Worst Job Interviews, Ever (companies, pay, agency, moving)

[bpollen]

Originally Posted by K.Uni

Anyone got one?
I've got 2.. and it all dealt with women being the interviewers LOL.

1. I interviewed with 2 women and right from the get-go, I knew they did not liked me or wanted me there. They were snooty and were straight up *******. They kept staring at me the whole time with stone cold faces and seemed uninterested.. needless to say I thanked them for their time and walked out lol.

2. This was a bit recent.. the interviewer was a girl that was the same age as me and is currently in the same kind of role I currently hold, leading a team of 3-4 in the dept. It started out as an interview but as we got into it, it felt like she was asking questions to take ideas off me. Idk, maybe I am overthinking, but she kept asking questions like.. "so if you were to run this program, what kind of suggestions would you have" or "so how did you run X at your current dept?" I also felt like she was on some kind of power trip.

Why are some women such bitchs (going to get **** for saying that.. hahaha)

Let's change out a word for the one you used:

Why are some [blacks] such bitchs

Why are some [Indians] such bitchs

Why are some [asians] such bitchs

Why are some [hispanics] such bitchs

Why are some [men] such bitchs

Hmmmm. Such statements remind me of something. Hmmmm....what is it?

[K.Uni]

Originally Posted by oldtrader

What you were having happen, was a young girl your age, and you felt it should have been an older person so you did not connect.

It is quite common to be asked how you would run a certain program, or how did you run it at your current employer. This is one way to find out what you know, and if your knowledge would be usable for the new position. Just because you say you know how to do something, does not cut it often, and when the person goes to work they don't really know anything. By getting them to tell you how you would run it at their place of business, is trying to find out your abilities, and experience.

If they did not ask you questions like they asked you, how else would they know what your abilities are.

No, I get that. But my current position and her current position is the same, a Recruiting manager. The role interviewed was actually for an associate role working under her. Why does she need to ask those questions? She was on some power trip, I'm sure of it.

[K.Uni]

Originally Posted by bpollen

Let's change out a word for the one you used:












Hmmmm. Such statements remind me of something. Hmmmm....what is it?

Hah, idk but I'm a girl myself and it's def something much more common around other females. Some are catty and snooty as hell, from women interviewers to coworkers. Of course, that's not to say all but my worst work-related experiences has always been with women.

[Rangerdude_Charlie]

Yeah it got started on a bad note. I didn't leave enough time I was running around the hospital trying to find the food service director. He basically used the entire interview to complain about how ****-poor his employees were and that he was so disgusted with their performance. He was sick and tired of only getting lazy people and just kept complaining about all his employees. I said to myself as I left I have no desire to have or want to work for a person who is gonna just use an interview to vent about how much one hates his/her job and then just thinks everyone is lazy.

[Retriever]

My most memorable bad interview experience was when the interviewer had no clue about the position for which I was applying.
This took place at one of Huntington Learning Center's local outposts, and I was applying for the position of Center Director--a position for which I was highly qualified as a result of my M.A. and my 35 years of experience in the field of education.

The young woman was clearly unprepared for my arrival, as she kept me waiting for an extended period of time while she shuffled papers. When she finally began the interview, she was under the impression that I was applying for a position as an SAT tutor.
While I am qualified for that type of position, it was not what I was seeking, and politely informed her of that reality.

Once I got the message through to her that I was applying for the position of Center Director, her response was, "Oh, I can't interview you for that position. Somebody else will be in contact with you in a few days". Because 10 years have passed since then, I guess that I shouldn't expect a phone call.

Incidentally, I didn't follow-up that abortive interview with a phone call simply because the experience left me so un-impressed with the organization that I decided I would be better-off if I didn't work for them.

[Thatsright19]

When the manager asked me what my biggest weakness was, I reached across the table and said "baby, it's you".

[Dane_in_LA]

Haven't done a lot of interviews, but one stands out: The HR drone had me do one of those ridiculous 200-question pop-psychology tests, then computed a "profile" and used that as basis for essentially all his questions. He was so very proud of this pseudoscientific approach, and I couldn't contain my skepticism.

Every time I tried to direct the conversation towards stuff like job requirements and my resume, it was back to my personality profile. Didn't get the job, natch.

[Poor Chemist]

My very first inteview out of college for a temp to hire chemist position was my worst experience. The R&D manager started off with negative experience questions like "describe a time in your academic career when you failed to accomplish something?"

Describe a situation when you and your coworker did not get along in the lab?" "Which one of your chemistry classes you had a difficult time in?" It was all questions about failing to meet expections or negative conflicts. I knew by the questions she was asking me she did not want to hire me because starting the interview off with negative experience or negative conflicts questions is not the standard and the questions got harder and harder.

After each response she would look at my as if I killed her first born. She was waiting for me to mess up on one of the questions but I know how to answer negative experiences STAR behavioral questions.

Nevertheless, I got a call back for another temp to hire position offering me a job and did not hear back from that lady ever again.

[LoriNJ]

Originally Posted by K.Uni

Hah, idk but I'm a girl myself and it's def something much more common around other females. Some are catty and snooty as hell, from women interviewers to coworkers. Of course, that's not to say all but my worst work-related experiences has always been with women.

From the sticky at the top of this forum: "Gross generalizations about any demographic are unkind and such threads never end well."

[Bluesmama]

This was a very long time ago. But I went to this very nice office for an interview and was escorted into a conference room to fill out my application. I'd been looking for work for a few months by then, so it no longer took much time to fill out the blanks.

Probably not even 3 minutes into it the interviewer popped her head in and asked if I was finished yet. I froze inside because I immediately took that as a red flag. Bad feeling. She came back in a couple of minutes later as I was about finished, and I think she took the application before I even signed it. The woman was obviously in a big hurry.

Sitting in front of her was painful. She wore a very plastic smile and I just didn't like her, and perhaps it showed. Nothing inappropriate was said - it was just awkward. I was not offered the job but didn't want to work there, anyway.