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When the internet talks about recruiting, we often hear the applicants’ perspective, criticizing out-of-touch hiring managers who make the whole process unnecessarily exhausting and ghost them the first chance they get.
So, after a Reddit thread emerged where people conducting job interviews shared the wildest things they witnessed candidates say or do, we decided to show you the other side of the coin as well.
From entitled demands to shameless lies, these moments explain why some meetings end before they really begin.
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#1
I interviewed a middle aged woman who was an abject jerk to my junior project manager who I typically forced to do first level interviews, while I watched in silence, to see how they conducted interviews and how they handled themselves. It was a way for me to teach them without cramping their style, and also for me to see what their style even was in the first place.
The woman was a solid 10+ years older than my junior PM. As soon as the call started, she started negging on my JPM immediately. "*Oh wow... you're still a baby! I wasn't expecting to be interviewed by my own child!"*. That was strike 1, and personally, I would have ended the interview right there. However, this was a training exercise for my junior, and they opted to push through it. A few sentences later, the woman made a remark along the lines of "I've forgotten more about project management than you've probably experienced in your career thus far..." Again, I was eager to cancel the interview, but my JPM seemed to breeze right through it.
Where I intervened, immediately, was when the woman requested to speak to someone with more seniority about the company so that they could ask me questions personally. My JPM tried to gently say "Ma'am, that's what the next phase of the interview process will be. This is the preliminary call to get a feel for your background, your personality, and your familiarity with our toolsets." The woman responded with "Honey, listen, I know how to use the tools, and I don't think I need to justify my experience to you."
At this point, I entered the call. She immediately tried to greet me with a faux sense of warmness, and I just cut right through the bull. "Hello. I'd just like to let you know that we'll be stopping the interview at this point. I've been listening in to the call, and not only is your conduct incredibly disrespectful, but your conduct isn't welcome on my team, or anywhere within this company. Best of luck in your search."
The most satisfying moment was when she started to try and say something, and I just ended the call mid-sentence. I don't have time for that, and I'm not going to expose people under my care to that sort of toxic nonsense.
Crystalwitch60 7 hours ago
Not so sure on the wording , I typically force , but the rest bloody perfect , oh to have seen that stuck up biatchs face 😂and very nicely handled jpm n boss ,
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#2
Someone was watching their nephew due to a family thing, and her house wasn't equipped for kids, so 'please be patient'. Toddler was all over the place and she was doing her best to manage the situation, she knocked it out of the park, keeping on task and speaking nicely to him. She wasn't the most qualified, but the most human, and I hired her, and don't regret it. She has paid back that choice many times, proving her demeanor was exactly as she demonstrated.
Sorry, not a negative story, but a positive story. We talk about her interview from hell all the time and laugh.
#3
His phone rang in the middle of the interview which - not cool, mute that - but then he ANSWERED it and gave me the “hang on a sec finger” then said “…nothing, how about you?”. I just left the room and asked the admin to show him out.
#4
I wasn't conducting the interview, but I was sitting in the waiting area when this happened, so I got to watch the whole thing unfold.
This guy walks in for his interview, and he's on his phone. Not like, wrapping up a call in the parking lot... actively having a full conversation as he walks through the door. The receptionist greets him, he holds up one finger in that "give me a minute" gesture, and just keeps talking. She's standing there with the clipboard, trying to be professional, and he's discussing what sounds like weekend plans with someone.
Finally—and I mean a solid three minutes later—he ends the call. Doesn't apologize, just says "I'm here for the 2 o'clock."
She takes his name, asks him to have a seat, and goes to let the hiring manager know he's arrived. The guy sits down across from me, pulls out his phone again, and I kid you not, he's playing a mobile game with the sound on. Not loud, but audible. In a quiet waiting room.
About five minutes later, the hiring manager comes out. Professional guy, extends his hand for a handshake. The candidate looks up from his phone, sees the outstretched hand, and says—I will never forget this—"Oh, can you give me like two minutes? I'm almost done with this level."
The hiring manager just... stood there. You could see him processing whether this was actually happening. Then he slowly lowered his hand, said "Actually, I think we're all set here," turned around, and walked back to his office.
The candidate finally looked up from his phone, confused, and asked the receptionist "Wait, was that the interview?"
She just smiled and said, "Yes. Yes it was."
He sat there for another minute looking genuinely baffled before he packed up and left. The receptionist and I made eye contact after he was gone and we both just started laughing. Some people really do interview themselves right out of a job.
TonjaLasagne 13 hours ago
And I can't believe that d*i*m*w*i*t was censored!
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#5
Hiring a nurse for a senior living facility. She came in for an interview and I saw her park in the first handicap spot next to the building I could see from my office. She had no disability placard or license plate. When she entered my office I pointed out that she must have forgot to put her placard up and she should go do it so she doesn’t get a ticket. She responded that she forgot that she doesn’t have it today because her mom took it back to run her errands…..I asked why her mom was using her handicap placard and she said “no, I don’t have my own, I just usually use my moms because I hate looking for parking”.
It was an immediate no from me dog.
Stephanie Did It 13 hours ago
This is why I seriously question (internally) those who park their monster pickup truck with huge tires that require a step ladder to enter/exit the vehicle, in the handicap spots. And then three teenagers hop out and run into the store.
#6
Had a guy show up to a design interview with my work in his portfolio.
David 14 hours ago
when you plagiarize, at least make sure the person looking at it, can't identify it. When I was in college, a student plagiarized from a paper that had been written by the Professors old Doctoral Advisor, and he picked up on that right away, and flunked the student and kicked them out of class mid semester and reported them to the Academic board at the college.
SaraCapybara 10 hours ago
When I was a Graduate Assistant grading papers, one of the students used my work. It was in our department library with other examples of well written papers. I immediately recognized that it was one of my papers because there was a Monty Python joke in it.
Michael Largey 13 hours ago
We had a new principal who found a proposed policy in his predecessor's desk. He asked me what i thought of it. Since my name was at the bottom as the author, I thought it was pretty d**n good.
UpupaEpops 4 hours ago
We had an urban legend at uni about a student handing in his professor's dissertation as his own work. 😁
Robin Roper 31 minutes ago
OP should have asked "Tell me about your inspiration for this (her work)?
Robyn Hill 1 hour ago
I had a student submit her final exam essay that was 100% plagiarized from my notes that I would post online for students who missed class. She appealed the zero. She lost the appeal.
#7
He was really really rude to my assistant, i stopped the interview and asked him to leave.
Edited to add context.
I’m getting lots of DMs about this, so I’ll explain what went down. He came into the interview room, my assistant was sat next to me, i introduced myself, my assistant did the same, then asked him if he’d like a drink, he put his finger to his lips and said ssshhh. Then grinned at me, i immediately stood up and told him he needed to leave, the interview was terminated and that he would never work for me.
He looked completely shocked, slammed his fists down on the table and tried storming out, but he kept pushing a door that you needed to pull, so my assistant laughed and went over to show him how to use a door.
I work in finance, the job he was interviewing for was entry level. The arrogance still shocks me. And yes, I’m a woman.
Luke || Kira (he/she) 2 hours ago
A beautiful example of a skilled, rugged Alpha Male™ specimen who almost managed to lock himself in an unlocked room by his own stupidity.
#8
Candidate looks at watch, asks: “How long is this going to take?” I say, “I have GREAT news! You can leave NOW!” Fastest interview ever!! It really did happen.
#9
Guy had to do a presentation but his laptop battery was dead so he asked if he could plug it in.
One of the panel members had to go under the board room table to do that and the candidate says, "Well look at that, I've only been here five minutes and already got a woman on her knees."
Edit for more context ...
It couldn't actually get worse of course but it was extraordinary how bad this experience was.
It was for a public sector position (UK), in health and a considerable part of the role was procurement and contract management. Candidates were told how to prepare and what the assessment criteria would be.
Part of this was confidentiality/data and records security.
When the guy started his laptop we had to wait while he shut down Discord, Steam and a host of gaming related apps that just kept booting. As he started his presentation, in the background this startup music for COD or something blasts out of his speaker so he cancels that and carries on like it's perfectly normal.
His desktop was also littered with invoices and quotes that clearly showed company and individual identities.
He finished his presentation, no one on the panel asked a single question and we said thanks. On his way out he turned and said, "I think I messed that up didn't I?"
No champ, you were golden.
David 14 hours ago
that first comment alone should have ended this process. Forget about how sexist and inappropriate it was, that is a HR lawsuit waiting to happen
Robyn Hill 1 hour ago
Right? He should have been showed the door right then.
Load More Replies... caraestrella 1 hour ago
Not only the misogyny, but being unprepared with a dead laptop he knew he’d be presenting with, was the first red flag
#10
Work in healthcare analytics. Mid interview (it was virtual as they were from another region) they shared screen to demonstrate the type of work they were currently doing (which we DID not ask for, and she did not ask us if she could share screen) and the screen she showed us had clear patient identifiers, health card numbers, etc.
We immediately shut that down. Patient privacy and data security are absolutely paramount, and that level of cavalier treatment of sensitive patient information immediately disqualified her from being considered, AND we had to submit a report to their institution afterwards.
Sue User 3 hours ago
Had a company asked for samples of my work. I stated I could do a mockup with fake data and did they have a preference to which set ( MS has lots of sample data sets ). No, they wanted real data. Not going to happen. One: I don't keep any data from my jobs. It is on the company computer and wiped before returning laptop. Two: even if I had data, not sharing.
#11
Candidate kept boasting about how many languages he speaks even though it was not a requirement for the position. Finally asked him in which foreign language he was most fluent, and he replied Spanish. Followed up with a simple question asked in Spanish. He did not speak Spanish.
#12
“I’m not good enough, I’d like to end the interview”
I told them that it was just nerves and everything would be okay and we can continue and see where the discussion goes, but they were adamant that they were overwhelmed and wanted to end the interview so we did.
Poor lass.
#13
I had a candidate reveal classified information about their work at their previous employer during an interview. No way were we going to trust them with our stuff.
#14
He seemed generally irritated at being interviewed by me. He wanted the man in charge, and I am a woman.
In the end, I asked if there was anything else he wanted to tell me or that would be relevant regarding his qualifications. He said, "Yeah, I'm a man, so people listen to what I have to say. That's how things get done."
He did not get hired.
#15
She brought her boyfriend and the boyfriend was answering all the questions.
Onan Hag All 4 hours ago
He was an emotional support boyfriend, they had too.🤣🤣🤣
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 13 hours ago
No, the position was not for a ventriloquist.
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UpupaEpops 4 hours ago (edited)
Honestly, I would probably try to separate them and have a quiet chat to see if she's OK. I had a friend who's husband picked her university, the course, the optionals, jobs, all of it. The last time we met, I couldn't even ask her what she had for lunch as it was the j*****s answering. She completely faded out of our lives. I know she's still alive. But I hope that one day she'll have the strength to leave or let us help her to do so.
#16
"Do we have to go on the southside to do orders? If so, can I opt out of those. I am not comfortable about black people."
Little did he know, the employee that has been with us for 32 of our 36 years is black and from the southside (Chicago) was on the other side of the wall. The second he left, I let her know and she was dying laughing. She ran outside to wave goodbye to him as he left the parking lot.
#17
I once interviewed a flat earther who admitted in the interview within the fist 10min that the main reason he wanted to work in aviation was to be closer to airplanes so he could prove they were holograms since *clearly* they shouldn’t be able to fly since the earth is flat.
To this day I’m not sure if he was just trying to show someone “hey look I’m applying for jobs idk why they all say no” or he genuinely believed it, but either way I let the interview go on for like an hour and him just rant his little heart out.
Ended up going in a different direction haha.
#18
We were hiring for an illustrator at a crafting company. He had a nice portfolio and he could clearly draw, but it was all in his own style. When he was asked if he would be able to shift gears and match other styles he said, "I won't need to because I am so good at my style." We explained that he would have to draw additional assets to match existing illustration styles pretty regularly and he just snorted and said, "No, they will have to match my style."
He, uh...he was not hired.
#19
Me being at just the right age to not know teenage speak had to interview an 18 year old kid. Interview was a trainwreck from the start but he said "yeet" at one point. Curiosity got the best of me and I was like "yeet?" This dude picked up my pen and threw it across the room then looked me dead in the eyes and said "yeet". I kinda respected him for that but also...hell no.
#20
I worked at a big-box retailer and got called up to the service counter to deal with a customer who was upset. This was only a couple minutes before I was scheduled to conduct an interview with a potential new hire.
I get up there, and this woman is berating the employee behind the counter, referring to her as “this b word”, etc.
I ask her to lower her voice and please stop being disrespectful to my employee. She isn’t happy but she does eventually calm down enough to be reasonable and we resolve the situation at the service desk. I turn to walk away, thinking we’re done here, and she goes
“Anyway, I’m here for my interview.”
I can’t believe that this is actually happening, it seems like awful rom-com movie type stuff, but this rude woman actually expected me to proceed with interviewing her.
“I’m sorry ma’am, that position is no longer available.”
#21
Interviewing for an IT position, asked a basic question about virus removal. "Oh I dunno my husband does that"
Well then tell him to apply.
#22
There were several
- The company was a defense contractor, selling widgets to the US military. The candidate gave me a lecture about the evil American Empire and how it was everyone’s moral duty to stop it.
- He bragged about his time at another company and the project he had completed single handed. The problem was that I had worked at that company at that time and was in charge of that project. I had never heard of him. (Turns out he was hired a year after I left). He was literally taking credit for something I did.
- The candidate claimed to have a degree from the University of New Jersey. He even showed me a Xerox copy of his diploma. (There is no UNJ. Our state university is Rutgers)
- He asked if the HR manager's breasts were real or if she had had some work done.
David 13 hours ago (edited)
hmmm, someone who thinks America is evil but wants to work for a US defense contractor... either someone who wants to sabotage but too dumb to realize they gave their game plane, or someone who is a really greedy hypocrite. And while there is no University of New Jersey, there are more Public Universities in NJ than the 3 Rutgers, there is New Jersey City University, Kean University, NJIT, The College of New Jersey, Thomas Edison University and more
Veronica Jean 2 hours ago
Maybe he meant the College of New Jersey? TCNJ is often confused for the state college. Probably not though, who gets the name of their own college wrong??
#23
I don’t like people. Just put me in an office and leave me alone. For a job helping people at the library.
UpupaEpops 4 hours ago
OK. Clearly the wrong person for the job. But as an introvert, I would greatly appreciate it if all the job advertisements weren't written with anxiously attached over-caffeinated squirrels in mind.
Apatheist 2 hours ago
I find, as an introvert, that talking about my job is one of three situations where I can be more confident and extrovert (the others being quizzes and sport, but they're not the same for everyone).
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#24
She sat down, plunked her purse on the desk and started with, "I need to let you know, I have issues.".
#25
I wasn’t the one conducting, but I had a job interview for a driving position. Well, in the parking lot before the job interview, I accidentally rear ended the managers car . Safe to say I didn’t get the job.
#26
I once had someone tell me, "Well, my goal is to be in charge and run the place, so if I see a leadership opportunity, I take it. If I think management is weak, I'll step in and step up to the plate, it's my turn, ya know? I don't like a weak manager and I'm more than willing to take over if necessary."
I didn't need someone who would be gunning for my job, undermining me, and attempting a management coup - I needed someone who was going to focus on the work at hand and do their job as directed.
I also had someone once apply for a weekend position, then tell me they couldn't work weekends due to religious reasons, so their solution was to hire them for a weekday position, then transfer a weekday employee to the weekends - and if I didn't do that, it was religious discrimination, and she'd sue us. Because threatening to sue the hiring manager during the job interview is totally going to get you the position.
Biytemii 4 hours ago
I have actually been told in an interview( and as an interviewer learned) that they want to hear that you want their job. They like knowing that you are motivated to work for higher goals in the job and not just there to be a unmotivated employee.
Bec 2 hours ago
They want to hear that you are motivated and want to grow, not that they will usurp the leadership.
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#27
The interview was fine but something was off. Answers were overly rehearsed and there was just an off vibe I was getting. After he left I was contemplating a second interview versus cutting bait. While I was putting away the paperwork one of the other staff members came back in from a break. The interviewee bragged to the staff member they were gonna get hired and get promoted right away so the staff member better start kissing up now (red flag 1) and that they hadn't slept for over 36 hours as they were still high on crack(red flags 2 through 10)
He did not get a call back.
Bec 3 hours ago
My college roommate tried for a management position at our workplace, which was primarily college students and kind of cliquey. They pass and tell him it was because he was too nervous. A few months later a management position opens up and he takes a bunch of Valium so he will not be nervous - He did not get the job that way either 😂
#28
I worked in a restaurant and I had to walk out a problematic dishwasher who gave attitude to servers and would disappear for hours, so we fired him.
Fast forward three years and I'm at a different restaurant working with another colleague from the previous one. The kitchen manager come back and says "do you know this guy? He's applying here and his resume has the same restaurant you were at."
I said "yep. Don't hire him, he'll give you headaches." The manager says, "did you want to come out and tell him no?" I said, "sure"
I walked out into the dining room, saw the guy, he sees me and turns white as a ghost. I laugh and said "Hell no." And walked to the back.
Kick rocks, Jeremy.
#29
"I can't really do the test unless I have chatGPT open".
It's scary that it happened several times, too.
Sue User 2 hours ago
I have gapped on the order of the parameters in a function. Is it where I am searching, then what is am searching for? Or vice versus. Why? Because I switch between languages ( I could be coding in one language in morning another in afternoon) and there is no rhyme or reason to this.
#30
Thank you for asking this is one of my favorite stories.
Me: “Do you work well with others?”
Him: “Well I don’t know. I don’t really like it. Like, right now I work with a team and like two of them are crippled so I don’t really enjoy it. Well, I guess one guy is crippled the other is just a little handicapped.”
At one point he said something insane and I put my head in my hands so he couldn’t see me laugh (unprofessional on my part).
Him: “Oh are you tired?”
Me: “No, I’m alright.”
Him: “Well, you look REALLY tired.”
(I wasn’t btw. I just don’t wear makeup to work)
He also showed up to the interview with a 44 oz orange slurpee and sucked loudly from the straw throughout the interview. It was 9 o’clock in the morning.
#31
I had someone tell me that he looked up my Facebook, tell me he knows my father, and then ask me about mutual friends. The Facebook look up isn't abnormal, but making it a series of questions in the interview absolutely is. It felt so invasive and icky. I locked my Facebook down after that and did not hire the guy. I couldn't even tell you if he was qualified for the job. Every time I asked him about his experience, he tried to steer the conversation back to people we knew in common.
#32
"I was fired from my last job because my boss said I embezzled $20,000. That isn't true, though, it was really only $10,000.".
#33
Told about how he stole goods from a store they worked at, put them in his buddy’s car, called the cops so his buddy would get arrested. Then slept with his buddy’s girlfriend while the buddy was in jail.
All this in response to the question, “Tell us about a time when you had an ethical dilemma, what did you do, and what was the outcome?”
Apparently his buddy’s was cheating him on their shared illegal business and so he told us what he did when his best friend wasn’t splitting the profits 50/50.
#34
When asked why they thought they were qualified for the job, they replied that they weren't but it was okay because the position was not a career goal for them. They only needed it to pay bills while they found something else. It was a teaching position.
#35
In a behavioral interview assessing leadership skills, etc.
Q: Did you enjoy having an intern?
A: Oh, yes, I was able to offload lots of work to him.
Not a word about mentoring, collaborating, etc.
#36
At the end I asked if he had any questions for me. He said, "yeah, that sign on the front door.... Is that a rule or more of a guideline?" I was confused. I said, "push to enter? probably a rule. that's how doors work." He said, "no, no. The one that says no guns allowed on premises. I don't know if you've noticed but I'm kinda dressed like a cowboy." I hadn't noticed, but then I did. Cowboy boots, a westernish vest. He went on, "I have holsters all over. For me putting on my guns in the morning is like putting on my underwear." Important lesson here is never mention your guns or underwear in a first interview. I thanked him for his time and escorted him out.
#37
Been on the other side:
I had the lead interviewer raise his voice to me when he didn't understand what I was conveying. I don't mean he just got louder, he was basically shouting at me. I looked at the other interviewer and he looked all sheepish, which told me that this is the lead interviewer's personality and it would be exponentially worse if I actually worked for him. I finished the interview and made a point of letting the company know I was withdrawing my application (I had other options at the time).
Years later I got confirmation from someone who worked there that the guy was toxic and scared away staff all the time.
Like the saying goes, when they show you who they are, believe them.
Amanda the Panda 11 hours ago
You were lucky. You usually don’t find out until you are in the job.
#38
To be honest, this only made me want to hire her more but I was overruled by the other interviewers.
Me: What would you consider your greatest weakness?
Her: Oh, I eat way too many pickles
Me: Girl, same. That's not really what I meant though...
Her: I don't work out as much as I should.
The job was for a data management/visualization role.
Howl's sleeping castle 2 hours ago
For years I used 'i have a bad handwriting'. Still got hired because my work has nothing to do with writing on paper.
#39
Hiring for a clerk position in a pharmacy. Lady couldn't place a series of 10 names in alphabetical order. We had to start testing new hires because we find out one of our current employees couldn't do it and would just hang patients scripts wherever :(.
TonjaLasagne 13 hours ago
They would get completely lost with the Dewey Decimal System! To this day, the best job that I ever had was when I was 16 & I was a library page for the Seattle Public Library for the summer. My home branch was the Columbia Branch off of Rainier Avenue in the south end of Seattle. Getting new books prepared for the shelves was my favorite thing to do: opening the boxes, the smell of the new books, the smell of the rubber cement that was used to place those paper pockets inside the front cover of the book where the date stamp card went (remember that?). I never minded having to reshelve any books: enter Dewey Decimal. A couple of years ago, I entered that branch for the first time in years & it smelled the same. Even though they had renovated quite a bit, they still had the same, original solid wood bookshelves in the front part. I walked up to the front desk, introduced myself, & told them that not only had I worked there over four decades ago but it smelled the same! Happy memories!
Sue User 2 hours ago
It was fun seeing the names of other who had read the book. Oh, I didn't realize John was a fan of science fiction.
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Min 4 hours ago
When I worked in HR, finding employee files in the cabinet was always a chore because all three of the people I worked with would just put files back somewhere in the general vicinity of where they'd found it. Not only would it take too long to find a file, but the gremlins in my brain would never let me close a drawer until I'd put the rest of them in that drawer back in order.
Sue User 2 hours ago
Worked on place where the physical files were by client name but the digital were by project number.
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1. Zoom interview - she was wearing lacy pajamas and the matching silk robe.
2. Many zoom interviews - unable to connect their camera or sound. Since we work hybrid remote it isn’t a good sign if someone can’t work zoom.
3. Multiple zoom interviews - didn’t have their phone propped somewhere and instead kept fidgeting with it or holding it. I feel like I am interviewing the Blair witch project.
4. Have had people interview for positions and tell me their least favorite function at their current job is the main function of the position they are interviewing for. I start every interview by telling them about the position and go into detail about the day to day job. There is no way they could be confused about what duties they would be responsible for.
TonjaLasagne 13 hours ago
Number 3: I burst out laughing! I was so disappointed with the Blair Witch Project! It had so much potential but then...meh.
Ashtophet’sRevenge 4 hours ago
I like Blair Witch but it makes my husband crazy, since he considers going into the woods with one map and compass the height of stupidity.
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Smirked, and sounded snotty and entitled immediately after greeting me and me asking them to be seated.
Bye! You thought I was the assistant, but guess what? I would have been your boss. .
Veronica Jean 2 hours ago (edited)
I was creative director at a marketing agency with selective clientele, and due to The boutique nature of what we offered I often answered the phones. The amount of people who assumed I was a secretary and treated me very poorly was astounding.
#42
Done a number of interviews at a major financial services firm, was hiring for first year associates.
Q: Tell me about a time you had to work with people who were different than you or had different skill sets and how did you work around that?
A: Well my last job had a lot of Asians and they were pretty hard to understand.
I had to stop for a second to make sure I had heard that correctly. Also on another question she simply said “pass” as if that were an option….
#43
Had a woman come in and started going through everything wrong with the coworkers at her previous place of employment. All of them, far as I could tell. As she left, I advised her not to do that on her next interview, and she seemed to get it.
#44
I received a resume written in sharpie once. I used to keep it in my desk drawer as an example what not to do.
#45
In our interviews for entry level construction jobs, we ask a stereotypical ethics question, basically “if you saw someone on site steal an expensive tool and put it in their car what would you do.”
Everyone knows to say something like “I would let a supervisor know” or “I would try and stop them”.
One guy I interviewed said verbatim “I ain’t no snitch.”
I respected the honesty but also stopped the interview right there.
#46
Back when I was in corporate, a candidate for a middle management role walked into our conference room and before a handshake or an intro, asked if I was there to take notes for the 'boys' meeting.' Suffice it to say, the interview didn't get much better from there.
#47
When asked about how he had handled issues with managers in the past, he started by describing the age, ethnicity and weight of his manager. Beyond irrelevant. That’s going to be a no.
#48
Brought their parents to sit in on the interview to "make sure I am fair" in my decision making process.
#49
The person was literally running every question through an AI and reading the output to me (via zoom).
#50
Showed up at 11:40 when the scheduled time was 10:30, confirmed via phone call and text, was wearing jeans and an untucked button down tee. when i told him he was late he said "i thought it was at 11:30" to which i replied "so you'd still be late?" and asked him to leave, then he threw a fit for me not giving him a chance.
the guy who showed up on time and was well dressed became a personal friend of mine, and replaced me when i left my position there. and is still running that place 8 years later to great success.
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What do you think ?
SaraCapybara 10 hours ago
I was the Editorial Manager for a tech company, in charge of a team of writers and editors. I had a candidate for a writing position come in for an interview. He wasn't doing very well, said "um" a lot and failed a short editing quiz. But he really got the no from me when I asked him who his favorite writers were. He replied, "I don't really have any, I don't like to read." Sorry,, but to be a good writer you have to read.
TonjaLasagne 13 hours ago
The guy that was talking on his phone and then was playing a game on his phone was the height of rudeness. But showing up in your pajamas? That takes the cake!
Sue User 2 hours ago
I wear the plaid sweatpants when my health is low and changing clothes would be a chore. Yes, I can operate a vehicle but not do zippers or buttons. Though it's hard in winter because operating the heat is too hard.
Load More Replies... UpupaEpops 3 hours ago
As an Eastern European woman trying to get a job in conservation sciences, I don't know whether to be relieved that my country isn't the only s******w that treats women, minorities and immigrants like garbage or be completely dispirited that no matter where I may try to go, this is a battle I will be fighting for the rest of my life. I'm tired. I just really am. I'm hanging on alright, I'm just really struggling to see what for.
Drop Bear from Hell 12 hours ago
I had someone stop an interview mid-way, pull a boombox out of the large bag they brought with them, turn it on and sing and dance to the soundtrack. The three of us just sat there, jaws on the desk.
SaraCapybara 10 hours ago
I was the Editorial Manager for a tech company, in charge of a team of writers and editors. I had a candidate for a writing position come in for an interview. He wasn't doing very well, said "um" a lot and failed a short editing quiz. But he really got the no from me when I asked him who his favorite writers were. He replied, "I don't really have any, I don't like to read." Sorry,, but to be a good writer you have to read.
TonjaLasagne 13 hours ago
The guy that was talking on his phone and then was playing a game on his phone was the height of rudeness. But showing up in your pajamas? That takes the cake!
Sue User 2 hours ago
I wear the plaid sweatpants when my health is low and changing clothes would be a chore. Yes, I can operate a vehicle but not do zippers or buttons. Though it's hard in winter because operating the heat is too hard.
Load More Replies... UpupaEpops 3 hours ago
As an Eastern European woman trying to get a job in conservation sciences, I don't know whether to be relieved that my country isn't the only s******w that treats women, minorities and immigrants like garbage or be completely dispirited that no matter where I may try to go, this is a battle I will be fighting for the rest of my life. I'm tired. I just really am. I'm hanging on alright, I'm just really struggling to see what for.
Drop Bear from Hell 12 hours ago
I had someone stop an interview mid-way, pull a boombox out of the large bag they brought with them, turn it on and sing and dance to the soundtrack. The three of us just sat there, jaws on the desk.
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