Interviewed someone while his mom was with him and answering most of the questions on his behalf.

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A guy stood over me and threatened to beat the s**t out of me. I am a female 5 foot 6 and he was at least 6 foot 6. Obviously on drugs. It’s scared the heck out of me. It came out of nowhere.

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Brought in her toddler with her.

Wore sweat pants, slippers, and shower cap.

Smelled strongly of cats.

Didn't know how many quarters were in a dollar.

Hand written resume.

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Used to manage a busy successful restaurant, during an interview applicant told me that he didn't really need to work for money but that he was hoping to land a job because he wanted to nail some of the waitresses.

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Girl showed up to an interview in fuzzy slippers and flannel pajama bottoms. She then proceeded to talk c**p about her current employer in at least 3 of the interview questions.

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I had a resume submitted for a line cook job with "microwave experience" listed as a skill.

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A guy went on a tirade about how most people don't like him because he speaks the truth, hinting he was some political sage. The job was outreach/marketing.

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I work in a bar as a manager and I've seen some doozys:


- I can't even count the number people who approach me while hammered off their asses drinking in the bar who want me to hire them. Many of them brag how they just got out of jail and could kick all the bouncers asses or even mine. One guy that stands out told me how he went to jail for armed robbery and aggravated assault ,was recently released, and "needed a job where he could be allowed to drink and fight whomever he wanted". I declined to hire him to which he said was my loss. Later that night he got arrested for something outside the fast food restaurant next door.

- some lady came in and applied for her son. She had a resume for him and even filled out an application and requested an interview. I asked why he didn't come in himself and she flat out said he had no drive to work and had to have everything done for him. I thanked her for her time, wished her well and promptly 110'd that resume. Yikes.

- had a person that was barred for life for being a huge piece of s**t and a thief come in looking for a job. The only reason he wasn't in jail or dead was that we didn't have a lot of info on him. He filled out an application in full. We immediately forwarded the info to police. I've only seen him walkby once since, but never come in.

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I’m not a hiring manager but I helped interview applicants to residency when I was in training. I mainly asked questions applicable to residency but I always threw in one slightly off the wall question to see how they would handle it. My go to’s were “high heels or flats and why?” or “debate the pros and cons of bow ties vs neck ties.” It didn’t matter what they said, but rather how they responded. If they laughed and then answered or even just thought for a minute before a response, it was fine. But sometimes they’d get flustered, angry, or start sweating because they weren’t sure how to answer or what I was looking for. Those were the red flags. Gotta be able to roll with the punches. If you’re getting stressed out about a question on shoes or ties, I don’t want to know how you’re gonna react when a patient starts hemorrhaging.

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Someone came in for an interview wearing cartoon character slippers.

Email addresses on resumes that are not suitable for work. Reference to drug use and sex are not suitable for job searching - especially for a corporate office.

Someone came in wearing jeans for an interview. The position was 100% suit and tie. When I scheduled interviews I always mentioned business professional attire.

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Had an applicant in for an interview for a pretty specialized role which requires a specific uni major. She was a foreign student getting her master in it in my country, with a bachelor in something else where she came from.

On being asked what made her choose said major, she said something along the lines of "it sucked the least", meaning "it sucked the least for getting a visa".

So far the interview has been so-so, but good enough to warrant a trial day. After that, it was over, though.

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Interviewer: "And what do you think the greatest asset you could bring to the company would be if we hired you?"

Interviewee: "Hire me and find out."

He was drastically under qualified for an entry position and only being interviewed as a favor to a higher up. When the interviewer ended the interview there and informed him we wouldn't be taking it further as he wasn't a good fit, he lodged three formal complaints he'd been discriminated against.

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A woman shared a story where she described her utter disgust at having to stop to let a transgender kid use a bathroom, misgendering the kid the whole time. When asked if she felt comfortable using the person's preferred pronouns, she said derisively, "You have to now!" This was the story she chose to the question of how she works with diverse populations.

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When they can't answer basic questions on subjects they say they're experts in.

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Corporate job.

Candidate admitted to making up data.

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Had someone come in late for the interview. One of the questions was why they left their last job. Answer was ran over my supervisor in the parking lot. It was and accident. Honest. Job was to drive the company truck.

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Not the hiring manager but was one of the input on a hiring decision.

Context for those of you who don't know, for software engineer, part of the interview is to give you a coding challenge to solve.

We gave one that we didn't necessarily expect you to solve in the allotted time but rather we were interested in seeing how you approach difficult problems and what concepts from computer science you would draw from.


This one person we had really high hopes for straight up cheated on it and made it super obvious she did.

She just typed the code as if she was reading it off of another screen. The code just happens to compile and be 100 percent correct on the first try(we didn't have a compiler and we weren't gonna hold it against you if you gave us syntax errors).

And when we asked her to explain it, she obviously didn't know how it worked. She would fake numbers and fake the results of each step and didn't understand the fundamental reason why the code solution she ripped off of leetcode worked. Couldn't describe the run time and space time properly.

And funny enough after the interview, we ran it to a compiler and it did work as previously stated. We then googled the leet code solution and found it was the exact same minus a handful of variable name changes.

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Applicant was a senior in college. Front and center on his resume was his major, expected graduation date, and the line "GPA: 2.0."

I get that grades aren't everything, but if you're getting C's, at least have the common sense to not advertise it so prominently.

Edit: To clarify, I was not the hiring manager - I was the technical advisor helping to sift resumes and do interviews. We were recruiting at a college campus and doing callbacks for interviews on-site.

Your GPA (and frankly, your college degree) are only one point of reference to use when measuring competency. I have worked with skilled people who were self-taught, and I have worked with master's graduates that couldn't their way out of a paper bag.

But a resume is about selling yourself, especially when you are applying for an entry-level position with little to no work experience. Don't give a hiring manager a reason to toss your resume after reading the first bullet point!

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They bring someone with them to the interview.

They won't take the job unless you hire their friend too.

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I once had a guy bring along his wife. I thought she was just going to wait on him until the interview was over, but no she wanted to be apart of the interview just as much as he was.

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I had a girl misspell her own name (spelled two different ways on same resume) She also clearly used a free resume builder and then copied and pasted into notepad. There were a ton of other problems. I tried to convince my coworkers to bring her in and we would fix her a resume. They said it would be too embarrassing and mean. I just wanted to help someone get a job.

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I've had to hire two positions in my department (IT in a hospital system) in the past several months. Some highlights:

- Guy couldn't get WebEx to work on his end. Not a good look for a systems analyst position.
- Woman lived over an hour away for a PC tech position that would require on-call duties. When I asked how they would deal with after-hours calls living so far away (often require physically coming back in), she said she had family she could stay with that were still 30+ miles away.
- Guy gets on WebEx for a virtual interview. His camera is on, but all I see is an orange square. The voice on the other end sounds like a woman. Afterward, he emailed me every two days asking for an update about the position. I ended up finding him on social media. He was a furry that did not have a single picture of his human face posted anywhere.

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Was interviewing for a web developer job and the told me he'd hacked the local community College site while he was there. He wasn't hired.

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I always like to ask about strengths & weaknesses, but I frame it as “What’s one area you feel like you could improve at?”

Had a guy think for a few minutes before telling me “none”

Ok Superman

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Smell. Bad body odor and Tequila are the only two I can think of right now that I experienced.

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Hit on the receptionist

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Had a guy come in that I swore I had met before but I just couldnt put my finger on how. He began to brag about suing a former employer. All of a sudden I remembered who he was: dude was a customer of the business who sued one of my co-workers over some custom requested work. I ended the interview and tossed his resume in the trash.

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They are more concerned about the harassment policies than the actual job

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I’ve interviewed / worked with multiple people who asked in their interview “what’s the fastest anyone has been promoted here? I want to break that record”. I’m not the ultimate decision maker on these things but all those people turned out to be complete duds so that’s now a kiss of death in any interview I’m a part of.

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**Take these seriously, hiring managers do:**

ON A RESUME

•Tons of misspellings and awful grammar. Not just 2 or 3. I'm talking 3rd grade level grammar that basically says "I haven't bothered to pay attention in school for most of my life, but gimme money yo."

•More than 3 jobs in 2 or 3 years. This means one or more of these: you aren't serious about a career or getting your life together; you're impossible to work with and the problems you bring to the table *far* outweigh any positive qualities you might bring to the team; you have a serious issue with authority.

IN AN INTERVIEW

•You don't have reliable transportation. I know this seems trite, but it isn't. You can't work if you won't get your a*s to work.

•You're applying for a position that is so far beyond your qualifications that you literally had no idea it was beyond your qualifications when you applied. You might have high aspirations and that rocks, but many bosses now can't afford to take huge risks on underqualified applicants.

•You're constantly looking around, say UMM a lot, shrug all the time, don't take things seriously. If that's just you, okay. But you might not get hired. Be a more attentive you for ten minutes, chief.

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having a random 1.5 year break of doing nothing and not addressing it. apparently they went to prison for a year and a half and didn't mention it. (we later learned after the backround check)

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Copy and paste resume and cover letters, I don't mind them as they are, it's just most people don't proofread. I would interview someone that makes a resume/cover letter that isn't "right" than someone that uses a obvious copy and paste

Another one was a guy I was interviewing looked good on paper but had to be one of the most negative people I've met. Be positive, anyone that has experience knows how much trouble a negative force can destroy in a good work place

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A resume with a lot of obvious spelling errors. There's no excused for not running it through grammarly or some other free spellcheck program. A lack of effort put into the resume signals to me the amount of effort likely to be put into the job.

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I had a Zoom interview with a candidate who was rolling cigarettes.

--WaitingForMyTime-- , cottonbro Report

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Not me but a friend got threatened during a phone interview and he flagged him, the General Manager stepped in and hired the guy anyway.

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This one applicant wrote a 4 page cover letter. Yes, that’s right...4 single spaced pages! He was not hired. Mostly for wasting the hiring committee’s time with that insane letter. Like what are you trying to overcompensate for?

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For the question, can we contact your previous manager? A woman wrote in, it’s complicated.

It’s not. The answer is no. But this was definitely a red flag.

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I once interviewed a girl for a part time job at a buy/sell/trade videogame store (independent, not Gamestop.)


I'm a very laid back manager, I like to make sure people are comfortable. About half way through the interview this girl has a full on meltdown. Sweating, crying, can't string two words together. More than anything I just felt bad for her. She did not end up getting the job.

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Bait and switch on the job. It wasn't software development, it was about scanning rejected loans, figuring out why they were spit out, and getting them to work. I was told that employees usually worked 50 hours a week on a salary.

Noped out of that one.

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I had a guy scheduled for a 5:00pm interview at a retail job. He called and said he was going to be running late because of his other job, understandable.

I got a call that he arrived so I went to an area where we have some tables to get started. He wasn’t there. I asked my other employees where he went and they pointed towards the bathroom. Again, understandable.

A good 10 minutes to by and he’s not out yet. I asked one of my coworkers to go into the bathroom and see if everything is ok.

My coworker and the guy for the interview came walking out and met me at the table. He had about half a dozen pieces of TP on his face. He tried to rush in and shave and cut the hell out of his face.

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Not really a red flag but was interviewing a guy and he introduced himself than said before we start that he needed to use the bathroom. Like 25 minutes later comes back in and away we go - dude went for a dump! Epic.

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During an interview I said, " why don't you go a head and give me a quick run down of your career." Then the guy says "well don't you have my resume, it's on there." In a rude dismissive voice. I stood up right there and walked out. He was confused and continued to sit in the office I was interviewing him in for another 10 mins before he got the hint and left.

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If you have had a bunch of jobs for a couple months at a time, don’t list them. Not going to waste my time training folks to leave when they are trained. Exceptions are internships or seasonal work.

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