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Kombucha 09/27/23 10:01:28 AM #1: |
I once had an interview with Apple and the guy talked so fast he sounded like he was on an illegal stimulant. It was unnerving, like he had already picked a candidate and wanted to rush through the rest of his bullshit, or he was overworked that day and had to get onto other shit that was more important. Either way I crashed and burned that interview.
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Umbreon 09/27/23 10:02:19 AM #2: |
I got the job.
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Compsognathus 09/27/23 10:04:28 AM #3: |
I showed up completely unprepared and knew nothing about the company beyond the fact they were a small CPA firm. The interviewer correctly called me out on it.
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voldothegr8 09/27/23 10:08:29 AM #4: |
Best and worst at the same time. Lady interviewing me was attractive, had massive breasts, and was wearing an outfit where half of them were bubbling out of the top. I'm talking waterbed motions as she walked. Super cleavage.
I didn't stand a chance. If her aim was to weed out pervs it worked flawlessly. --- THE Ohio State: 4-0 | Las Vegas Raiders: 1-1 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Prototypic 09/27/23 10:09:29 AM #5: |
I found out after three rounds of interviews that they knew who they were going to hire the whole time and I was basically a filler candidate so they could pretend they were doing their due diligence.
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lderivedx 09/27/23 10:10:06 AM #6: |
I had tech troubles right before the interview and had to come up with a workaround, then was very flustered through the rest. Rejected almost immediately lol
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St0rmFury 09/27/23 10:10:11 AM #7: |
I talked too much about my negative points instead of selling myself
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theAteam 09/27/23 10:11:28 AM #8: |
It was a video interview. They scheduled it for 7am pacific time for some reason, which is where the guy was based out of. He was quite clearly tired and probably just woke up. Rubbing his eyes the whole time and generally uninterested and low energy for the whole thing. Just read off standard questions, I'm fairly sure he had an "interview questions" google result on his monitor.
Funny enough my sister-in-law applied for the same job and did 7 interviews before they just straight up ghosted her. Awful company and I'm glad I didn't get picked to go further. --- Buffalo Bills ... Copied to Clipboard!
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LoveLikeJazz 09/27/23 10:12:42 AM #9: |
My worst interview was my first interview, because I was nervous as shit, didn't want a job (I was 16 and forced to), and knew nothing about it. I was interviewing to be park services at Six Flags, basically a trash guy/sidewalk sweeper.
As part of the opening, the manager asked me about myself and - just to fill the air with words because I had nothing interesting to tell - I said that my brother was there also interviewing for security. The manager asked why I chose park services instead of security too, and I didn't have an answer for him. I couldn't even come up with something simple like "that's just more his style but I'm a meticulous person so I prefer to organize and tidy things up." I just froze because I was so afraid to say the wrong thing. I sat there for a moment and with every passing second I grew more anxious because the longer you wait the more awkward it gets. He saw what was happening and basically assured me it was fine because he was going to hire me anyway. I quit after 2 months. Nothing like that ever happened again. --- PSN: LoveLikeJazz https://soundcloud.com/pacuta ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Heineken14 09/27/23 10:13:57 AM #10: |
MS engineer posting that had no mention of Linux. Interview said there would be light Linux. Gave me a test/questions that was almost nothing but Linux. I don't know much about Linux.
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Lukey_Bug 09/27/23 10:15:33 AM #11: |
Went to an interview for one position. Nailed it the interviewer really loved me and at the end of an hour interview told me they accidentally posted the wrong position and offered me a lesser one.
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LoveLikeJazz 09/27/23 10:15:43 AM #12: |
voldothegr8 posted...
Best and worst at the same time. Lady interviewing me was attractive, had massive breasts, and was wearing an outfit where half of them were bubbling out of the top. I'm talking waterbed motions as she walked. Super cleavage.No you gotta give more than that! There's a whole part of the story between "super cleavage" and "I didn't stand a chance" that you gotta tell lmao --- PSN: LoveLikeJazz https://soundcloud.com/pacuta ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Pitlord_Special 09/27/23 10:16:02 AM #13: |
Pretty similar to OP, Ive had a few where it was the 2nd or 3rd round and the interviewer either just quickly goes through standard questions or only goes for total hardball questions because they already have someone picked out and youre not even in the running unless youre a rock star who can charm the skin off a snake
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Solid_Sonic 09/27/23 10:16:19 AM #14: |
Basically existed to put me in my place. One guy would ask me questions then the other would harshly correct me to demonstrate I'm not hot shit.
By the end I had a "need to wash the stink of failure" sense. --- Being proud of yourself is cringe, show some humility. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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LoveLikeJazz 09/27/23 10:17:54 AM #15: |
Prototypic posted...
I found out after three rounds of interviews that they knew who they were going to hire the whole time and I was basically a filler candidate so they could pretend they were doing their due diligence.I used to work in HR and had to do this to people sometimes. It was a shame when there was only one worthy candidate for a promotion, but the policy was that 3 had to be interviewed (and run through the system) before anyone could be actually promoted officially. --- PSN: LoveLikeJazz https://soundcloud.com/pacuta ... Copied to Clipboard!
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voldothegr8 09/27/23 10:23:11 AM #17: |
LoveLikeJazz posted...
No you gotta give more than that! There's a whole part of the story between "super cleavage" and "I didn't stand a chance" that you gotta tell lmaoShe caught me glancing multiple times during the interview. I tried my best not to but it just wasn't fair. --- THE Ohio State: 4-0 | Las Vegas Raiders: 1-1 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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superbot400 09/27/23 10:24:42 AM #18: |
interviewer literally told me to I didnt get the job while he made me walk around the plant.
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TheGoldenEel 09/27/23 10:28:05 AM #19: |
Ive had developer interviews where the technical part of the interview was then asking a bunch of academic questions like defining vocabulary terms from college
shit I obviously know as a developer with years of experience, but that I cant pull the definition out of nowhere for when you spring it on me. I end up feeling like an idiot though, Ive also done that in an interview where I ended up getting the job anyway --- BLACK LIVES MATTER Games: http://backloggery.com/wrldindstries302 \\ Music: http://www.last.fm/user/DrMorberg/ ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Smallville 09/27/23 10:28:45 AM #20: |
voldothegr8 posted...
Best and worst at the same time. Lady interviewing me was attractive, had massive breasts, and was wearing an outfit where half of them were bubbling out of the top. I'm talking waterbed motions as she walked. Super cleavage.Wow cool story bro. Kinda wish that had happened to me before. So what if she was super attractive? Like that would instantly paralyze you or something? --- "That won't work Boss, hide the target in a place they're unlikely to be found"---GZ ... Copied to Clipboard!
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TheGoldenEel 09/27/23 10:29:36 AM #21: |
Lukey_Bug posted...
Went to an interview for one position. Nailed it the interviewer really loved me and at the end of an hour interview told me they accidentally posted the wrong position and offered me a lesser one.Btw this is a tactic employers use, not necessarily an accident they hope by the time youve invested all that time youll take the job anyway --- BLACK LIVES MATTER Games: http://backloggery.com/wrldindstries302 \\ Music: http://www.last.fm/user/DrMorberg/ ... Copied to Clipboard!
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CableZL 09/27/23 10:30:24 AM #22: |
I was about 3.5 years into doing tech support. I thought I was hot shit and believed I was ready to move on to a networking job. I landed an interview to work in a network operations center at a company in north Austin, TX. I walked into the job interview pretty confident that I was going to get the job. The interview started, and he began asking me some basic technical questions.
Question 1: Have you ever heard of the OSI model? My answer: No Question 2: When you have a subnet mask of 255.255.255.252, how many usable IPs are there? Me: 1 There were no more technical questions after that. I knew just from that fact that I had bombed the interview hard. After it was over, I sat in my car outside the building for about an hour and was incredibly angry at myself. It was a soul crushing experience. It was at this point I realized that, while I had been doing very well at my ISP tech support job, I had been spinning my wheels and was not setting myself up for the future. Looking back at it now, I needed that to happen. If I hadn't done that interview, I probably would have continued doing tech support for a lot longer than I did. --- https://i.imgtc.com/d9Fc4Qq.gif https://i.imgtc.com/BKHTxYq.gif https://i.imgtc.com/vYYIuDx.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Starks 09/27/23 10:31:19 AM #23: |
Interviewer came in with a freshly ripped dress shirt. At that point, I knew I had power over this guy and got the job.
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Smallville 09/27/23 10:32:20 AM #24: |
CableZL posted...
I was about 3.5 years into doing tech support. I thought I was hot shit and believed I was ready to move on to a networking job. I landed an interview to work in a network operations center at a company in north Austin, TX. I walked into the job interview pretty confident that I was going to get the job. The interview started, and he began asking me some basic technical questions.So what? Interviewers really like asking about that stuff. Ask yourself this, those hard tech questions in that interview, you would have used that stuff all the time if you were hired there? --- "That won't work Boss, hide the target in a place they're unlikely to be found"---GZ ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Smallville 09/27/23 10:32:41 AM #25: |
Starks posted...
Interviewer came in with a freshly ripped dress shirt. At that point, I knew I had power over this guy and got the job.what, why? --- "That won't work Boss, hide the target in a place they're unlikely to be found"---GZ ... Copied to Clipboard!
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A_Good_Boy 09/27/23 10:35:17 AM #26: |
It was for a company that requested an interview almost an hour after I had just spent some time on ziprecruiter hitting the quick apply button to everything. I figured that since they requested an interview so quickly after all I did was spend a bit of time bullshitting that I wasn't actually going to give much a damn myself about what I was bringing to the table. It ended up being one of the toughest interviews I've ever taken and I was completely unprepared and out of my depth. By the time the interview was over I was just completely breathless and embarrassed. I should have just quit out of the interview at several points, but I guess I'm a masochist and I love making a fool of myself. They made a token gesture of asking me for references, but needless to say I didn't actually get the job.
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meralonne 09/27/23 10:36:07 AM #28: |
TheGoldenEel posted...
Btw this is a tactic employers use, not necessarily an accidentThats a tactic that dumb employers use. If you bait and switch a potential candidate and they actually take the job, theyre typically only taking it short term. The employer will spend time and resources training someone thats going to bail at first opportunity and then the employer has to do the same shit all over again. --- "Sigs are for dorks."-- my wife ... Copied to Clipboard!
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PeteyParker 09/27/23 10:37:03 AM #29: |
I had an interview with Comcast years ago. While they were speaking about it, I quickly discovered that they were in fact not interviewing me for the 9-5 M-F analyst position that I had applied for and it was instead intended to be a customer service/sales position that had fluctuating shift hours and included weekends. As part of the interview they had some questionnaire thing so I purposely answered yes to all of the questions like "I'm only here until I find another job", "I don't plan to be here long", etc. They said thanks but no thanks after that but honestly I wouldn't even have taken the job if they did end up offering it to me and they completely wasted my time. Thankfully I found a job shortly after and I've been there since.
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CableZL 09/27/23 10:39:58 AM #30: |
Smallville posted...
So what? Interviewers really like asking about that stuff. Ask yourself this, those hard tech questions in that interview, you would have used that stuff all the time if you were hired there? I'm a network engineer now. Those are some of the most basic tech questions for a network operations center job. Yes, I would have used that stuff all the time if I was hired there. Question 1, regarding the OSI model:
Question 2, regarding the subnet mask:
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Bass 09/27/23 10:42:53 AM #31: |
It wasn't too bad, but I absolutely botched the phone screening portion. Interviews already make me nervous and so do phones, so I kept forgetting information. Didn't sound too smart, I imagine.
Oh well, I got a better job not long after anyway. --- Many Bothans died to bring you this post. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MacadamianNut3 09/27/23 10:43:34 AM #32: |
Interviewed for a research position at Google but instead of talking about research or how any of the shit I did in the last 5+ years of grad school was applicable, I got leetcode questions. I didn't get a PhD to be a code monkey, otherwise I would've been satisfied with a bachelors or masters
So that interview went terrible, but for some reason Google kept on hounding me after that to interview again up until the tech layoffs --- Roll Tide & Go Irish ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Smackems 09/27/23 10:44:53 AM #33: |
We will find out in about an hour
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Hayame_Zero 09/27/23 10:51:30 AM #34: |
An interview at McDonald's where she said "Why would you mention something like that in an interview?", and the interview pretty much ended right there. I literally can't remember what I said to prompt that response though. Weirdly, I remembered at one point what I said, but I guess my brain has blocked it out or something.
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ArtiRock 09/27/23 10:53:12 AM #35: |
When they try to make technical interviews and they last like 1 hour+. I'm the interview I ended up cutting it off and leaving because I was bored from being asked basic questions.
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Karovorak 09/27/23 10:53:20 AM #36: |
Had a phone interview during corona.
Interviewer: "We will now do a little play, I am going to act as a customer, who has a problem, and wants you to solve it. For this, we suppose you already know each other perfectly well, so we don't need any introduction or anything at all, it's a customer and a company you know well, just go straight to the topic." Interviewer of course acts like the biggest idiot of a customer as possible, saying stuff like "when I click this, there comes an error message", and I ask, step by step, about the imaginary issue to get at least some information. In the end, it was an absolute non-issue. Don't even know what anymore. Interviewer: "Your mistake was that you didn't tried to learn about the customer and his company. You were focused on the issue at hand, and tried to solve it, but didn't show any interest about his business." I didn't get the job, and I was seriously angry at every one involved for the trap and for me falling into it. --- Planning is the process of replacing chance with error. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Karovorak 09/27/23 11:01:13 AM #37: |
Another strange one:
I was still in high school and was looking for a summor job for a month, but already a technical one in software development. Had some interviews at that time already, and this was extremly short term. Like, calling me on Monday if I'm still interested for the job, and if I could not visit them tomorrow. In this case, it was a decently big company. Known by everyone in the country and also an international brand (but less known). Yeah, I went over and was met by an HR sunny boy. There was no interview. He just handed me the contract with everything as expected and hired me without any real question at all on the spot. --- Planning is the process of replacing chance with error. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Lukey_Bug 09/27/23 11:02:01 AM #38: |
Oh I remember another one. I was 18 interviewing at Macys and the interview went well and at the end when she basically said I had the job she asked me what I would do if I saw someone doing drugs on the job I had completely spaced out (no I wasnt high I just space out easily) I had no idea what she had just asked me and I said something nonsensical I cant remember. Suffice it to say I did not get it lol
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kirbyy 09/27/23 11:20:48 AM #39: |
Was for a research master. Things were going well till they asked me which statistical analyses I used for my thesis. Had no clue (wasn't really into the statistical side of things) and the whole conversation just shut down inmediately lol. In hindsight I probably should've brushed up on that
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Prestoff 09/27/23 11:32:12 AM #40: |
It was for Panda Express as a cashier and line cook. I tried to break the ice so I assumed the young women in his photo was his daughter when it was in fact his wife. Made the interview awkward and I definitely knew why I never got a callback after it lol. This was when I just graduated from highschool and wanted a summer job. Eventually got it as a Pre-Loader for UPS.
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MC_BatCommander 09/27/23 11:34:53 AM #41: |
I was interviewing for some position with the state's social services department. Interview consisted of 5 people all asking me questions one after the other, no conversation. As I would answer the question they'd silently take notes until eventually I would stop talking while they continue to write notes. It was really weird and completely threw me off. At one point I sat there completely silent for at least 20 seconds while waiting for the next question.
Strange experience, they didn't hire me lol --- The Legend is True! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Crimson_Corsair 09/27/23 11:35:46 AM #42: |
Umbreon posted...
I got the job. --- My head's not torn off, my sunglasses aren't broken. Amen, hallelujah, peanut butter. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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firedoom666 09/27/23 11:40:37 AM #43: |
I had an interview for a top networking administrator for the county sheriff's office. I was woefully unqualified, hell I did not even meet the minimum qualifications so I have no idea why I was brought in for an interview.
Frankly the interview was fine everyone was nice, but most of my answers were "I have no idea" --- We're on a journey to forever! Dreams eternal in a wondrous world without walls We are Forever, wondering what the future holds ... Copied to Clipboard!
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K181 09/27/23 11:59:29 AM #44: |
Five or six years back, I interviewed an applicant for a security guard position at my hospital. Former cop, had short stints as a security guard elsewhere, on paper seemed like a perfectly acceptable applicant.
Within fifteen seconds of his butt sitting down in my office, he voluntarily outed himself as an absolutely hardcore Trumper, and kept bringing it up at basically every opportunity for the next few minutes when, believe me, there is nothing remotely political about the position. Then he starts talking about how bad vaccines are (this was pre-covid) and asking if this place performed abortions as well, with him being visibly heated with each passing moment as he kept talking himself into a crazy corner. He then erupted into shouting when I told him we were probably not going to offer him a position, at which point an actual security guard stepped in to give the guy a glare which settled him down as the good guard had a foot and about a hundred pounds of muscle on him. As he was escorted out, he faked that he was hit, threatened to sue, and in the same instant took a swing at a second, shorter security guard that had also stepped in to assist. Our two security guards proceeded to take him to the ground and held him there until police arrested him. He was charged and a restraining order was placed on him for everybody and everything associated with the hospital. Before it could go to trial, he committed a pretty bad assault on a neighbor of his and he is in jail for a couple more years as of last check. --- Irregardless, for all intensive purposes, I could care less. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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pojr 09/27/23 12:04:46 PM #45: |
i interviewed for an AT&T store location, and the recruiter asked me a loaded question. it threw me off, because it was a pretty innocent interview until that point and i was caught off guard. because i was shook, i lost confidence and i began stumbling on my words. i received an email a few days later that i didn't receive the job. looking back, i'm glad because that would have been a terrible job lol.
she asked something like "if you were there for X amount of years, why didn't you improve in Y field?" --- pojr I summon it. You spell it. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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bigtiggie23 09/27/23 12:05:39 PM #46: |
I had a phone interview trying to get a job as a server at this new Cafe that was opening when I was younger. The guy asked me if I had experience and when I said not exactly he then asked why would he even think about hiring me. I responded by saying it was taking food to a table not performing surgery. Of course he immediately hung up. I later found out when my friend's girlfriend got a job there it was two guys a manager and his cook buddy who were only looking to hire young girls so they could try to pick them up constantly. The cafe didn't last 3 months.
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LoveLikeJazz 09/27/23 12:06:37 PM #47: |
K181 posted...
Five or six years back, I interviewed an applicant for a security guard position at my hospital. Former cop, had short stints as a security guard elsewhere, on paper seemed like a perfectly acceptable applicant.Jesus lmao --- PSN: LoveLikeJazz https://soundcloud.com/pacuta ... Copied to Clipboard!
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CableZL 09/27/23 12:08:38 PM #48: |
K181 posted...
Five or six years back, I interviewed an applicant for a security guard position at my hospital. Former cop, had short stints as a security guard elsewhere, on paper seemed like a perfectly acceptable applicant. DAMN --- https://i.imgtc.com/d9Fc4Qq.gif https://i.imgtc.com/BKHTxYq.gif https://i.imgtc.com/vYYIuDx.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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TMOG 09/27/23 12:10:19 PM #49: |
Former friend had his superior at a pyramid scheme (sorry, "MLM company") call me and try to recruit me, despite constantly telling this friend that I don't want to get involved and that he was being scammed. Intentionally tanked that interview, called the guy a scammer who knew he was in a pyramid scheme taking advantage of people, and ended the friendship as soon as I hung up. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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LoveLikeJazz 09/27/23 12:16:40 PM #50: |
TMOG posted...
Former friend had his superior at a pyramid scheme (sorry, "MLM company") call me and try to recruit me, despite constantly telling this friend that I don't want to get involved and that he was being scammed.I knew a coworker years ago who tried to recruit me to some stupid pyramid scheme as well. He somehow got my number from somebody (me and this guy hardly ever spoke, but we were friendly in passing), called me and left a voicemail. He said he was just hanging out with his business partner "gaming" (trying to lure me in) and that they were talking about this startup idea and my name came up. Lmao I didn't even know the guy, but my name came up. I never responded or talked to him about it. I continued seeing him around for a few years and it was like it never happened. --- PSN: LoveLikeJazz https://soundcloud.com/pacuta ... Copied to Clipboard!
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