People Share 30 Worst Job Interview Stories And Personal Experiences, And Some Are Hard To Imagine

Excellent decision.

That certainly could have gone wrong.

If I can google it or find it on your website, I consider it public domain.

The one who called should get the job, his solution worked 😃😃

But did you get the job?

Lol, this happened to a friend of mine. Easy to end up at the same interview if you work in a specialist field!

You deserve a job at a much better company.

Say it with a Russian accent and all debts are paid immediately.

Cori's comment makes this story.

I just imagined this scene. Hilarious!

Oh dear. And I thought I had some bad days...

They must've been extremely in need of a new employee.

Applying for a veterinary job or...?

I went to only one job interview that involved a panel. I'll never do it again.

:D

Too bad she didn’t roll with it and interview you in there

I'm sorry I laughed so hard at this

My friends son went to an interview at a pizza place. When he arrived, he was told it would be a few minutes as it was the lunch rush and the manager was back helping the kitchen get caught up on pizza orders. When the manager finally emerged, he asked my friend's son what he thought this job was about. The young man answered "It's about making pizza so that you, as a manager, can do your job without having to stop to make pizza." He got the job on the spot.

why do so many people go to interviews hungover??

Don't know what a 'culture' interview is and you had two.......sounds painful.

Isn't this kinda standard questions in programming? About 90% of interviews I've been to have had some kind of programming test. And the worth of a unplanned program done in 30 minutes isn't really that big.

You should have gotten that job. I would have thought you were going to be honest and weren’t afraid of saying how you really feel about something. I know you didn’t realize what the product was, but they didn’t know that. Next time, give em a stare and say, “I said what I SAID.”

As I used to tell my daughter when she told unbelievable tales, "Was that what you said, or what you wanted to say?"

Red flag!

Well, climbing a mountain of blow—-I mean snow—-obviously is.

Mission accomplished. The company's mission, that is. 'We tried to hire women but they all declined.'

should have warned those ladies this guy sounds like a sexual offender (the filmmaker I mean)

Would have been the perfect answer for the local parks and rec department

So you're saying you passed up a game of Jenga?!

Exactly!

So if you're excellent at your job but a cat-person you won't get hired?

Good thing they aren't allowed to ask those things here. No awkward moments. Also, it's none of their business.

Harsh!

Omg, how embarrassing. That happened to me as I was walking to the shops and stopped to chat to one of our neighbours. Eek

Open mouth, insert foot.

Thats messed up.

Couldn’t get much less professional than that.

I would have said. "Well then it's a good thing I'm not your secretary because then you'd be broke from the enormous lawsuit you'd face for wrongful termination and sexual harassment." And I'd walk out.

Ugh, that is just petty and a complete waste of someone’s time.

Well that took a turn...

classic facepalm moment

I once had an interview with a young woman who appeared to be wearing full-on corpse paint. I wanted to hire her so badly, but she took a position with another newspaper before I could call her back. Her first year in the business, she won a state-wide journalism award for her writing.

Maybe that was suppossed to be a porn and you've just not been told?

Got hit by a lorry early in the morning, while stopped at a junction. Arm was broken but I still did an interview that afternoon. Sometimes shock stops you realising you need to stop.

Worked for a charity helping to research arthritis and support sufferers. You learn that a handshake is a p**s poor way to evaluate people when there are hundreds of thousands of people suffering with the problem. When your hands hurt the last thing you need is some damned fool thinking a handshake should be a test instead a civil way of greeting someone.

That's Baby, ESQUIRE, you patronizing schmuck! I had to explain to a male lawyer that calling female employees "love" or "dear" is a very bad idea.

Anna Wintour herself probably designed that torture chamber.

I would have said "You know I don't have to be working for you to file a sexual harassment lawsuit, right?"

Haha. They can't handle the truth!

Defudge?

This isn't a "worst interview". You didn't do anything wrong. Actually you behaved in a very good way.

Some days it just do bee like that

Wow, lot of money being spent on such a low level job. Whoever was in charge of recruitment needed sacking. All the charities I worked for conducted equal opps interviews and were, bar one, very professional.

That's pretty standard international business practice.

I've had this when applying for jobs internally. A manager will arrange a meeting to tell you why you didn't get the job and what you might want to consider doing to apply for it again in future. But a random firm, would a phone call not have sufficed?

I think it was the tits.

Those things are really confusing, windows are more or less infinitely better

wtf? why died he want to know that?

Plan when there's a mass fatality incident: Bury them. There you are.

I would have answered: I have no iPod.

I mis-read that as "...everyone PEEING over me" and thought WTF? 😂🤣🤦‍♂️