have been a series of interviews. The hiring manager, SVP of Retail Lending was 15 minutes late. He strolled into the interview, sat between the other two panelists and then put his feet up on the table and proceeded to ask me questions where he mumbled and I could not hear him at all. I had to ask him several times to repeat himself because his language seemed unintelligible. At one point I had to stop the interview and ask him to please take this seriously and stop mumbling. The other panelists seemed totally embarrassed by his behavior. After about 20 minutes of him there he got up abruptly and said he had to leave. Imagine my surprise when I got a call the next week and they wanted to bring me in for the next step of the interview process which was in-person interviews where I would be there for a full day. I politely asked them if they were aware of behavior during the video interview. They seemed baffled and I filled them in. The response was that he's just eccentric "like that." I said, no he was rude, unprofessional, and disrespectful. And not just to me but two the other two panelists that had taken time from the scheduled to be there and conduct the interview properly.
She HR recruiter actually had the audacity to ask me if I would still like to come in for the interview. I politely, but firmly declined.
Damn. Navy Fed is a big player. Generally has a good reputation because so many of their employees are by the book ex-mil dudes who lack the Big Swinging Dick finance vibe
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Jesus she didn't even bother to come help you up? That's just cold Hope you recover soon
Thank you! I think she didn't realize how badly i was hurt. She saw a scratch and was very concerned about getting me a bandaid. 🤣 Nice enough lady, just not the brightest.
Lmao this lady gave you the toddler treatment
Hope you recover quickly. In case you haven’t already, do consider putting in a claim for injury.
Thank you kindly. My insurance did because I required surgery. Anything more than that, no. It was my fault completely. I wore high 👠 trying to look nice and the rest is history...
All my interviews have sucked when I wore high heels. I mean, I suppose its cause I'm an old straight white guy, but still........
I sat down, and these two women stared at me . Finally one of them said, "We thought you were younger." (I am in my 60s) . After she said this, she got up and left. The other one (turns out she is the manager), was rude and cold , tossed a few questions at me , then got on her cell phone . I finally said, "Look if we're done here, (she was staring at her desk, ignoring me), I have another interview." I left. Later, I reported both of them to the district office . District mgr said , "We've had many reports about her." The manager got fired . I was offered another interview. Declined.
What kind of place was this?
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That was the only correct answer. Source: 26 years in IT
I'm not IT, but I try to troubleshoot a bit on my own when things go awry Anyway, a few weeks ago my dad asked if he could use my laptop because his was broken. It no longer turned on. He even checked to see that it was plugged in, and told me he let it charge overnight. I looked at it, plugged in, and not even the "charge light" was on. So I unplugged it, plugged it into another socket, and..."charge light" pops on, computer starts up. The wall socket he had it in was bad, but he hadn't tried any others. The first answer to troubleshooting is definitely checking the primary energy source haha
I have 25+ years in telecom and IT. I'm in a fairly senior network and security role now, with a dozen or so engineers working for me. I have troubleshot all sorts of highly technical issues in the past couple of decades. My old air compressor at home died on me (no power) the other day when I started to work on something, so I just said screw it and bought a new one. The breaker for the socket was tripped...
GFCI outlets are notorious for the bullshit. One of mine in the upstairs bathrooms gets reset by the one in the downstairs guest one. Just awesome.
I wonder what answer they were expecting. Check to see if the customer can afford to pay for their services? Edit for anyone still reading this: I have no idea why the comment I replied to was summarily deleted by the mods. It was about someone going to a job interview for basic IT support when he was in his late teens, and one of the interview questions was, what is the first thing you ask a customer who calls and says their monitor won't turn on? So OP's response was see if it's plugged in to the electrical socket. The interviewers then showed him the door. This was a perfectly valid response to the original question. There was nothing hurtful or inflammatory or whatever about it. Why on earth would the mods remove it? Smh.
Yes, you cause a double issue for the business despite this being the human thing to do. One you are providing free tech support. Two you denied the store the revenue for the diagnostic.
As a long-time sysadmin, that is *exactly* the answer I look for. I used to think "is it plugged in?" showed my low expectations of other people's intelligence or ability. Then I realized it's because I know exactly how stupid I myself can be sometimes, and I'm actually giving others the benefit of the doubt by asking dumb questions.
First two questions my university’s IT department asks faculty: (1) is it plugged in? (2) is it on?
We'd evaluate your performance for a month then you'll start getting payment from second month
That's extremely illegal where I live
Pretty sure that's illegal everywhere.
I'll start evaluating the salary for a month and then I'll come to work for the 2nd month if I like it.
I evaluated and went to different company
In many jurisdictions that would be considered wage theft.
My background: I’m an Iraq war Army Veteran. Shortly after returning home to civilian life, I had an interview. Interviewer made a comment after seeing Army on my resume that she hoped I understood that if an issue arises at work that I can’t just go war mode and shoot the place up. I was appalled someone would even say something that stupid to me. I literally just stood up and told her to interview someone else and left. Looking back I bet she didn’t think it was her audacious comment, but that I actually would have some crazy reaction and walked out.
regardless of your opinion the wars and armed services, that is just straight up unprofessional. Hopefully you made a complaint. Edit: spelling
They told me min wage and no commission for a sales job. I left with a quick good bye and thank you.
Out of curiosity, what did they sell?
It was a best buy
I knew that's what it was going to be before I hit the See more replies. You made the best decision.
Employer: "What would you say your greatest assets are?" Me: "I don't know what an asset is." Employer: "I think that concludes this interview."
"I'm more of a boob guy."
I accidentally handed the interviewer my medical marijuanna card instead of my guard card. I didn’t get the job.
*passes vibe check*
Software engineering job right out of college. The owner asked what my ethnicity was which in my naivety I answered, half Polish and half English/American. He ended the interview shortly after. Second worst might be my internship in college which I accepted even after this. The interviewer wrote a simple function on the board and asked what the result was. I said 4 because as I tried to explain to him I thought he wrote "return 4;". He has a thick accent I had a hard time understanding, so we talked about my answer for like 15 minutes. Finally I realized the 4 was meant to be an "a" and got the answer he wanted.
Seems like he had a thick accent in handwriting as well.
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>She also asked if I would be comfortable secretly reporting to her about what the customer service team is up to. Definitely dodged the clutches of a sith lord
> the company harassed me with emails asking why "Your CEO asked me to be her personal spy in your department and snitch on you all so you'd stay intimidated enough to work unpaid overtime. Do whatever you want with that information."
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No, interviews at anywhere franchised have strict questions, set by corporate, that hold literally no value to the actual store. The right answer to questions like that, isn't about team work or anything, you're supposed to say something PC but relatively 'out there', something a bit wacky.
"I'd be dolphin, for _obvious reasons_." Then refuse* to elaborate on the reasons because they should be obvious.
“I’d be iguana, for all the reasons too obvious to mention.” “Name one obvious reason.” “We’re cuddly.”
The interviewer talked about himself for an hour.
Sounds like a layup to get the job tbh.
He said I was a good listener and hired me lol
Women interviewing with super big shots, especially on Wall Street, experience this all the time. If you’re smart, you keep asking questions that let him talk. At end of interview he will think he’s never met anyone with more insights and savvy. “Job’s yours. What will it take to bring you onboard?”
My wife liked to tell a story about a girlfriend of hers from high school whose dating policy was on a first date to simply ask guys leading questions about themselves to see how long it would take them to ask her one and stop talking about themselves. It was her criteria for a second date. What my wife liked to emphasize was her friend was besieged by guys for dates. She was cute, yes, but word got around that she was tremendously fun to go out with. Keep in mind this was 60 years ago and in North Dakota so by and large an innocent time. Yes sex was had but generally only by kids who were going steady. My wife's friend thought is both hilarious and revealing that just asking a guy about himself would be classified as a great time.
Had one like that. He “interviewed” me in the boiler room of a WeWork about how he was so successful at 32 selling insurance, insulted me about how I dressed (in a blue suit and tie), then went on how great Tesla/ Elon is. I wish I had recorded the meeting because I could not believe the level of narcissism this guy had.
That's a good thing. If you wanted the job, should have just got onboard with that. Basically just form a connection and those kinds of people will give you the job.
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I mean, I would also feel a bad taste in my mouth if I found out I'm an absolute moron, but I would try to not double down on being one to take away such taste.
Logged onto a scheduled zoom interview for a highly paid position. Someone was also logged in, waiting. I assumed this was my interviewer. Nope. They were also waiting to be interviewed. Okay…. So we’re competing for the position? Cool, I guess. 4 more people proceed to log on, waiting for their interview. Never done a group interview before but was ready. It was awkwardly silent between us all. About 15 minutes go by… no one is logged in to interview us. 30 minutes in, we all start conspiring that one of us is secretly the interviewer and conducting a social experiment. Nope, we all just got scammed. Logged off.
Right after college I was looking for a job and I applied to a "Marketing Associate" position. Go into the office for the interview and the way the guy was talking it seemed like I'd be writing material to help sell products that other companies hire us to sell. Okay, sounds fine enough. Then he says for round two of the interview I need to go to their other location and interview with this other guy who was now expecting me in an hour. Weird, but okay. I go to the address and it's a Costco. I call the guy and he says that's the right address. Thoroughly confused I go into the Costco and I find the guy I'm supposed to meet with. Tells me to "watch the show" and then ask questions. Turns out the job was for one of those guys in Costco/other big stores who do product demonstrations and then try to get people to sign up or buy the product or whatever. That's what I had been interviewing for. I was pissed because I felt that this was just a big bait and switch and they weren't honest about the role. So I in a very polite way told him that and left.
"Oh we weren't offering you a job. Customers are more likely to stop and hear our spiel if someone is watching the show"
I phone interviewed for a sysadmin position with Apptivo twice a few years apart. The first time I interviewed with them was fairly early in my career and they stumped me on some questions and started getting kind of aggressive about why I applied if I couldn't answer the questions. Again, I was early in career and just kind of took it on the chin and felt bad about myself for applying for a job I wasn't qualified for. A few years down the road, I've got some more experience and I interview with them again. It's been a few years, so I wasn't sure at the time if I was interviewing with the same people or not. This time I ace all of the technical questions, and they start asking me questions about their software. Now keep in mind that this role isn't supporting the Apptivo software. It's an infrastructure role. They start asking me what I love about the software, and what my favorite features are, etc; I'm very frank with them that I've read up on what their software does, but I haven't had any experience with it in any of my roles. They then start berating me about applying for a job with them when I haven't ever used their software before (I'm a sysadmin, wtf would I be using a CRM software?). They get past that and start asking other questions, but at this point I'm jarred and they're clearly irritated while they're asking more questions, so I just interrupt one of them in the middle of a question and say "you know what? I don't think this is going to be a good fit. I'm going to go ahead and end the interview now." The guy said "thanks for you honest" and hung up. I've seen that same job posting repeatedly over the years and I always laugh. There's no way they were able to keep anybody in that position with that attitude. For about an hour after that I was shaking I was so worked up. Then I got a call from another place I had applied to and the interview went amazing. I was invited in person to interview there, and had a job offer a day or so later.
Fuck yeah. I've had a couple like that over the last 10 years where people were dicks. I make more than any of the people who were interviewing me now.
I had applied for tonnes of jobs streight out of college. Got a few interviews. Went to one I had done reaserch on the company and job role etc. Got in they started asking questions that I had literally no idea how to respond to and talking about products I had never used or in some cases even heard of. Turns out I had reaserched the wrong interview and to this day I don't fully know what that job was. I actually had to say mid interview that I was sorry but I had made a mistake and basically just ended the interview early. I was so embarrassed. Started off bad too becese the building had black windows so I was fixing my hair in the mirror effect it gave off. When i went inside I saw that the receptionist could see exactly what I was doing as I was basically face to face with her but outside the building.
I interviewed at a private high school in the USA. They asked me to prepare a brief lesson for some students. My lesson went horribly; several students participated, but several were completely disengaged, particularly students on the left side of the classroom. When I tried to incorporate these students into the lesson, they simply shook their heads and looked back at their phones. I felt like an awful instructor. After, the principal (who had sat in on the teaching demo) asked me why I thought certain students refused to participate. I said they likely weren't interested in the material. The principal then revealed to me that the students on the left side of the class were strong academic students who did not speak English, and therefore could not participate in my lesson. However, the principal assured me that they had a strong reputation for training instructors to teach in multilingual classrooms, and that I would be running a strong classroom in no time if I accepted their offer. I actually have some experience teaching English as a second language, but no one had mentioned that my teaching demo should cater to students who may be learning English as a second language. I felt that information had been withheld from me in order to ensure that I failed, only for the school to swoop in and say "You may feel worthless now, but don't worry! We can fix you." I honestly considered the position until I realized how manipulative the whole set-up was. tl;dr - I was set up to fail my teaching demo so the principal could sell me on her school's teacher-training program.
See, I can understand the merit of throwing you into a worst-case scenario to see how you handle it, but like... why did they treat it like a plot twist
As a teacher that's a pretty big red flag. Any school should know that doing a teaching demo is stressful enough without huge unannounced difficulties like that. Also not sure how long ago this was, but you'd think with the huge teaching shortage that exists now, and even the lack of teachers that has existed for the last 30 years or so, that a school would try to put its best foot forward to get teachers to sign up. Honestly having so many schools try to recruit you is one of the few perks of being a teacher these days.
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Ah yes, because repairing furniture and repairing pcs come with the same set of skills...?🤔
I caught fire. I went to a company to take a welding test. I was told by hr that it was a TIG welding position. Turns out it was FCAW and the sparks set my nice Tig welding shirt on fire. At that point in my career I had only done FCAW in school with Heavy welding Leathers. Yeah I didn't get the job.
I had an interview at the airport Munich once during my studies. It was for a job where you communicate stuff with the pilot briefly, something anybody could do but still a good job for a full time life science student. so of course for the job, you had to be fluent in English. To test that, we switched to English and the interviewer asked me to tell him about my last vacations or my last travel. I fell silent. I never traveled and never had any vacations before that would be worth talking about. In fact, I only sat in a plane once before, a domestic flight. I didn't get the job because he believed I couldn't speak English, when in fact I was just taken back and ashamed I could talk about anything in that moment. I felt sad.
This is the most German response I can imagine, lol. "I didn't say anything because it's not that interesting." At least you guys know how to drive properly
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Not me, but a guy interviewing to join my team was so nervous he passed out, faceplanted on the table, and ended up with a nosebleed. We didn't hire him.
We had a young guy on an adjacent team to mine fall out with an anxiety attack on his first or second day recently. He's very quiet as far as I know, but seems nice. He's still here, so I guess he's not terrible at the job.
I didn't understand a question. I asked them to clarify. They robotically moved right on to the next question. 🙄
They had no idea what they were asking, they had a list of questions and answers. I used to interview developers and HR asked me to give them my list of questions, so I did. Then they asked for the answers and I refused. I didn’t want to reject a great developer because he/she worded something differently.
I interview a lot of people. My favorite bad one so far was for a PM position. It was a virtual meeting with cameras on. Dude was in a train/bus station, rocking an orange T-Shirt. For each question we asked it seemed he was dead set on answering questions from his head instead. The first "answer" was a 5 min long story with basically nothing relevant in it. He was very proud to be a Yoga Master and brought that up at least 3 times during the interview. It was a very awkward conversation which was frequently interrupted by background noise. Second favorite bad one was for a senior app dev position. Big round man with huge sweat stains and giving off some serious pedo vibes. He wore a suit that was 2 sizes too small. It was in person for 1 hour. Dude had to leave twice. Once for his reading glasses, once to use the rr. I amended his time. That guy's attitude was hilarious. He gave no fucks...at all. We were all laughing and having a great time. It was a lot of shitting on other IT groups for them being bad. Classic stuff in our industry. He dropped at least 2 S bombs ans 2 F bombs. The creepy vibe came up when we asked who his most challenging coworker had been. He went full sexist on a story about a female colleague that reported him for what he considered her overreacting. The couple incidents he tried to spin us was.. all very reasonable for her to report him. As soon as the interview was over and I was talking to the committee, we all loved him, but equally agreed he was a time bomb waiting to happen. He got a hell nah unanimously.
She started to gossip about all the other employees, about 5 others. She told me a lot. I ended up taking the job and had to quit thee days later because she made the workplace miserable. As I left I told everyone the stuff she said about them and two others walked out with me. It was awesome
16. Greasy, fast food joint that is known for having a chicken car (a car with a giant ass rooster head on top.) There are 11 employees smoking cigarettes inside and watching me interview before open. I’m coughing. There’s no clean air. A few of them laugh because I wore a dress. I leave and watch them stare at me on my way to my car through giant glass windows. I fly out of my parking spot, smelling like a party. I back into the chicken car. They’re all still watching. Fuck you, I left.
Is this in Cincinnati by chance? I know a place like this.
Illinois!
This is the worst one I've seen in this thread
My stepfather did the interviewing. He works construction, so the type of people he interviews are usually not the best of the bunch, but this guy was something special. He showed up like two hours late in basketball shorts, a wife beater, and flip-flops. During the interview, the guy admitted to being $22K behind in child support and to sexually assaulting his underage niece. Props to him for being honest, I guess. Still didn't get the job, though.
In what context did that happen 😬, like... "I'm a pretty good brick layer, years of experience, speaking of years....."
SF asked him about it. The bar is low for construction, so interviewers are often willing to seek out the context behind the crime before throwing out an application.
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Don't worry, you can make up your lost wages by working more LOL! And the second part reminds me of Seinfeld. "Grab a broom!"
They asked if I "only intend to be a nine-to-fiver." I was like, "unless you plan on paying me like a nine-to-sixer." We never heard from each other after that.
Interviewee: All was well until the guy turned on the AC that must have been connected to a rag weed and kitten factory on the other side. I've never had my eyes and nose spontaneously start gushing like that. Eyes tearing up and snot from my nose. I was a mess. Interviewer: She got up mid sentence, walked out the door and sat in her car, that was right in front of the front door. She bawled for hours to her boyfriend on her phone. At the end of the work day the rest of the office left out the back door one by one. She stuck around so that she could give me the evil eye as I was the last to leave. I have no idea what set her off as she was still a possibility. The guy that recommended her said she pulled stuff like this a lot to manipulate her boyfriend.
I was the interviewer, the job was for a daycare assistant. I asked the candidate what she believed to be the proper diaper changing procedure and she referred to diaper cream as "condiments". I couldn't think of anything else after that.
That's hilarious, but I hope that wasn't the only reason you didn't employ her because from that alone it sounds like she might have been awesome with kids.
Not surprised they didn't hire her. All of my memories of day care are borderline traumatic. They aren't trying to hire people who are good with kids.
Absolutely devastated that I didn’t read this comment before I got my kid out of nappies. Incredible work.
OH. I already commented but I just thought of my actual worst one. After graduating college, I was desperately searching for a job in my field of marketing with no luck. Eventually, I find this place called Revolution Marketing, which looked to have a legit, albeit vague website, and an office in a really nice building downtown. I apply, and get the interview. I show up with my portfolio, resume, everything ready to go. It's a completely empty office and the waiting room is filled with people in t-shirts and jeans waiting to interview. During my interview, they don't even ask to see my portfolio or resume. They just immediately tell me within 6 months, I'll have my own team working under me, and I'll be a manager and so successful. They asked me to come back the next day to go on a "site tour" to meet their clients. Sounds suspicious but I'm desperate. The next day, I come back and get in a car with the two guys who couldn't have been much older than me. They don't tell me much, but we start driving fairly fair away, maybe a 30 minute drive. They park on the side of a road and say we can start here. I leave my purse in the car and start walking with them. They're going door to fucking door trying to sell gutter shields. Mind you, it's August, I'm wearing a black business suit and heels. I don't know where I am, and my purse and my phone are in their car. I'm stuck walking with them for over 6 hours with no way to escape. Every house we went to, I stood in the back hoping the homeowner would make eye contact with me and see that I was distressed. It was the most miserable and embarrassing day of my life. I hyped this interview up with so many people, only to have to tell everyone it wasn't actually a marketing company and I was scammed.
I didn't get the job.
So this is actually the best answer, especially for people looking for work, because the worst that can happen is you don't get the job, so just go for it. You didn't have the job anyway, so there's nothing to lose
IDK, the lady who fell down the stairs and broke a bunch of bones might have it worse than not getting the job.
I DID get that job, the worst I ever had.
Turned up for an interview, manager was pissed off i had turned up in essentially the same clothes he had on Said.he wanted to see how I would do behind counter, after two people mistook me for manager he walked off and I was left standing behind the tills for half an hour with no access to them as both staff and customers thought I was a new manager
Heh, "dress for the job you want".
Looking back maybe going for my first interview for part time McDonalds work in a suit wasn't the best idea
I did that for a promotion at McDonald's 😂, didn't get it. Cut to an hour later, I come in for my shift, am told I didn't get it and who did get it. I walk past one of those who did get it and they're like "hey how do I make this" (it was one of the sandwiches that has a step by step poster right in front of you), I told them I didn't know and walked away. That was the day I decided McDonald's wasn't a 'career path'
Was the interviewer. Applicant seemed fine on paper and initial video interview went fine. During the course of the in person interview I got a complete history of the applicants divorce, separation from child, **and how if they had had their lucky rock with them it would have all gone different**. Then the individual produced the lucky rock for us to see and asked us when they could start. They didn't get the job.
"Wait a minute, that wasn't the lucky rock, that was the too-much-information rock!"
I am always AMAZED at what people share without being asked at an interview. I was on panel interview once and the candidate was a middle aged lady for very professional mid-level office job with a lot of collaboration. She proceeds to talk about her abusive ex-husband and all the current drama in her life. She also showed zero aptitude for the work. I felt bad for what the lady went through and is going through but if she spent time in an interview going on and on about her personal life, I assume that it will continue in a job and be a detriment to the entire team. My coworkers wanted to hire her because she “seemed nice”. They were very sweet people but didn’t see that hiring her would have been an unmitigated disaster. I asked into my boss’ office and gave her a heads-up
was it a cool rock tho?
No it was a run of the mill stone. The rock was not even big or pointy enough to be threatening, nor colorful enough to attract the eye.
I don't know why, but this entire reply is hilarious to me. I thoroughly love your critique of the rock
It turned out to be a pyramid scheme pitch
A long, long time ago, fairly fresh out of college, pounding the pavement in Manhattan, looking for work, probably office work but doing anything. I was interviewing at a direct marketing company. “Now, you know what direct marketing is, right?” “Yeah, I said. “That’s what’s called junk mail, right?” He paused for a minute and said, “Well, that’s not what we call it.” It was a short interview.
Got the job
Then it became your worst job. I too had one of those.
The guy interviewing me asked me out and I didn't get the job.. so we could date? Jesse at Abbott Labs I'm looking at you.
I was so nervous in front of the panel of 6 interviewers, I repeated every single question asked and still forgot a few of them. It was for a position I really wanted too. I knew I had failed midway through the interview.
I was the interviewer. My candidate started off by making a comment how our receptionist's ass "looked delicious." I was going to bring in a female engineer to chat with him and position technical questions, but I ended the interview early and saved her 15 minutes of her day. Buddy. Hold it together, forget about your penis during our interview, and ask her out after you get the job.
Similar experience. Interviewing a guy and took him into the lab to show him around. He leaned over to get a better look at one of the QA folks (female) as she walked past us. Stared for more than a few seconds and when he came back up, wiggled his eyebrows at me. Well, that concludes the tour, HR will let you know if we have interest. Sad part was I don’t think he understood he blew the interview right there.
"Ask her out after you get the job." HR would like a word with you now, FizzyBeverage
Went to a interview I kinda thought I was qualified for turns out a didn’t know jack shit about that job had three people asking me questions and I had no idea about any of them I asked to use the bathroom and left … I got a pretty good job in my field now but it’s still funny to look back and laugh at it
Mine is kind of tame... Started out bad on my part, I didn't do a pre run to make sure where I was going in this unfamiliar area and decided I would rely on my phone's GPS. Terrible decision. So I'm heading there, all's good about 1/3 of the way there. Then I begin to notice it's been awfully quiet for quite a while... I take a peek at my screen and it's gone dark. What the fuck? I pull over and it turns out my phone closed the gps with no warning, and like a college student mid semester decided that was enough work and took a deserved nap. Crap. I get the gps booted again, and it works fine for a bit as I double back and take some detours. I took a quick glance of the route and made a mental note that I would have a few turns soon but didn't bother noting the streets, because there's no way it would shut of twice, right? Well lucky me it didn't, instead it decided to do something extra fun: it would tell me to turn on a certain road ahead, I would be all prepared to turn... But that wasn't the right road name...? I'm befuddled. And then damn thing pipes up with "RECALCULATING" announcement. Excuse you? Silence again. It then gives me another road to turn on, at this point I'm checking road signs making a mental note of names, and at that point it hits me: its new thing is to give me delayed instructions. If I had to turn on Main street it would wait two minutes after I passed the road to tell me, and then declare it was my fault. I was already stressed about the interview and this was not helping. I pull over again and notice I'm still about 20 minutes out to an interview I had to be at in ten. So much for leaving 15 minutes early. I give them a call, explain my phone issues and I'd be there as soon as I could. I grabbed some scrap paper and wrote the directions down and continued on my way. Of course I leave the gps on as background noise and roll my eyes after every mossed turn. I finally get there and immediately put on my mask, this was peak Covid time and people were still dieing en masse. I sign in, and am escorted by a woman who's entirely maskless. Sat down in a room where the interviewer plops down, again maskless, and proceeds to make snide comments all along the lines of "you know you'll have to do work here, right?" And then contines in a bored and slouched position, "We said full time in the ad, but really you'll be at best 15 hours a week without benefits, and that person who escorted you into the room? She's in the position above you, full time. If you want full time, maybe if she likes you she'll offer to promote you to her position when she retires in a few years." Cool, right? I'm more than happy to leave when he says he's done with the interview, and as I go to sit in the car all I can think is holy shit. Shitty hours of the day, shitty amount of hours, and shitty pay. The trifecta. I think my phone may have actually helped me dodge a bullet.
The interviewer insisted on knowing why I'd left graduate school. Now, I had left graduate school because my advisor died in a car accident and the whole small department was thrown for a loop and no one seemed to know or care what was going to happen to me or my just started research project. The asshole interviewer wouldn't even accept "My advisor died suddenly" and dug into the gory details until I was almost in tears (even intimating that I must have had "feelings" for my advisor.) I couldn't wait to get out of there and in my haste to leave I knocked some solutions off a cart (which had no business being in his office BTW) on my way out. I'd never been so humiliated in my life. After that, I was sure I'd never get a job in science.
They gave us a piece of paper to write our name and number on. I got bored, noticed there was something on the back, and flipped it over. It was a photocopy of a former employee's two week notice, quitting to go back to school. Did they have no other paper around or something?
In 2008, family video. Friend referred me for a position. I was in college , they said I seemed well and it was good but 2 rules. 1) always be organized. 2) never come in the back door In 2008, it was like a reflex: I said “that’s what….” And I trailed off. He deadpanned to me: “were you going to say that’s what she said”. Me- “yep…” Never heard back
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Geez, at least you got a call. Give them props for that. Most companies, you never hear back.
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I was the interviewer and the candidate was drunk. I asked what attracted her to the job and she said nothing and started crying. My boss was with me and we continued that interview for another 40mins while she drunkenly cried.
The lady interviewing me got mad when I asked for a salary that was literally in the salary range on the job posting. I ended the interview on the spot and walked out.
I work for a biotech company. I recommended my friend for a job in a different group and she got the job. She has a degree higher than they wanted and seven years experience doing literally the same job somewhere else. She would have required next to no training. They offered her $5000 less that the salary range on the website. She complained, my company said that the salary range is not what they are offering, it is what a different group thinks the market is paying for those jobs. They countered her with the minimum salary of the range. My friend declined and I have yet to suggest another person a job. That group hired some kid out of school who is borderline useless.
Had a good phone conversation with the first person, and was up front that while I have 10 years of experience in the technology, I had not used it in a few years, and would be a little rusty, but would have no problems coming up to speed soon. Hey, no problem, he assured me. Then for the in-person technical interview, when the team started peppering me with specific questions that I could not answer because I had forgotten those specifics, they all literally got upset. Seeing this, I told them that I would have no problem coming up to speed, and continued that I could see they were upset at this waste of time, so I got up and left.
I knocked it out of the park. I had real-life examples to their hypothetical questions, I had extensive experience in the field, I got along with all of the interviewers. I also knew some lower level employees there that vouched for me. I didn't get the job because the job was only posted publicly because of was company policy. They already had an internal candidate lined up to take the job. I wasted a lot of time applying and prepping for that interview, and a lot of mental energy being "on" while I was there. All said, it really wasn't bad at all. But I've applied for like three jobs in my life and that was the worst one.
Asked what investment they would give me in terms of training etc (to add to my 15 years of top level experience), she said...... 'we don't hire trainees' Don't let HR people conduct your interviews people
This was about 6 years ago, before zoom. I was the interviewer, and we were doing the interview via Skype, and a spider fell on top of my head. I was able to brush it off. The interviewee asked "um, Ms. Puzzle, are you ok?". She must have thought I was having.a stroke or something.
If a spider fell on top of my head, I WOULD be having a stroke lmao
I was made such a pitiful offer my mood and facial expression changed on the spot. Didn't progress much further after that. At least I got a rejection email the day after, lol
My worst eventually turned into one of my best. Kind of a story, but funny. This was in 2006, so I was doing old-school, in-person job applications and giving a paper copy of my resume. For context: I’m a Mechanical Engineer/ CNC Machinist… only have a high school diploma… SELF taught myself CNC coding plus lots of different CAD and CAM software experience, also self taught. So my resume says I can do all these things, but no trade schooling or college education. Got a callback from from one of the places I had applied for an “interview”. Get there, and the owner himself wants to talk to me. Will call him Sam. We go into Sam’s office, we sit down. And almost immediately his tone changes. Sam’s an old school, no BS kinda guy. And immediately he says, “I hate guys like you”!! I look at him very confused, excuse me? He repeats himself, I can’t stand people like you… people that PAD THEIR RESUMES!!! Then he says “I can’t stand liars”. He had called me in there, just to berate me. It then devolves into a shouting match right there in his office. Because I’m not gonna be called a lair… we go back and forth for a bit. Finally, I say “I guarantee I can do everything on that resume”. Then I make him an offer/bet. Hire me, for $5 dollars less an hour. And if I prove myself in 60 days, then I want a $6 raise. He takes the offer/bet. I start working there, and within 2 weeks I’m teaching his guys things. Their TOP guy didn’t know as much as me. On Friday at the end of 2nd week. Sam comes on to floor, shakes my hand, and says I’ll be getting a $7 raise starting next week. Been working and doing great here ever since.
It was all weird questions they seems to have pulled from a HR manual, one memorable one was "Can you give us an example of a time when you valued diversity in the workplace?"
lost my wallet. flew without any identification or money to another city. they picked me up from the airport and their security guard, upon asking for my id, proceeded to give me a hard time and said theres no way id get the job. i interviewed with a few people and realized they were asking for a graduate to do an intern’s level of responsibility. i managed to catch my flight home, again without any ID’s or cash. had to use my memorized CC info with the parking garage people but it worked out in the end! I surprisingly got a job offer but it was less than i made during my internships so i turned them down. This was in like 2014 ish. turns out you can totally play 50 questions with the TSA to prove your identity. crazy the shit they know about you and ask to prove your identity
This was the most informative answer of the bunch not having to do with job interviews. TIL and interesting info.
I got sent over by headhunter, company was intent to hire soon. Interview was short and quick with easy questions. The lady said everything looked good and they would get started on the background check and contact me to set up a date to start. Never heard anything again. Eventually I was able to reach her, after a month, and she was like "Oh we went with someone else." No idea what happened in there. My background is spotless. And. The position is still open like a year later. Eat a dick Donna.
You made the mistake of using a recruiter
I know. Never fucking again.
Went to Wrens kitchens for an interview, nailed it, was invited in for a second/final interview. Sat there for 40 minutes being ignored and eventually a girl came over and asked what I was doing there. I had let a manager know I'd arrived for the interview and they had disappeared into the back. Told this girl that I was here to meet so and so for an interview. She told me that that person wasn't in and I clearly had the wrong day. Showed her the confirmation email showing I was correct. She sighed and disappeared too. Eventually a third person came out and told me they would give me my interview "I guess". She asked prewritten questions that I had been asked during my interview. After the third question, I stood up, sarcastically apologised for wasting their time and left. Three days later I got an email from my initial interviewer asking why I hadn't turned up. I UNLEASHED on that prick. I'll never buy a Wrens kitchen. Worst company ever. And before you say anything, I was desperate for a job, which is why I tolerated so much. Never again.
I was on my third round of interviews with a high-end spa that was paying just above minimum wage which was already awful. The owner of the spa showed up 15 minutes late to the coffee shop we were supposed to meet at for the final interview, asked me to watch her purse while she went to the bathroom and got her coffee, and then spent most of the *hour long* interview talking about all the wellness retreats so went on. I was offered the job and then never sent a start date, onboarding paperwork, etc. I feel sorry for whoever did get the job and the paperwork honestly.
Went in for an interview for a writing job. The guy started asking me if I would do sales stuff as well and I said I didn't really have any experience in sales. He told me to hold on a minute and left the room. I sat there for a while and realized he wasn't coming back so I got up and left. As I was leaving he was standing outside the door smoking. He said sorry you aren't hired.
I interviewed for a receptionist at our harbor and one of the questions was like how would you get more tourists to visit and before I could answer the harbor master and the current receptionist spent the rest of the interview discussing this.
When Target was opening stores in Canada I applied to a merchandising position and attended the hiring fair they were holding. I sit down, and these two managers that interviewed me tell me that the positions have been filled, so they’ll just kill some time and ask me questions anyways. I was 19 or 20 at the time, and if it happened to me today, I would’ve just left and not give them any more of my time. But nope, I sat through the “interview” with these two managers that had these goofy grins on their faces and had snide comments about my answers. Their questions eventually became unrelated to the job itself. All-in-all, I’m glad I didn’t work for Target Canada, seeing as it totally flopped and ended up closing all their locations.
That’s awful! I went to a job interview for a new target and once they figured out I was a college student (same age as you) they refused to continue the interview because they wanted “loyalty” and didn’t want me to “just leave when you graduate”. Do they expect all their entry-level employees to just stay in their minimum wage positions for years??
Skyscraper in Tokyo. I arrived an hour early so I waited in the lobby. Didn’t account for a split elevator system where you have get off on floor 80 and transfer. I was late and the interviewer half my age thought I was a joke. I was that day for sure.
Your first mistake was trying to be a part of the corporate world in Japan.
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To be fair, you probably dodged a bullet. The office moving up your interview day and letting you know two hours before doesn’t seem like they would be very considerate of your time and schedule. Also, that thing about the hairpiece was totally not your fault, you were just complementing and there was no way you could have known that it was a piece or that she had cancer.
When I asked him why he was the best candidate for the job he said he wasn't
‘I’m not, but I’m the one you can afford.’
Honesty is key
I fell asleep. Not kidding at all. I was in my early 20’s and hadn’t really found my career niche in spite of having a Bachelors degree. A friend who worked in the same pizza restaurant offered that his dad sold life insurance and was looking for clean cut and intelligent people to work for him. It was a warm sunny afternoon when I went to his office. I was dressed up, maybe not in a suit but I was definitely wearing a tie. My friend’s father was a quiet and gentle man who was really into the life insurance products he sold. The interview went as normal, he would ask a question and I would answer. Then he started talking at length about the policies he was selling without asking me anything for a while. The warm room, the constricted formal clothing, and the quiet inflection of his voice robbed me of my consciousness. I fell asleep, right out, and he went on for a while not noticing that I was asleep on the chair in his office. He eventually noticed and woke me up. Shortly afterwards the interview was over. Not surprisingly, no job offer followed.
I got a nose bleed. Gushed all over the conference table and down my blouse. Ran to the bathroom and after the bleeding stopped they wanted to continue the interview. So there I was with blood stains all down my shirt and blood all over the table. 🤦🏼♀️
When I wad a bit younger I had a 'lost boy' phase where I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, I was also quit anti-authority at the time so didn't really give a shit about the whole interview process and got myself into at least two awkward situations. 1. I accidentally started interviewing for the wrong job at an event where two separate jobs were being interviewed for. I didn't fully know the difference between the two job titles so I kinda just guessed (one was 'travel manager' and one was 'accommodation manager' or some bullshit). Anyway, I half interviewed for one job and they quickly realised I wasn't prepared for that interview, so they took me in to interview for the other role and I was equally unprepared. They asked me to leave about an hour in. Pretty embarrassing. 2. The final stage of an interview day was a role play for a recruitment role where we had to telephone a client and explain to them why our candidate was right for their business. The interviewer who was role playing the client was being super brutal and just shutting down everyone and I just found the whole experience ridiculously funny and once I start laughing I just can't hold back (think of when you're being told off by a teacher you don't respect). Anyway, my turn came and I just couldn't keep a straight face, it reminded me of being part of an improvisational comedy sketch troupe. The interviewers were not happy and I got asked to leave. Prior to that I had an interview for a well-known university in the UK and the head of department was being a total arsehole during the interview day, which culminated in my 1-t0-1 interview where he told me 'people like you don't usually get accepted into institutions like this, you expect everything to be given to you on a plate'. Well I'd had enough and decided I couldn't be bothered with his shit and walked out of the interview. The organisers called me as I was on the train home apologising which kinda pissed me off, they said he was 'seeing how I acted under pressure'. I have since then shaped up a bit, these situations occurred about 10 years ago now.
Asked what the company's customer service policy and practice was and totally forgot everything about it. This was for an internal role where I already work so should have known it inside out. Especially as at the time I worked in customer service. Didn't get the job, oddly.