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30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged

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For most people, a job interview is pretty stressful. Sweaty palms, elevated heart rate, racing thoughts, and confusion about where to place your eyes are just a few possible outcomes. As one discussion on Reddit shows, things can get much spicier.

Recently, a person who goes on the platform by the nickname Arpitaintech posted a question on r/RecruitingHell, asking its members to share the funniest or craziest experiences they've had during these private meetings, and received hundreds of stories.

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#1

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged I had an interview for an engineering position. The lady grilled me about completely unrelated stuff and I finally had it when she said “sell me this pen”. I was like “I’m not a sales person I’m an engineer” and she flipped out and said I’m unqualified and bad at dealing with stressful situations and I calmly said “well I’m dealing with you right now”. She was not amused but her co interviewer was trying not to laugh. The workers in the back looked miserable and I had already decided I didn’t want to work for her at that point.

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Final score:

102points

Mike F 1 month ago

Take pen, put it in pocket. You want the pen back? $25.00 please + handling.

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#2

Not me but a friend was applying for a Christmas temp job and the last question was "Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?" Her reply was "No. It's a Christmas classic".

She got the job obviously.

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Final score:

98points

Angelina Petrich 1 month ago

heck yes

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We got in touch with Arpitaintech, and the Redditor was kind enough to chat with us about their viral post.

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"I am myself a career counselor, and many times while I am talking to a job seeker, I come across situations where they have had a crazy experience during the interview," they told Bored Panda about its origins.

"That made me think of asking this question on Reddit, where everyone would come with an even crazier story."

#3

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged He asked me all the “wrong” questions.

are you in a serious relationship? do you want kids? are you religious? how do you lean politically?

then told me all about the problems with his marriage and why they’re in couples counseling. says jesus was their saving grace. he kept pushing that i would change my mind on kids once my “biological clock” kicked in. he admitted he was reluctant to hire women because they usually put work second to their families. then also stated he wanted to hire a women to help keep the office neat and tidy.

and last, but not least..

he gave me an offer for an “administrative assistant” role. i applied for a civil engineering position.

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Final score:

91points

Sergy Yeltsen 1 month ago

More red flags than a Russian parade.

110points

Cammy Mack 1 month ago

Soviet flag. Or Chinese.

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Laurie Donaldson 1 month ago

Soviet. The Russian glad is blue white and red.

1point

Freya the Wanderer 1 month ago

Thou winnest the Internet today!

1point

David 1 month ago (edited)

So.. inferred from the information given, he puts his job before his family. I wonder how he ended up in couples counseling. /S

9points

Colleen Glim 1 month ago

Hmmm. Let’s think

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Bored Potato 1 month ago

More red flags than my hometown during October 1st (I'm Chinese)

6points

arthbach 1 month ago

Oooh, this is definitely 'report to HR'. This person should not have been conducting job interviews if he did not know how to do it and stay within the law.

5points

Donkey boi 1 month ago

'I want a woman that wants to be a mother, and family maker, but won't want her to take time off for her children and family.' Flipping heck, next he'll be saying he wants a blonde that's brunette!

3points

Annette Jones 1 month ago

if this was in the US - every single thing about it is illegal and should be reported!

1point

Aranora 1 month ago

And in Europe

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Andy Frobig 1 month ago

It feels like this should be reported to somebody besides Reddit/BP, but to whom?

1point

ZuriLovesYou 1 month ago

What an aśshole.

0points

TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 month ago

I might get down voted for this, but I don't really get this. can someone please explain what's going on?

0points

Tom Brincefield 1 month ago

Many of the questions in the first paragraph are illegal to ask in the USA. Then he talked about his personal life, which is not appropriate for a job interview. It got worse from there.

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#4

I was interviewing at a company and they asked where I saw myself in 5 years. I have an answer about moving up in position to maybe manage a small team. They said that's not at all what they're looking for, they want someone in that position for 10 years, so I knew I wasn't a good fit, so I had fun in the rest of my interview with them. The hr person asked how I was comparing companies, I told her at Capital one they had a small tree house, at epic systems they had a huge treehouse. I looked at her very seriously and asked how big their tree house was, you've never seen an adult so sad to say they don't have a tree house.

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Final score:

86points

David 1 month ago

This one made me laugh. Also, who wants to work for a company that doesn't want you to advance at all for 10 years?

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As the discussion gained more traction, Arpitaintech noticed a few common patterns emerge.

"One of the peculiar themes found across several answers was that many had a gut feeling in the first few minutes of the interview that they weren't going to get the job, yet interviewers kept the interview going for the sake of it, wasting both their and the interviewee's time," they said.

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"Also, there were many cases where a person was interviewed for 2-3 rounds, only to find out in the end that it was a fake job. Bizarre, right?"

#5

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged Was interviewing to the local wine shop-bar as a Marketing Manager. After 2 rounds of interview, they told me that I will receive a questionnaire about my personality for them to learn more about me.

I thought ok.

They sent a 300 questions clinical psychology test. It had questions about relationship with my parents, my fears or trauma. I was really weirded out and refused to proceed as I don’t want a potential employer to have a record of my psychological issues.

Beautiful-Coach-5418 , Marek Levak / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

85points

Glenn Cuneo 1 month ago

I'd waste their time and pick the most psycho answers possible..... yes I do in fact juggle kittens.... NO, the voices in my head never tell me to order French fries type stuff.

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#6

I’d put a company CEO down as a personal reference. I’d worked for him a few years earlier before he took the role, and he’d said if I ever needed him as a reference to put his name down.

One of the department heads came in halfway through the interview, he seemed okay and then he read through my resume…

After that he was really stand-off ish and I didn’t know why. He cut the interview short, goes “[CEO] is a close personal friend and I know for a fact he doesn’t give personal references. We will have to verify this information and we don’t accept candidates who lie on their applications.”

And I was promptly seen to the door, told “don’t call us, we’ll call you” and escorted out of the building.

I got outside, gave [CEO] a call on his mobile, and asked him what gives. I told him what happened, he calls the guy a f*****t, we chat for a bit, and I go about my life.

A few days later I get a call from the weirdo’s recruiting person telling me my references had checked out, they were really keen on hiring me, and asking when I could start.

In the meantime, I’d already interviewed somewhere else and been offered a job on the spot.

I was like… nah, thanks but no thanks.

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Final score:

75points

Phobrek 1 month ago

The censored word was fückwit, not a homophobic slur

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#7

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged I had an interviewer who told me they almost didn't invite me in because I had a typo on my resume. When I asked him to point it out he said it was my name... (Slightly odd spelling of a common name).

Reasonable_Garlic816 , Tima Miroshnichenko / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

74points

Sergy Yeltsen 1 month ago

*pause* "I think I know how to spell my own name."

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Modern recruitment and its dead ends can certainly be bizarre. According to a 2024 survey of 1,641 hiring managers:

40% of companies posted a fake job listing this year;
3 in 10 companies currently have active fake listings;
Alleviating employee workload concerns and suggesting company growth are the top reasons behind the fake job posting strategy;
Hiring managers say fake job postings led to boosted revenue, morale, and productivity;
7 in 10 hiring managers believe posting fake jobs is morally acceptable.

#8

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged I was asked to come up with changes for the production process while the interviewer vehemently refused to provide any details about the clients, machines, current processes and products. We spent half an hour of me providing vague explanations to cover as many bases as possible, the interviewer asking to be more specific, me asking for details to be more specific rather than generalizing, the interviewer arguing that providing any informations would make it too easy and me getting back to the first step until the cycle repeated.

It was truly the most bizarre interview that I have ever had. When he asked to be more specific for the fourth time and still refused to provide any details, I had enough and ended it.

slubice , Mizuno K / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

65points

arthbach 1 month ago

This sounds less like a job interview, and more like the 'interviewer' was seeking new ways of approaching a task, and decided to farm it out to the applicants.

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#9

“If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?”

I was interviewing for an analyst position so I went for a “decision tree” Got the job

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Final score:

62points

Papa 1 month ago

I hate stupid hypothetical questions like that.

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#10

I once had an interview for a company which it turns out, was behind charging prisoners families the collect call money when the prisoner called them.

They had a laptop where I was supposed to take a proficiency with Linux test. This was an interview at 7 am btw. My first red flag. I was greeted by a password protected root prompt and not given the password. Iknew the commands by heart to drop to single user via editing the grub prompt and bypass the password protection since I worked in a data center and spent a lot of time doing it. Their faces fell. They were actually disappointed they didn't get to treat me like I was stupid for not being able to pass their little test. I completed the rest of the technical questions from a command prompt with no net access and all manpages removed (but not the info pages, real geniuses these guys) and then I surprised them by asking about the work environment. Which consisted of the CEO sitting where he could see everyone's screens and micro managing every thing that was done. A relatively huge for the time database where they made changes on the live DB because the CEO was too cheap to have a testing environment. Ragged out chairs that were stained, and single underpowered dell system attached to the cheapest monitor they could get. The vibe from everyone except the eric trump clone interviewing me was one of misery.

I needed work badly and I was crushed in a way when I was rejected, but in the end I know I really dodged a bullet. The cherry on top was the way they mentioned being a christian company every 30 seconds. What's more christlike than bullying applicants, robbing the families of criminals coincidentally among the most impoverished, and worshiping wealth for yourself?

But he the owner/ceo was rich so I guess a prosperity gospel church would give him a big ol thumbs up? It's been 25 years and I still think of that place occasionally and shudder.

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Final score:

60points

KT 1 month ago

You dodged a missile

37points

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As for the ones that do happen, "skills are the foundation of any interview and a must-have," Arpitaintech said.

However, the Redditor believes the real focus should be on cultural fit. "A bad attitude is almost impossible to fix, and if someone ends up in a place where they don’t connect with the team or environment, it can cause long-term issues for everyone involved."

#11

Interviewed for a job at Sears. The guy kept me waiting for 45 minutes while he went to get McDonalds. I saw him leave and come back with his food. During the interview he insulted me talking about my “poor employment history” because I only worked over the summers during college and called me fat. As he was finishing up being a d******d to me he paused to lick a spot of ketchup off his shirt. It’s not surprising that Sears went bankrupt if this was kind of guy they had in charge of job interviews.

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Final score:

53points

Comment Deleted 1 month ago

I interviewed for a concierge position. Arrived on time. They put me in a windowless conference room to wait. I waited over 1.5 hours like an idiot. They finally came in and apologized and said they had to grab lunch. So why did head office book my interview for that time. I called head office as soon as I left and told them to remove me as a potential candidate and why. Who does that ?

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#12

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged I slept through an interview, completely forgetting about it. In my defense it was sort of sick. Only realized when I was looking at my calendar that evening. I sent an apology email the next business day.

I ended up getting the job.

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Final score:

52points

Multa Nocte 1 month ago

There's a positive switch!

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#13

Not a question but when I tried to get a job that would involve a fair amount of driving, I half jokingly wrote down 'drivers license' under work experience. My interviewer took one look at the application and said "valid drivers license, good. You're already ahead of the other guy".

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Final score:

49points

Mike F 1 month ago

So many people showed up with a suspended license for a transportation job even though it was prominently displayed in the ad.

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#14

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged A potential employer scheduled an interview with my brother... without telling him.

They were upset when he didn't show up, even after he explained the situation. "The best they could do" was to reschedule it for later that day. They did not understand why he was unwilling to immediately drop everything and get on a last-second flight across the country to attend.

He politely asked that they not contact him again.

sorator , Behnam Norouzi / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

48points

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#15

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged While at college I interviewed for a job in a sportswear shop.

They asked me 'what is your biggest weakness?'

For some reason I replied, 'sausage rolls!'.

I didn't get the job!

GeekyStevie , Jez Timms / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

47points

Gizmo 1 month ago

It's cheese for me.

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#16

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged I was desperately looking for a job, anything. So I applied at the dollar store. This is the conversation I had when they called me back:

Them: Hello is this [my name]?

Me: yes

Them: good you’re hired

Me: ok who is this

Them: the dollar store. Bring your direct deposit form. Okay bye

Me: wait!!! What location is it? When do I come in? Who am I speaking to?

Them: [location]. Come on Friday.
*they hang up*

I ended up getting a better job the next day so I never did show up in Friday lol
*Edit: formatting.

pssyrat , TheRegisti / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

46points

Comment Deleted 1 month ago

Yeah run run run. They were more desperate than you.

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#17

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged A lawyer telling me they forged their clients signature to make sure the documents were filed on time. The client didn’t care.

Or the other lawyer who told me they paid a bribe to get documents filed on time.

Who says that in an interview?

eperdu , August de Richelieu / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

45points

Roxy222uk 1 month ago

You, when you report this to the police, or the professional body that regulates lawyers.

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#18

"If you were a brick in a wall which one would you be?"

I'm sorry, I didn't know I was interviewing with Pink Floyd.

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Final score:

45points

Tucker Cahooter 1 month ago

I've had so many horrible and unsuccessful interviews in the 40+ years of my soon to end working life but thankfully I will never have to endure an interview with one of these sorts of idiotic questions

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#19

The interviewer complimented me on something on my resume and I got excited and flustered, went to push my glasses up and stuck my finger right up my nose instead.

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Final score:

43points

Jen Drake 1 month ago

Should’ve told her you were picking your brain for a great answer.

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#20

My dad was at an interview at a mall when a brawl broke out. People were throwing chairs and pulling guns. There was blood everywhere. My dad thought it would look impressive to the interviewer if he tried to intervene. Spoiler alert, he stood no chance and it did not impress anyone. But he was on tv for it!

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Final score:

38points

Lyoness 1 month ago

Please tell me their Dad learned the words "duck and cover" after that.

11points

#21

The job entailed a lot of filing of papers, so I got asked "How do you best file things in folders alphabetically?"

I was like "Uh... with a folder for each letter, and then put the folders in alphabetical order..."

She said "Good... good..." and jotted down some notes.

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Final score:

38points

Papa 1 month ago

This really makes you wonder about the quality of some of their previous job applicants.

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#22

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged I was at an interview for a job at an archival library in London. Three interviewers and I were crammed into a tiny room, and it wasn't going well. I had to take the train in starting at 5 am and I had a bad headache. The interview seemed to drone on.

Then the fire alarm went off. The interviewers tried to ignore it but someone opened the door and told us it was a real incident and we had to evacuate. We went outside and, it being London, the rain was chucking down. I was the only one who'd brought an umbrella so all four of us had to huddle under it. To say it was awkward was an understatement. None of the three said a word during the 15 minutes we were out there, which felt like 15 hours. At one point someone banged on the doors to the library and demanded to be let in, and the arriving fire department had to tell him to calm down.

Finally a couple firefighters emerged from the building to tell us the coast was clear, and we all trooper back in. Amazingly, the three interviewers wanted to go on for another 15 minutes, even though we'd all been in there for 45 minutes already and it was pretty obvious I wasn't getting the job.

And no, I didn't get the job, which at that point was something of a relief.

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Final score:

36points

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#23

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged My interviewer noticed that I majored in International Business and she said that she didn’t finish her degree in International Business because she got cheated on by her ex husband. She said hasn’t gone back to school because she has 3 kids now. Essentially it turned into a venting session.

Bruh f**k that interviewer, it turned out to be a ghost job because the posting has been up for 6 months now.

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Final score:

35points

Karina 1 month ago

Free venting for the interwiewer, she has used this hack for many years and is now a metrix of her own

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#24

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged I once interviewed for Costa Crociere (cruises) for an analyst position.

I arrived at the entrance desk of their HQ 15 minutes before the interview and checked in. Waited for around 20 minutes then a very gentle guy came, led me to a meeting room and started asking me about my hobbies to brake the ice. Around 10 minutes in he asked me: “how would you describe your style?”.

“My….style?”

“Yes…your cooking style”

“Normal…I guess. I can cook some decent stuff but I don’t really love cooking so much”

He was expecting another candidate for a sous-chef position that did not show up and confused him for me. While the guy I actually had to meet came to the reception later and was thinking I left after checking in.

ClickIta , Dapur Melodi / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

35points

StumblingThroughLife 1 month ago (edited)

Hopefully the op realised in the interview and stated she'd come for the Analyst position? She/He didn't mention that, so... It reminds me of many fiction novels where there is a blatant withholding of info that would clear all the angst/misconceptions by Chapter 3, - although I get why they (the authors) do that, lol.

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#25

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged “You want a beer?” No lie, just like that. I hesitated because I was not expecting that, but he opened the fridge and it was filled with beer- half Budweiser, half coors light.

I passed on the beer, still have the job.

blind30 , Pawel Kadysz / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

35points

Heffalump 1 month ago

Not the worst interview imaginable.

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#26

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged Midway through the interview I decided I didn't want to work with these people.
So I pivoted to talking about my favorite movie, The Exorcist, complete with sound effects.

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Final score:

32points

Upstaged75 1 month ago

Sure you did.

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#27

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged This was actually a few weeks ago! It was for a corporate receptionist position and I was interviewed by the loss prevention guy or whatever. First red flag was him telling me that the position falls more under loss prevention and they only post it as “receptionist” because they “get the wrong types of people” if they post it otherwise. Ok……..

Then he goes on to tell me he isn’t like other hiring managers and that his style is unique. He tells me he only asks one question to his interviewees. He then proceeds to ask me “do you love to win or do you hate to lose?” It was bizarre.

Then he talked about himself for the entire rest of the hour. Literally all about himself, his job duties, stories from past work experiences, literally anything and everything about himself.

Then he asks if I have any questions for him. I had prepared a long list of potential questions they would ask and thoughtful responses I could give. I also prepared a few questions for the interviewer. When I asked him those questions he sat and waited for more. I told him how I had been prepared for him to ask me questions and had only prepared a few for him. He told me if he was doing his job right that he wouldn’t need to ask a lot of questions.

He also was drinking a can of soda the entire interview. It was so freaking weird. I got the sense that he already knew who he was going to hire and was just going through with my interview as a formality. So he wasted my time and energy preparing for an interview that basically never happened.

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Final score:

32points

Scott Rackley 1 month ago

"I hate, with a passion, my time being wasted."

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#28

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged I was meeting a friend's brother for a freelance opportunity. I didn't want a job at the time cuz I'd recently quit one and needed my schedule on my own terms.
This guy suddenly starts trying to stress-test me. Obviously I'm doing incredibly well, but I'm like, "Sir, isn't this a freelance opportunity?"
He kept saying that "the job is not hard" and then made me tour the whole office, and then low-balled me. Finally he gets me to meet the CEO person, and I mention that this is a very surprising interview. They're like, we have a contract already and to save face I gotta tell them I'll think about it, but I had to reprimand the guy later cuz not only was it a very low offer it came with an unpaid probation - on a 6-day working week.

Another time these people made me come in for 4 interviews, the 4th was meant to be just 20 minutes according to them, and it ended up being a 1.5hr surprise online test. Then they low-balled me, too. Literally had the VP beg me to join and had to sternly decline for wasting my time.

A third time they made us sit out for 90 minutes as a "stress test". I left as soon as they told me I'd "passed.".

reflexioninflection , cottonbro studio / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

30points

Papa 1 month ago

Sitting outside is not a stress test. It's a test to see how much chicken s**t behavior of theirs you will tolerate.

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#29

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged I applied as a mechanic, the service manager got a call from one of the technicians saying his computer wasn’t working. The manager said “you’re a f*****g mechanic, you fix things, figure out how to fix it” and then tried to laugh with me about how ridiculous it was.

I did end up working there for 2 years and that tech had issues with his computer until he left.

Same manager, different position, told me “when I see a customer walk through those doors I don’t see a face. I see a dollar sign. I see a paycheck.” I did not last much longer there.

anon , Kat Sazonova / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

29points

Mike F 1 month ago

I see a crook.

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#30

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged One time I wrote my resume in Latex, but I forgot one line break, so some of the text overflowed and was unreadable. The senior engineer interviewing me teasted me about it, deservedly so, since I listed Latex as one of my skills.

antilos_weorsick , Lukas / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

28points

arthbach 1 month ago

LaTeX is a markup language for typesetting documents. It's similar to HTML. (This is an extremely simple description, and is therefore not accurate.)

19points

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#31

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged I got told I was going to do an interview over chat, which turned out to be with an "AI chat bot", not an actual person. The chatbot asked me 30+ questions, and I answered them all with a fair amount of detail. Afterwards, I received an email that had analysis of all my answers and what it told them about my personality etc. Their analysis was complete garbage, and clearly seemed to work off trigger words rather than actual analysis of the entire response. They noted at the end of the document that it was the analysis and not my responses that would be sent to the company that was looking to fill the role....

villan , Matheus Bertelli / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

17points

Freya the Wanderer 1 month ago

When I interview, I want to speak with a genuine human being, not a blasted robot. Personality tests/assessments are 100% unrecycleable garbage. At least bulls--t can be used for fertilizer.

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#32

During the summer break for college, I applied for a general position at a Taco Bell in my small town of about 6000. (Yeah, this story will be great...)

Manager calls and sets up a time for an interview for about 12:30 on a Wednesday. I get there at 12:20 and they say to get a drink and we'll be with you shortly. 15 minutes later, they say that they're too busy, come back tomorrow about 1.

I go back the next day at about 12:50 and the manager says get something to drink and I'll be out there momentarily, we're just finishing up from our lunch rush. That was the last time I saw her. I sat, waiting in an empty dining room with a scarce few cars in the drive-thru, for two hours before I got a refill and left.

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Final score:

17points

Mike F 1 month ago

No free apple empanada? Dammit!

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#33

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged I went into an interview with a known gaming company, and the JavaScript I wrote as the interview process as a test was used on their production web site. I didn't get the job, but a friend said they used his CSS to style text boxes during his tech interview. None of the agencies here in LA blacklisted them after many candidates told them interviews were free work.

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Final score:

16points

two-sided llama 1 month ago

Huh?

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#34

Years ago I applied to a major hospital system to be their Director of Volunteer Services. The hospital had recently appointed a new CEO and he had created this position. I was mid-20’s, Masters degree in a related field, served on the board of the city’s nonprofit that coordinated volunteer services and had about 5 years of experience coordinator volunteers for my employer.

My first interview was the HR screen. It went perfectly! My second interview was with the VP who would be supervising this new position. Her first statement to me was “I don’t know why they are making me interview you. You are clearly not qualified.” I replied that I certainly did not want to waste her time and that if she’d prefer we could end the interview. She declined and said she’d go through the process because she felt obligated. So we spent the next 30 minutes with her asking me questions, me replying as professionally as possible knowing this was for show.

The next day the AA for the CEO called and asked me to come meet with him. I was shocked. I explained the interaction with the VP. The AA said the hospital was going through a culture shift and the CEO would still like to meet me.

I was offered the position by the CEO in that meeting. I took it and spent the next 6 months navigating the hell this VP created for me on a daily basis. It was like I was a child involved in bitter, divorcing parents. I took a new job shortly after and never looked back.

Final score:

16points

Just stopping by 1 month ago

Something about this feels fake?

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#35

Not me, but my husband was asked who he voted for and his personal feelings on his daughter's ability to, one day (she was only like... 7 months old at the time), get birth control without his permission. He told the guy that his personal opinions on such things didn't seem relevant to an accounting position. He didn't get offered the job.

Final score:

16points

Julie S 1 month ago

Why would his daughter need his permission to get birth control? It's none of his business.

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#36

I interviewed for a position at an agency that did comms and tech work. The office allowed pets and half way through the interview the owners dog came into the interview and bit me. The owner barely even acknowledged that it happened. For some reason I still finished the interview, but when they called me back for a final interview I declined. The guy acted like I was being completely unreasonable for not wanting to go back in.

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Final score:

15points

Lyoness 1 month ago

Puppers are great but not everyone wants one in their space during a work day. Personally I couldn't work in an office with them again, too much of a distraction. Cooing "Oos a gud boi!" over and over does eat into work time.

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#37

¿How old do you think I am?

Hmm.. I don't know... 40?

You have the job. I'm 60.

Wow...

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15points

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#38

Weird series of questions:

Interviewer (picks up phone): what’s your wife’s number.

Me: um, she’s in the US and it’s 2 am there. Why would you want to call my wife?

Interviewer: is your mother also in the US?

Me: yes. Why?

Interviewer: well, say I would call your wife or mother. What would would they say is your most annoying habit?

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Phobrek 1 month ago

"Giving their numbers out to sketchy weirdos?"

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#39

Completely technical interview. Then at the end of the interview, they asked me if I was a fruit or a vegetable, what would I be and why. I laughed, and asked them to repeat the question. They did, quite earnestly. I said I would be a granny smith apple, since I was a little tart, but once baked into a pie with other apples, I was delicious. It was a group interview over the phone. They murmured that it was a good answer and thanked me for my time. I did not get the job.

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Final score:

14points

Costa 1 month ago

I'd say I was a cucumber, so that if they seriously expect me to answer that they can use it to go f**k themself.

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#40

Had an interview with the CEO. We do a little intro but then he says that hes “not like other bosses”, he doesn’t ask questions during the interview, he expects the candidate to. So I play along and he’s impressed, brings in a VP so they can skip the 2nd interview. I leave, knowing I made a good impression but that I would never work there. I had an offer in my email before EOD but they lowballed me so I didn’t even counter.

He just wanted to feel special with someone letting him talk, which is the key to most hiring managers. But getting to know a candidate this way is ineffective af.

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13points

Seadog 1 month ago

A place my wife worked, candidates had to pass her office. All she did was see them walk by, no exchange or personal contact with these people in any way. When they left she would tell the director to hire or not hire them. Every time they hired one wife told them not to, it never worked out. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Director would never listen to my wife about anything. Her attitude has led to many workers leaving including my wife.

0points

#41

I was being interviewed by a certain cell phone service provider. The interview was going great, the manager was really nice and charismatic but the last question really stuck out to me. “If this company implemented a policy that you thought was morally wrong, would you still follow said policy?”. I answered no and I said that if I thought the policy was wrong on a moral level that I would likely quit the job. That’s when I was dismissed from the interview. Needless to say, I don’t use that provider anymore...

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13points

Kristal 1 month ago

I must know who this provider is

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#42

I had one call me to come in after a phone interview. So, I go in person. It was for an insurance sales position. I get to the office, walk in, and a lady greats me at the door. The office was just a hallway of other offices with doors, no open layout. I tell her I am there for an interview. Immediately, the sales manager (not the owner I am supposed to interviewer with slams his office door). I am thinking damn, it was 2 seconds convo, and we weren't even loud.

Then, the owner comes out of his office and takes me back to his office. We sit down, and the first thing he does is pull out a self-help book. Slams it on the desk and rambles for like 15 minutes about how the book turned his life around and all this stuff, not even asking me anything about me. Then he finished up and was like we are a team here (red flag word). Asks me how I handle negativity, and I'm like I generally ignore it and keep doing my work and try to stay positive. Then he is like how do you sell. I tell him, I like to get the information I need and make the phone call as smooth as possible and as short as possible. He then tells me that is wrong, I should keep the customer on the phone as long as I can. Like wtf?

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12points

Mike F 1 month ago

"Teamwork makes the dream work" my @ss!

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#43

Had a panel interview one time where each of the 5 people interviewing me had a very different idea of what I was interviewing for. The manager asked me, "after hearing more about the position, do you think this position should be full-time or part-time?" They even asked me what I thought the position title should be and what the pay should be. I said I thought I was interviewing for a full-time communications job. Needless to say I tried to wrap it up as quickly as possible. Never heard back from them.

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12points

Lyoness 1 month ago

If they can't even figure out what they're hiring you for you don't want to work there. Bullet dodged.

1point

#44

It was an in-person interview with the tech support manager and the Vice President of a small local ISP.

It was going well, or so I thought. About 20 minutes into the interview, the VP said they'd be right back, and they both left the conference room. 10, 15, 20 minutes go by, and I'm just sitting there waiting. I get up and go ask the receptionist if they're coming back, and she said she doesn't know but she'll go ask. She comes back and tells me she doesn't know where they are.

I give it another 25 minutes, and then I go back to the receptionist and let her know that I'm guessing that I failed the interview, and let her know I'm leaving.

An hour later the VP calls me and asks where I am, which was *an hour and 45 minutes* after they left me sitting alone in the conference room. He asked me to come back to finish the interview, because they wanted to hire me. I asked why they left me in there so long, and he replied they had an "emergency" client call to take care of. I took the job. Like an idiot.

Months later they laid me off xmas week because the guy who had quit wanted his old job back.

Final score:

12points

Mike F 1 month ago

Wonder why? Must have been a glutton for punishment.

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#45

"Do you have a girlfriend? Why did you broke up with your old girlfriend? "

In a technical interview with a few senior employees of the company, when I replied " I don't see how this is related to the job I'm applying for" they all got defensive and were like " For example, we are all married, we're asking if you have any social problems"

I was seriously confused and still unemployed afterwards.

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Victoria Silvas 6 days ago

AAAAAAARRRGGGGHHHHHH JUST GET THE LIVING HELL OUT OF THERE AND LEAVE THAT B***H!!!!!

0points

#46

Not me, but wife was asked if she knew how to bake... This was for an accounting job.

Apparently the office is pretty big on 'treat days', so they wanted to know if she'd bring stuff

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12points

Papa 1 month ago

Priorities are important. At my job a few of us play dominoes at lunch. I have been known to encourage people to ask applicants if they play dominoes during the interview (they didn't).

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#47

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged Was asked what I was doing the year between graduating HS and starting college, which told me they hadn't bothered to read that I was a foreign exchange student in Ceuta, Spain from 1990 to 1991 so I just told them I was in a war zone, which was kinda the truth.

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11points

HangryHangryHippo 1 month ago

Just in case someone is confused about Ceuta, it's an autonomous Spanish city geographically located in Africa.

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#48

Most of my adult, "professional" interviews have been pretty normal, downright cliche even.

I'll never forget one of my first interviews as a teenager, though. It was at a Blockbuster video (yes I'm that old). The manager took my handwritten job application and sat me down in his little grungy office in the back of the building. He didn't bother asking about my previous experience or anything. The vast majority of the interview was him presenting some sort of candy or snack and saying "sell this to me." I got the impression they had a massive overstock of candy and other movie snacks, and that was his only concern at the time.

I didn't get the job.

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11points

Roy Assin 1 month ago

This one should get more upvotes

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#49

They asked what's important in customer service when dealing with stakeholders and high end clients.

I said "setting expectations and overperforming based on that"

Somehow, one of the interviewers brought up his ex and how he did that but she still broke up with him.

The other 2 interviewers were shocked and I said that sucks.

Got the job cuz I think the other 2 felt awful for me.

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Final score:

11points

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#50

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged I wasn't expecting a multiple position, and multiple people interview.... I was told I wasn't picked because I didn't make enough eye contact... which making eye contact with multiple people overlapping questions was difficult so...

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Final score:

11points

Lyoness 1 month ago

Group interviews should be illegal.

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#51

Interviewer: “I see you graduated from [school] in 2013. Did you know a Ms. Jane Doe?”

Me: “Oh yeah, I know her! She was in my first year classes.”

Interviewer: “Ms. Doe interviewed yesterday. Why should we hire you over her?”

I basically responded with “You should hire us both, ideally.” Then I said why I’d be good for the job overall.

Neither of us got the job.

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Final score:

11points

Pencil McGovern 1 month ago (edited)

"You should hire us both, ideally." I'd never ask someone that (idiotic and mean-spirited) question but that answer tells me OP is a team player, secure in their qualifications and an optimist. I'd hire them on the spot.

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#52

I was interviewing a potential employee with my supervisor and the last question he asked her was “How are you with dealing with....stupid people?” It was completely out of left field and informal based on the questions we were previously asking. You could tell the question threw her but she answered. And she ended up getting the job.

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11points

Julie S 1 month ago

"I seem to be doing alright with you"

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#53

My friend had an interview at Panera which ended up being three separate interviews and she said they made them sit in a circle and talk about the texture of bread and how it made them feel....

Final score:

11points

Papa 1 month ago

I thought Panera was a restaurant. This sounds like some kind of cult.

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#54

30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged You obviously have a great resume. Why haven’t you gotten another offer yet? Is something wrong with you?

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Final score:

11points

Scott Rackley 1 month ago

"Can you point to where on the resume it says how many offers I have?"

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#55

Did you have a close relationship with your father? I'm a woman (engineer) and this was a totally out of left field question.

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11points

Glenn Cuneo 1 month ago

"Well that's none of your f*****g business"-- you know, the standard answer.

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#56

Very low stakes job while in school...

I was asked a question and my reply was "great question, I asked that one last year when I was on the interview panel".

Crazy was they were filming a police/SWAT tv show outside our building during one set of interviews so some poor guy had to concentrate while there was a fake riot going on outside the window.

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10points

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#57

"What is your opinion on wealthy people?"

I was 22, fresh out of college, and my first interview was working at a private, small bank. I wasn't expecting that question.

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10points

Julie S 1 month ago

"one day I hope to be one"

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#58

I woke up early to get my exes car out of the snow so i could get to the interview but it was practically frozen solid. I literally call the place (Ann Taylor Loft) and they’re like ok. It ended up being so bad I needed 4-5 to dig/push while I hit the gas. When I got there the interview started normally, until one interviewer decides to start berating me about leaving early/nonstop harassing me about getting there late. It was so incredibly rude and invasive I thought about walking out (I was younger, if it happened now they would’ve had a problem lol) but I stuck it out anyway. It was probably the only place I ended up emailing HR to remove/pull my application for.

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9points

SirWriteALot 1 month ago

All I understand is snow interview something ... what happened?

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#59

I was being interviewed for a IT Helpdesk job at a bank a number of years ago and was asked "Why are manhole covers round?". I was later told after answering wrong that it was to see if the person would say "I don't know" (Correct answer) or just try and BS their way out of it.

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Final score:

9points

David 1 month ago

A round manhole can not fit down the hole no matter which way you turn it. A square manhole could. Easier to set in place since they are always lined up. Probably stronger. Those are three I came up with before googling - and they are correct but there are a couple of other reasons. So, "I don't know" is not the "correct" answer.

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#60

Why did you say good morning when you know perfectly well it's afternoon

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8points

Jane Doe 1 month ago

I had a boss tell me to think about if you've had lunch yet, then say good morning or afternoon. I took it to heart straight out of college. Came in handy one time, when I got a the same question as OP. I said, "sorry, haven't had lunch yet, so I'm behind." Got an, "oh, well, then." Why do people ask this? You deserve to have the awkwardness returned. Just trying to acknowledge you exist.

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30 Job Interview Stories That Range From Hilarious To Totally Unhinged Interviewed for a Ruby/Rails programming job. The lead developer was Indian and she had a thick accent so that made things worse. Everything was going fine until she asked me "What do you know about gem?"

And I said "Ok gem, sure. What about them?" Ruby gems are just what Ruby devs call software libraries.

She repeated, "Tell me about Gem."

I said "Ok, which one?"

"Gem."

"Um...what gem?"

"So you don't know gems?" Then she went on to explain what gems were. I was so frustrated that I cut her off with a bit of attitude and said "I know what gems are, I'm asking what about gems do you want to know about?"

It just went downhill from there and needless to say I didn't get the job and, while I was sad at first, I'm now glad I didn't.

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Final score:

7points

XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 month ago (edited)

Idk that I'm with the OP on this one. If the interviewer is asking about "Gem" and you are uncertain which one, but know what they are, why not simply give the definition of a gem so the interviewer knows you understand what they are? OP could have talked about Rubygem.org, and then said "Is there anything specific you would like to know about a certain gem like Nokogiri, or Rubocop, or linecook, or Ahoy?" There are literally thousands of gems out there, and it seems clear to me that the interviewer only wanted to know that the OP was aware of the concept of gems. Instead I feel like the OP got wrapped up in the interviewer's "thick accent" and assumed she wasn't asking a clear question. She was; OP overthought it.

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#62

I had a interview for a logistics company here in Pittsburgh. After 3 interviews memorizing all 50 states for a states test,math test,and company knowledge test. I passed all of them with a score above 90% and they still said no to me.

I got let go from my last job because of things out of my control. Forgot to mention the also wanted references.....I guess none of my references vouched for me.. it's been really hard to get interviews after being laid off. I do have a 6 months emergency fund while working and deciding to restart my marketing agency again.

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Final score:

7points

David 1 month ago (edited)

Why the hell would you be expected to pass a "states test"? I did that for something like 7th or 8th grade geography. I'm retired in my 60s and have never needed it since then. A decent working knowledge of our states is good (and I have it) but even before internet I knew how to use a map.

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#63

My funniest experience in an interview, was forgetting which interview this was. I can't remember what gave it away, but they caught on to this and asked.

Final score:

6points

#64

I had just gotten out of the military and I was interviewing for a job at Purina with this middle aged guy. I didn't have much in my military background that was applicable on the technical side, so I was trying to talk to my other skills and experiences. One of the things I did as an AWACS crewman was fly escorts for the president. I thought that sounded pretty impressive so I brought it up and kinda bragged a bit

Hoo boy.

This guy starts going off about how I "don't want to hear his opinion on the president" (guess who it was at the time...) and all that b******t.

Glad I didn't end up working there. Would've hated smelling like dog food every day anyway.

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#65

Oh man I got a few. But I'll share the one that sticks out the most.

Rewind to 2014. I'm working as an attorney at a boutique law firm that limits its practice to overtime and minimum wage claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act. I want a bit more upward mobility and and more diverse area of practice, so I'm on the hunt for a new firm.

I score an interview with a more general law firm located in a swanky local city next to a high end luxury outdoor mall. Real estate here is all easily in the millions, even for a s****y 2/1 house. But it's closer to where I live and right near a stop on our county's above ground public train.

Initially I was expecting an early morning interview, but this firm surprised me: 5 pm, dead center in the middle of rush hour. Rush hour in a major metropolitan area. While I could certainly use the train to get there from my house, I would be coming from work, alllllllll the way on the beach, which was far away from any rail stop. And they were insistent on this time.

No matter. I managed to come up with a good excuse, had all my clients taken care of, and hit the road early, successfully walking into the hopeful new firm's office exactly on time. So I checked in with the front desk, and the kind secretary directed me to wait outside. So I obliged.

And I waited. And I waited. And I waited. And I waited. 45 to 50 minutes pass, and the secretary came out to go home. She spots me, I shoot back a nice smile, and she realizes that I was never called in. She apologizes profusely and says the firm is real busy, but she'll go back inside to get someone to assist me.

About a couple more minutes pass, and an attorney comes out to greet me. He directs me back inside to his office and we sit down.

"So, I_count_to_firetruck, I'm sorry but the managing partner is busy right now. You can wait here for him. If you would like to know any questions about the firm you're welcome to ask me."

I ask some basic stuff, and he eventually gets back to work. I pull out my smart phone and read some news waiting for the guy.

Another 45-50 minutes pass. Yet another guy comes and herds me to yet another office. This man was clearly younger than me.

"Hi! I'm the managing partner's son who works as a paralegal. I'm going to law school right now but I know a few things about the firm if you wanna ask! My dad will be ready soon."

I try to make small talk with the guy but to be honest I'm a little weirded out at this point. The firm was INSISTENT on 5 pm and so far it was nearly 7 pm and I still hadn't interviewed yet.

And lo and behold... ANOTHER NEAR HOUR PASSES AND THE MANAGING PARTNER FINALLY MATERIALIZES. At this point we're pushing 8 pm for a 5 pm interview.

The managing partner takes me back to his office and sits me down. He looks over my resume and tells me briefly he was aware of my then-current firm. Now, before I go any further, I should mention my current firm was a minority owned and run operation: the minority being a very peculiar brand of messianic Orthodox Judaism. No, I am not aware the specifics but I need to mention this for what's about to happen.

After looking at my resume and referencing my firm, the managing partner comments (and I'm paraphrasing from a decade old memory here):

"I'm always impressed by the tenacity of the Jewish people. Your employer can bleed blood from a stone and make it rain where the well is dry."

I know he meant it as a compliment, but couching it around my boss' faith was a... Weird choice. But then the direction changes.

"That being said: why should I hire you? Let's be honest: your current firm is a f*****g mill and your resume is a piece of s**t"

At this point I'm a littl slack jawed. I don't really understand what's happening. It's not that I think my resume was some bastion of excellence, but it's more... Why are we here? Why bother to offer an interview? Why bother to make me drag myself down here? Why waste your own firm's resources?

Then he continues:

"But you know what? I see a diamond in the rough here. Why don't you send me a sample of your work tonight, and we can see if we can take things from there?"

And with that, the interview was over.

No, I clearly did not get the job. But would I have accepted? Also no.

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michael reid 1 month ago

Long as owt

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#66

"If you could be any of the original 150 Pokemon, which one would you choose?"

I said Ditto, because I could be any of them, but that was a lie. If I could be any Pokemon, I would be Pidgeot.

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6points

Skogsrået 1 month ago

Snorlax all the way! Big, fat and fluffy, reminds me of Totoro.

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Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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As a Visual Editor at Bored Panda, I indulge in the joy of curating delightful content, from adorable pet photos to hilarious memes, all while nurturing my wanderlust and continuously seeking new adventures and interests—sometimes thrilling, sometimes daunting, but always exciting!

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Lyoness 1 month ago

I once went to an interview where I spent the first 15 minutes calming the interviewer down because she said she was "too nervous" to start. Once she'd relaxed the interview seemed to go well and she said so too, then dropped the bomb: They already had an internal candidate they were going to hire, they'd only had me come in to give the interviewer some experience. I was livid.

5points

Brian Hawley 1 month ago

I once interviewed for a job where after beating around the bush for a while the interviewer basically hinted that he and his friends were robbing the company and would I go along with them. I thought it was a test and said no. Didn’t get the job. And it wasn’t a test. Read in the paper a few months later that they had all been jailed.

4points

Lowrider 56 1 month ago

I just recently found out that my employers daughter stole 9 million dollars from the company. Unsurprisingly, she's not in jail has never been charged. She has singlehandedly brought the company to the brink of collapsing.

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Justin Tyme 1 month ago

An interviewer asked me "If you could be any kind of cow, would you be a chocolate cow, a vanilla cow, or a strawberry cow?" I answered "I'm not going to play this" and walked out.

3points

Hakitosama 1 month ago

"I'm a country girl and if you breed those kind of sh*ts here I'm out !"

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Justin Tyme 1 month ago

I applied for a job at a large healthcare organization. The one and only time I got a response from them was when they sent an email telling me I was not being considered for a job because I didn't show up for the scheduled job interview. And I thought "Uhh, what!?"

2points

Justin Tyme 1 month ago

An interviewer asked me how old I was (which is an illegal job interview question in my country). I asked if my age was relevant to the job. The interviewer told me it was not. Then I asked "So then why did you ask me?" I did not get hired.

2points

StrangeOne 1 month ago

I used to have a "warehouse" sales job. It was basically hawking cheap junk to anyone on the street, and even soliciting to businesses. Once I was done with training with someone, which was only a couple days, I was set out on my own. We were supposed to walk to our areas, which could be 30 miles. (Wish I was exaggerating.) Businesses in the immediate area were well acquainted with these solicitors. Turn over was high. Some guy in his car stopped to tell me to quit, as he sd that job made him homeless and broke. Since I made only $20 in that week I believed him. A couple other businesses I went into, just to buy something for myself and not sell to them (I was never comfortable doing that.) the owners would offer me a job. One mgr asked if I had a boyfriend. I declined this offer despite it being an auto shop that did decals and whatnot. Apparently the guys there hit on single females.

1point

michael reid 1 month ago

I went for an interview once where the guy just talked about all the reasons his marriage broke down and all the different effects of his divorce. I started talking about my experience briefly during a gap in the conversation but it quickly turned back to the subject of his personal relationships. Anyway I got the job and 5 years later I'm still here.

1point

Seadog 1 month ago

I've had 2 interviews that didn't go smooth. First one used recruiters. Not sure what their issues were other than being racist as hell. I was applying for full time and had years of experience in the field. Another applicant only wanted part time, nights, as he was a nurse. Yep, gave him full time and me part time. All worked out though because he quit in no time flat and the store we trained at saw enough in me after a couple weeks that they gave me their full time opening. I eventually became manager. That company stopped using recruiters shortly thereafter.

0points

Seadog 1 month ago

The second was a competitor that had been after me for years. We're a small town (entire population for the county/city is 55k) competition is fierce (13 stores within 8 miles of each other not including outside delivery companies in the field). I get fed up with BS where I am and decide to meet with them. They took me to lunch, I told them what I could bring to the table in terms of sales and what I need to make it happen in terms of staff. They come back with less money and nowhere close to the personnel and payroll to cover the job AND.... me and the rest of the commercial sales team have to also cover in store sales. And this folks is why that company's commercial sales suffer and I told them so. Rather than staff the store appropriately, they just used the commercial team as store staff. So I went to another competitor and 70% of my customers followed. When you have this much competition in an area this size, people don't buy from brands, they buy from people, that made me leader

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Mark Edwards 1 month ago

That is par for the interviewing.

0points

whiterabbit 1 month ago

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0points

Chich 1 month ago

Had an interview where they flew me in and the head guy decided he had to be on the panel. Not a problem except several times during the interview his secretary came and got him for phone calls etc. The other people kept it going but had to backtrack when he returned. I did get the job and it was great but he was one of the most out of touch people I have reported to.

0points

ZGutr 1 month ago

Once when we took interviews, the door opened for the next candidate and some voice in my head shouted "NO! NEVER, NOT EVER" After the interview I told the team what happened ..... we all had experienced the same. No clue how or why, but all felt an instant NO at first sight.

0points

Freya the Wanderer 1 month ago

Several years ago I took part in a group interview that later turned into bait-and-switch. They had three positions open, the first two of which sounded great, the last not-so-hot. I can't recall details, unfortunately. Though the first position sounded the best, I preferred the second one and expressed my interest in that one. A few days later they called and offered me - the third position, the humdrum one. I said no thanks. I can't recall the name of the company, unfortunately.

0points

Lyoness 1 month ago

I once went to an interview where I spent the first 15 minutes calming the interviewer down because she said she was "too nervous" to start. Once she'd relaxed the interview seemed to go well and she said so too, then dropped the bomb: They already had an internal candidate they were going to hire, they'd only had me come in to give the interviewer some experience. I was livid.

5points

Brian Hawley 1 month ago

I once interviewed for a job where after beating around the bush for a while the interviewer basically hinted that he and his friends were robbing the company and would I go along with them. I thought it was a test and said no. Didn’t get the job. And it wasn’t a test. Read in the paper a few months later that they had all been jailed.

4points

Lowrider 56 1 month ago

I just recently found out that my employers daughter stole 9 million dollars from the company. Unsurprisingly, she's not in jail has never been charged. She has singlehandedly brought the company to the brink of collapsing.

0points

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Justin Tyme 1 month ago

An interviewer asked me "If you could be any kind of cow, would you be a chocolate cow, a vanilla cow, or a strawberry cow?" I answered "I'm not going to play this" and walked out.

3points

Hakitosama 1 month ago

"I'm a country girl and if you breed those kind of sh*ts here I'm out !"

0points

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Justin Tyme 1 month ago

I applied for a job at a large healthcare organization. The one and only time I got a response from them was when they sent an email telling me I was not being considered for a job because I didn't show up for the scheduled job interview. And I thought "Uhh, what!?"

2points

Justin Tyme 1 month ago

An interviewer asked me how old I was (which is an illegal job interview question in my country). I asked if my age was relevant to the job. The interviewer told me it was not. Then I asked "So then why did you ask me?" I did not get hired.

2points

StrangeOne 1 month ago

I used to have a "warehouse" sales job. It was basically hawking cheap junk to anyone on the street, and even soliciting to businesses. Once I was done with training with someone, which was only a couple days, I was set out on my own. We were supposed to walk to our areas, which could be 30 miles. (Wish I was exaggerating.) Businesses in the immediate area were well acquainted with these solicitors. Turn over was high. Some guy in his car stopped to tell me to quit, as he sd that job made him homeless and broke. Since I made only $20 in that week I believed him. A couple other businesses I went into, just to buy something for myself and not sell to them (I was never comfortable doing that.) the owners would offer me a job. One mgr asked if I had a boyfriend. I declined this offer despite it being an auto shop that did decals and whatnot. Apparently the guys there hit on single females.

1point

michael reid 1 month ago

I went for an interview once where the guy just talked about all the reasons his marriage broke down and all the different effects of his divorce. I started talking about my experience briefly during a gap in the conversation but it quickly turned back to the subject of his personal relationships. Anyway I got the job and 5 years later I'm still here.

1point

Seadog 1 month ago

I've had 2 interviews that didn't go smooth. First one used recruiters. Not sure what their issues were other than being racist as hell. I was applying for full time and had years of experience in the field. Another applicant only wanted part time, nights, as he was a nurse. Yep, gave him full time and me part time. All worked out though because he quit in no time flat and the store we trained at saw enough in me after a couple weeks that they gave me their full time opening. I eventually became manager. That company stopped using recruiters shortly thereafter.

0points

Seadog 1 month ago

The second was a competitor that had been after me for years. We're a small town (entire population for the county/city is 55k) competition is fierce (13 stores within 8 miles of each other not including outside delivery companies in the field). I get fed up with BS where I am and decide to meet with them. They took me to lunch, I told them what I could bring to the table in terms of sales and what I need to make it happen in terms of staff. They come back with less money and nowhere close to the personnel and payroll to cover the job AND.... me and the rest of the commercial sales team have to also cover in store sales. And this folks is why that company's commercial sales suffer and I told them so. Rather than staff the store appropriately, they just used the commercial team as store staff. So I went to another competitor and 70% of my customers followed. When you have this much competition in an area this size, people don't buy from brands, they buy from people, that made me leader

0points

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Mark Edwards 1 month ago

That is par for the interviewing.

0points

whiterabbit 1 month ago

This comment has been deleted.

0points

Chich 1 month ago

Had an interview where they flew me in and the head guy decided he had to be on the panel. Not a problem except several times during the interview his secretary came and got him for phone calls etc. The other people kept it going but had to backtrack when he returned. I did get the job and it was great but he was one of the most out of touch people I have reported to.

0points

ZGutr 1 month ago

Once when we took interviews, the door opened for the next candidate and some voice in my head shouted "NO! NEVER, NOT EVER" After the interview I told the team what happened ..... we all had experienced the same. No clue how or why, but all felt an instant NO at first sight.

0points

Freya the Wanderer 1 month ago

Several years ago I took part in a group interview that later turned into bait-and-switch. They had three positions open, the first two of which sounded great, the last not-so-hot. I can't recall details, unfortunately. Though the first position sounded the best, I preferred the second one and expressed my interest in that one. A few days later they called and offered me - the third position, the humdrum one. I said no thanks. I can't recall the name of the company, unfortunately.

0points

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