The interview had loooong periods of silence and he never made eye contact. It felt so personal it was like being stuck in an elevator with an ex-mother-in-law.

Later I found out that he was forced to interview me to “Prove” that pending charges of sexual harassment against him by a former employee couldn’t possibly be true.

I went for an interview at a prestigious music school in Surrey, England. The founder of the school just happened to be buried on school grounds.

Part of the interview was an orientation stroll around the grounds, with some minutes spent awkwardly standing by the side of the grave in silence and ‘paying respects’.

It definitely interrupted my sales pitch.

There was a guy at a job I had in college who wouldn't take no for an answer. He was weird and annoying, told all of his friends we were dating even though they knew I'd been with my boyfriend for like 3 years at the time (small town), and he told me that he wanted to take my last name so he could be Ryan Ryan.

About a year later I was at a job interview. She kept saying that I looked familiar but I had no recollection of her. She finally placed it and her demeanor changed immediately.

You know my son Ryan!

Ryan ‘Callahan'?

No, Ryan ‘McGregor'. And you're the little tr*mp who tried to cheat on her boyfriend with him.

(Nope) I didnt try to defend myself or argue. I just got up and left. You can't defend yourself against someone's precious son.

I was interviewer, taking an interview for a position of Java Developer for fresher candidates:

Me: Hello

She: Hello Sir

Cutting all unnecessary things, come to the point.

Me: which language are you comfortable with?(I meant to say Programing Language, since she mentioned in her resume Java along with C/C++).

She: Hindi, English, Bangla and Oriya

Me: What?

Me: I meant to say in which language you have expertise?

She: Bangla sir.

Me: What?

Me: Tell me what is Java?

She: I know Java Sir, I read it last night about it.

Me: What?

They ask a question.

Me: what?

They ask again.

Me (what are they trying to ask, oh God, they are looking at me, say something). “I love cats.”

One of the interviewers: “Good but we were asking how you will deal with a child who was holding a gun and threatening to k**l everybody.”

Me (s**t): “oh, (laugh), well I will not corner him. I will sit down at a comfortable distance and ask him what is going on, why does he want to k**l people, what caused him to get to this level. And try my hardest to get enough information out of him in order to use it to calm him down and see if he will surrender the gun.”

One of the interviewer: “good answer, now what how would you feel about working with children prosecuted for s*x crimes and m****r charges?”

Me (maybe I should have looked at the job description more before applying) “I will not lie, I will be nervous but in the end they are children and not the same level of education and support as other children.”

I did not get the job. I blame my cat commenr. I am kind of glad I did not.

I waited in a room.

“Hey, welcome”

I entered the door, sat down.

Two people sat opposite from me.

“you are not wearing a tie?” - them

“No” - me

“Why not?” - them

“A tie is not going to make me perform any better” - me

“I think this conversation has run its course” - them

“……” - me

“I have a few connections who might have an interest in you, I'll email them to you, try them”. - them

I stood up. And left, took the train back home. This was a financial consultancy firm close to Bijlmer Arena in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Called my girlfriend, (now wife).

“How was it..how was it…?” - her

“uhm.. don't know.. let's go to London, f**k this country ” - me

Last minute HR add an individual to my panel interview — turns out it was my ex. I was offered the job and if I accepted we’d have to formally disclose our previous relationship. Awkward because the reason we broke up — I found out that he was engaged to someone else during our relationship, who was his now wife.

This is a true example of- telling truth doesn’t always help you in job interviews.

Location: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee.

One of my friends had a job interview for an IT company. He has cleared all the technical rounds and now was the time for HR. Clearing all the technical rounds, he was quite confident of being selected in the company. After some basic introduction here is how the HR interview proceeds.

HR- “How do you deal with situations when you face a lot of pressure or you get depressed?”

Friend (without thinking for a minute)- “I sleep”. My friend still not realizing his blunder, was waiting for the HR to respond.

After a minute of silence- HR (laughing)- “I think you are in a lot of pressure, you should go to your room and have a sleep!” Verdict- Not selected!

Having 5 children and none of them are in school. Eldest one is 8 years old. Always coming up with bull s**t excuses, then getting offended when being called out.

“Children should been seen and not heard”
“Don’t speak unless spoken to”.

Using their kids as pawns against their SO / ex / the kids' other parent.

Violence against the child, not caring who preys on them.

Screaming down the phone at me (a teacher) calling me a c**t and to do my job.