I had a guy interviewing for a supervisor position.

we did the whole strengths/weaknesses thing and he barely answered strengths and for weaknesses.....

W: girls with big tits......



are you fucking kidding me ?

4/5/2016 5:43:01 PM

Honesty is the only policy

4/5/2016 5:44:50 PM

Wow.

Best.

Supervisor.

Ever.

4/5/2016 5:47:36 PM

that's hilarious.

4/5/2016 6:32:22 PM

Guy showed up for an interview in shorts and asked for my coworkeres # on his way out.

4/5/2016 6:57:10 PM

my mom's friend's sons applied for positions within my dept

One took the initiative to contact me and ask me for advice. I coached one on what info to look into, how to get around his zero experience, etc. I don't know exactly how it went down, but from what I was told, he did none of that.

The other one went in blindly. My two bosses ended up using it as a session to educate him on how to improve his interview skills

Good thing I didn't give them my backing

[Edited on April 5, 2016 at 9:07 PM. Reason : ]

4/5/2016 9:07:13 PM

Was interviewing a girl from Mich State for a management trainee position. We asked her what her pet peeves were hoping she would say something like "people who don't meet deadlines or are not punctual" or some shit like that. Throw away question really. Her dumbass says people whoi chew gum with their mouth open and guys who pop their collars. I had a hard time not laughing.

Also interviewed a guy once and we had a presentation the night before for all the interviewees. The purpose of the presentation was so our different divisions could present info on what we do and allow the students to have some basic knowledge that wasn't apparent from our website. Anyway after presenting, I introduced myself to all applicants, told them I looked forward to seeing them during the interviews tomorrow. Well this guy did not make it to the presentation and when he came in for the interview, I asked him if he had a schedule conflict or something the night before. He said no, just that his mom could not get off work early enough for them to make it to the presentation (company HQ is in SC, dude went to NC AT). I asked him why he came with his mom and he said because he didn't know how to drive. Yeah that pretty much concluded that interview.



[Edited on April 5, 2016 at 9:25 PM. Reason : Ds]

4/5/2016 9:24:28 PM

I've been part of a bunch of interviews lately with a manager who is running them and it's about to drive me crazy. We've had a couple where its clear in the first 5 minutes that the person is not going to get hired and yet he insists on taking hours with the person.

Had an interview with a woman just about a month ago who it was clear did zero research and had no clue about what we do. One of the first questions was what drew her to the job. She said the website and how it was made. When trying to get her to elaborate it became clear she thought we did web design (we do manufacturing software). Instead of cutting our losses at about 30-45 minutes he proceeds to continue the interview for 2.5 hours.

4/5/2016 10:21:57 PM

So I had an interview recently in which I was asked about how I would transition from an African office to an American office, and my response included a reference to how the director of our program begged us all to wear shoes for these auditors who were coming in from USDA. The line got a laugh, and one woman said, "Just to be clear, we do have to wear shoes in the office." More laughs.

Later, a question came up that I did not have a ready answer for. Basically it was, "Tell us about a time you fucked up, and how you dealt with it." I admit, I floundered for a minute -- couldn't come up with an example. Not because I've never fucked up at work, just couldn't come up with a time that had a good teachable moment and all. So I am talking the next best thing to nonsense, about how whenever I screw up I get all the info I can about it, make notes, study them to avoid doing it again, because the idea of repeating a mistake mortifies me more than...allegory fails me here..."more than the prospect of having to shown up to an interview without pants on."

Some more laughter, a little more subdued, and the same woman saying, "Again. Just to be clear. Pants are mandatory."

I did not get the position.

4/5/2016 10:41:39 PM

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"I asked him why he came with his mom and he said because he didn't know how to drive. Yeah that pretty much concluded that interview."

What was the job? was it somehow related to driving?

4/5/2016 11:28:34 PM

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"W: girls with big tits......"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvrcHpipzmA

Quote :

"Posted on guard duty at a jewelry store, Simon explains his defining character flaw to the shop owner: “Sometimes I get distracted by women with big chests—I might be looking at them or something.” The owner is baffled and wonders aloud why this is even a topic of conversation. It’s simply the honest truth, and on Nathan For You, that’s enough."

4/5/2016 11:34:31 PM

I just hate the interviewers who ask the "gotcha" questions when they wouldn't even know the answer if they weren't asking the question.

I had one like that, and he was all "oh you don't know?". I was like "no, but you probably don't about xyz either because its a propriety thing at my previous employer but it doesn't mean you're stupid".

I didn't get that job, but I didn't care much. It was obvious that most of the people there were douchebags.

#dontbeadick

4/6/2016 5:08:55 PM

i breathed some spit and tears ran down face in an interview once.

4/6/2016 5:45:42 PM

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""I asked him why he came with his mom and he said because he didn't know how to drive. Yeah that pretty much concluded that interview." What was the job? was it somehow related to driving?"

wouldn't need to be really, if you can't even take the initiative to get a taxi or uber for an interview why should anyone expect you to take the initiative in daily tasks?

4/6/2016 6:03:18 PM

SO i was telling the story to a friend today and he was under the impression that the guy was joking...

I clarified no, dude said he married his wife for her big tits and his wife doesn't worry when a dime piece walks in the room but if a girl with "huge bazoongas" walks in the room she watches him like a hawk.


He then said that most of his fights with his wife are over him looking at other women's tits.

I'm like what the fuck... what if we ever have a qualified female HVAC tech interview with him... he's just going to be oogling her tits the whole time.

4/6/2016 6:10:38 PM

Second hand story I was told years ago:

Back when smoking was common in offices, guy getting interviewed asks if it's OK to smoke. Interviewer says sure. Guy accidentally pulls out the joint he has stored away in his cigarette pack and lights it up before realizing what has happened. They stare at each other for like 5 or 10 seconds, not saying a word, until the guy decides to just walk out.

The End

4/6/2016 6:31:07 PM

After about 45 minutes, the interview is starting to wrap up.
The plant manager says "Just one last question. So why do you think we should hire you?"
The interviewee replies' "Well, because I am awesome."

After a light chuckle, and a little bit of small talk, the interview ended....







...And I got the job

4/6/2016 6:37:17 PM

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"wouldn't need to be really, if you can't even take the initiative to get a taxi or uber for an interview why should anyone expect you to take the initiative in daily tasks?"

An interstate taxi? are you fucking kidding me? This is a college kid and you discriminated against him then had the nerve to post it as a big fuckup by him. This is a major foot in mouth moment because you were the one who fucked up and treated him completely unfairly.

holy shit this is an epic fail

How is one to get a car without a job?

[Edited on April 7, 2016 at 1:16 AM. Reason : probably no laws broken though.]

4/7/2016 1:12:24 AM

Doesn't know how to drive and no car...likely miss many days of work bc cant get to work...wouldn't hire.

4/7/2016 1:35:10 AM

lol this fucking troll that the pussy ass mods won't suspend for some reason

4/7/2016 2:05:58 AM

i interviewed some guy that about five minutes into it said "Yeah, I'm not qualified for this. Can you tell me some resources to look at to further my knowledge in this field?"

i respected that. didn't get the job though, obviously

4/7/2016 8:47:14 AM

^Yeah, better not to waste everyone's time.

Out of school I had a day long interview with a group of other candidates, bombed hard early on a question about something technical but felt like I had to stick around the whole time even though I knew I had no shot. Should have just peaced out.

4/7/2016 6:38:19 PM

We had a quant applicant show up for an interview a day early. He had taken a train from lansing to chicago, and got off on the wrong train stop. He then proceeded to walk 5 miles to the interview.

He was wearing tear-away addidas pants and a yao ming t-shirt and hardly spoke english.

We still hired him. Apparently his R programming skills were top notch



[Edited on April 7, 2016 at 6:55 PM. Reason : M]

4/7/2016 6:54:17 PM

shoot?

4/7/2016 7:01:28 PM

I get the not driving thing. Is the simple act of not having a license a good enough reason to not hire someone? No, as long as there is half-decent bus service in the city. (I'm assuming nowhere in SC has light rail yet.) *But* is someone not making it to the first component of the interview process a good enough reason to not hire them? Yeah, I'd say so. It's an unfortunate situation, but damn. If you really want the job, take the Amtrak or a Greyhound maybe? Unless the HQ was in BFE and nowhere near a station for either of those transport options?

4/7/2016 11:46:00 PM

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"dude went to NC AT). I asked him why he came with his mom and he said because he didn't know how to drive. Yeah that pretty much concluded that interview."

LOL! My dad is a carpenter and through the years he has hired people to work for him. When he forgets to put in his newspaper ad "Must Have Transportation" he usually gets at least 1 call from someone who doesn't have a car, or got a DWI. One time his employee started out with a car, but something happened and he didn't have transportation. He quit showing up for work, but 2 days later showed up at the job site on a bicycle after spending 2 days traveling by bicycle.

[Edited on April 8, 2016 at 9:53 PM. Reason : .]

4/8/2016 9:52:05 PM

Interview for an internship. The kid was awesome, super smart, well spoken, and would have been a great fit.

So I ask him where he wants to be in 5 years. He says he wants to be something completely different, and that he's really only interested in working here for a couple of years because it will look good on his CV.

I was gob smacked. So I skipped the technical portion and just spent the last 2/3 of the interview shooting the shit with him. As we walk out he says "man that wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be!"

No hire. If he had just kept his mouth shut on that one question, he'd have been an instant hire.

4/10/2016 2:03:19 PM

i interviewed someone for a job and i asked them how they dealt with a difficult situation, where you've had to deal with a difficult person.

he immediately starts telling me about how he argues with his girlfriend coupled with way too many details about his life.

4/10/2016 2:26:41 PM

^^Make sure you don't hire anyone ambitious.

I love how many interview questions are just traps where you are expected to spout some horseshit instead of honest questions.

4/10/2016 2:33:43 PM

^ Yeah but that's business man, knowing when to look into another man's face and lie to them even if you both know it's bullshit.

Half the interview for me is understanding how savvy someone is and if they get how things work. Granted we aren't doing anything you need to be a genius for, but I'll take a lesser skilled person who knows how to play the game and is reasonable over someone who knows there shit but I can't put in front of a customer because they can't function.

4/10/2016 2:39:46 PM

^^,^^^^ I got turned away from a job at a shit company for the same reason once. Guy asked me where I'd be in 5 years and I said I'd like to be doing HCI research. During the interview I questioned their business model (small scale data center hosting) and suggested being a MSP on a cloud was likely a better use of resources for a long term future. Company folded about the same time I got into grad school.

I was interviewing at a pretty big tech company for a pretty high up position, but it was for a previous dotted line manager, so neither him nor his team could interview me. I ended up getting interviewed by folks in completely different divisions, none of them with the same job description as the one the hiring manager had. Had one guy who'd spent his entire life working on hardware refuse to let me answer his questions in anything other than C++ (not really relevant in the space), because nothing else was a "real language."

At this point I'm pretty sure I don't want the job, but I play along. He asks me to write a routing and ranking algorithm. I get to the end, pretty pumped I'd solved it and remembered enough C++. With this smug look on my face, like fuck you and your stupid question, I realize I wrote the exact inverse of what he'd asked

I just shot the shit and played with beta hardware with the other interviewers the rest of the day.


[Edited on April 10, 2016 at 3:10 PM. Reason : ,]

4/10/2016 3:08:13 PM

What do you guys think about negotiating after an offer is made?

4/10/2016 4:23:50 PM

when else would you do it?

4/10/2016 4:24:12 PM

I more meant, is it a normal thing? I've been made an offer, and its good as is, but I'd like more on the salary side.

It just feels awkward.

4/10/2016 4:29:37 PM

That's how they want you to feel. You should negotiate.

4/10/2016 4:31:53 PM

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"It just feels awkward."

They want you to feel awkward, but our economic system demands that you ask for what makes you comfortable. This is how the price of labor is set. When people talk about wage stagnation in the news, part of this is that people just aren't asking for compensation that keeps track with inflation. Also, for medium and large companies especially, that extra 5 or 10% might be huge for you personally, but is practically nothing for the corporation, especially if youre worth it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xH7eGFuSYI

[Edited on April 10, 2016 at 7:59 PM. Reason : my 2 cents]

4/10/2016 7:58:42 PM

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"I love how many interview questions are just traps where you are expected to spout some horseshit instead of honest questions."

Not that I cared too much, but I kind of got trapped when 3 people were sitting in front of me grilling me with questions during an interview. Out of nowhere they said, "What is your biggest weakness?" I don't even remember what my response was now, but that kind of sucked.

Has anyone else ever had that happen to them?

4/10/2016 8:54:57 PM

"what's your biggest weakness" is probably one of the most generic interview questions in existence... it's literally talked about in any google search on "how to do well in an interview". My last group stopped asking this question, or just asked it as a joke, it's become so cliche.

If you get caught off guard by "what's your biggest weakness" you don't deserve the job youre interviewing for (different from if the interviewer just doesn't like your response though).

4/10/2016 9:19:38 PM

^ That's a lie. Maybe if you're an pompous asshole you would feel that way.

4/10/2016 9:24:49 PM

Huh? "whats your biggest weakness" is an extremely common, generic, and cliche interview question...

4/10/2016 9:38:07 PM

So if you're interviewing for a job that entails like 14 hours of coding a day, but you don't interview as well as Obama, you don't deserve the job you're interviewing for?

4/10/2016 10:19:46 PM

If you don't spend 5 minutes googling "common interview questions" and you aren't prepared for the "what is your biggest weakness" question... I mean yea it's stupid but it is part of the game. It's a hoop to jump through, and if an American doesn't do it there will be an H1B Visa foreigner willing to do it for 70% of the pay too.

4/10/2016 11:05:05 PM

That was my point though. Like this guy:

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"He was wearing tear-away addidas pants and a yao ming t-shirt and hardly spoke english. We still hired him. Apparently his R programming skills were top notch "

I doubt he said he gets too focused on his work or he's too much of a perfectionist to the "biggest weakness" question

4/10/2016 11:22:28 PM

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"This is a college kid and you discriminated against him then had the nerve to post it as a big fuckup by him. This is a major foot in mouth moment because you were the one who fucked up and treated him completely unfairly. holy shit this is an epic fail How is one to get a car without a job? "

I haven't checked this thread since I posted, but what a damn surprise that Earl and his socialistic views got his panties in a wad about this story. Where to start:

1. Not having a car wasn't the issue, it was the fact that he didn't have a license to drive.
2. This job was an engineering position which required travel, i.e. renting cars, so I don't think we could let his mom tag around with him for the rest of his career.
3. Dude missed the function the night before on the interview. My company was paying for the travel costs of these interviewees so he could have taken a flight down and gotten a cab if need be.
4. How is not hiring someone for not being able to drive discrimination? Driving is a skill, he lacked this skill, therefore no job. That is like me applying to be an architect and complaining that I was discriminated against when I didn't get the job due to my lack of architecture skills.
5. He sucked in the interview anyway and wouldn't have been hired even if he flew a damn helicopter into the interview parking lot.

So explain again how this was an epic fail on my part and how he was treated completely unfairly?

4/11/2016 12:03:07 PM

Alright so for some reason dtownral answered my question addressed to you saying that the job did not require driving. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

4/11/2016 12:44:50 PM

Do you know how hard it is to fly a helicopter?

4/11/2016 12:56:07 PM

http://imgur.com/gallery/DERhyxQ

4/12/2016 4:00:58 PM

blonde with big tits is on ^ list .... me thinks OP exaggerated ? that or there's just a lot of fucking morons in the world

4/12/2016 4:36:14 PM

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"^^Make sure you don't hire anyone ambitious. I love how many interview questions are just traps where you are expected to spout some horseshit instead of honest questions."

His ambition wasn't the problem. And the question wasn't a trap. It wasn't that he was ambitious, it was that he literally spelled out how the position we were interviewing him for was a) beneath him, b) not something he was actually interested in and c) was just a stepping stone to his larger ambition.

This is a college intern. Most internship programs operate at a huge upfront loss to train and teach interns with the hope they will return as full time employees for a few years and we can recoup the investment as a business.

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"So if you're interviewing for a job that entails like 14 hours of coding a day, but you don't interview as well as Obama, you don't deserve the job you're interviewing for?"

Not the case at all. One of the other people I interviewed was so nervous he could barely get a sentence out. He had to collect himself several time, apologized profusely for being so nervous, and was so far out of his comfort zone that is was almost comical. But he was incredibly passionate, was able to demonstrate really good technical depth and problem solving, and was able to break problems down in a thorough and thoughtful manner.

He got an offer and was an instant hire from every single interviewer.

4/12/2016 4:39:06 PM

Most jobs don't need savants. Just got done with an interview with a guy who had technical knowledge but came wearing sweatpants. Probably not getting the job because he failed the common sense test.

[Edited on April 12, 2016 at 4:52 PM. Reason : ]

4/12/2016 4:51:06 PM