What's the worst interview you've ever had?

[JoJoGabor]

One of the most excrutiatingly funny moments of my life was interviewing a recent graduate and how he knew he liked working in IT. I cant remember his exact words, he was trying to say he built stuff at home and enjoyed it but he said "I like to play with myself at home". It must have been a good 3 - 4 mins of sniggering before either myself or the HR girl could speak to ask the next question

[TestMangler]

Twas back in the old days (1999) when contracts were plentiful and this habit people have developed of wanting to stay somewhere until they got physically dragged out the door had not been heard of. I'd had a permmie job until '94 and was having the time of my life contracting and moving around, working in different places every 6-9 months, but also going back to places I'd been after working somewhere else.

Barclays in Glasgow, start of the interview, gave me a spiel about needing references for everywhere I'd worked in the last five years. I smirked and said 'good luck with that'. A minor, but slightly heated 'difference of opinion' ensued about what a contractor actually does and why clients use them.

Main interview bod asked me how we should move on from this. I thought for a minute or two and said, "My suggestion for a solution would be that I leave and you interview your next candidate."

Happy days, contracts were plentiful back then.....

[texto]

Recently I went along to see a client I had worked at about 4 years ago. I had help set up a system there and was working there for about a year putting things together.

There was two of them, both brought in after I had left. I was there about an hour and all went well. On the way back to the foyer one of them told me that the processes/coding I had created for this system, was some of the best work he had ever seen and the subsequent work on the system was all based around my initial work.

Once I managed to get my head out of the door and myself on the tube I was quietly confident of an offer.

They chose someone else.

That's probably because they felt threatened by hiring someone more experienced than them.

[northernladuk]

Twas back in the old days (1999) when contracts were plentiful and this habit people have developed of wanting to stay somewhere until they got physically dragged out the door had not been heard of. I'd had a permmie job until '94 and was having the time of my life contracting and moving around, working in different places every 6-9 months, but also going back to places I'd been after working somewhere else.

Barclays in Glasgow, start of the interview, gave me a spiel about needing references for everywhere I'd worked in the last five years. I smirked and said 'good luck with that'. A minor, but slightly heated 'difference of opinion' ensued about what a contractor actually does and why clients use them.

Main interview bod asked me how we should move on from this. I thought for a minute or two and said, "My suggestion for a solution would be that I leave and you interview your next candidate."

Happy days, contracts were plentiful back then.....

Knowing you that isn't the response I expected.

[Gittins Gal]

What a load of utter crap.

What happened to him or his post?

[kal]

Years ago. Permie interview. Agent told me yeh its in the south west but interview is in London.

So, £100+ on train. 2nd question - So you'd plan to relocate to london then? I guess they saw the look on my face and I told them I thought it was South West. End of interview.

Went nuts with agent. In the end, got them to cough up for train fare after he admitted it was always london but he was confident I'd like the job so much I'd be willing to relocate. Tosser.

What a twunt, I would have been livid!

[Dallas]

The interview was for an intern role (3rd year in a sandwich degree), it was 2pm on a Tuesday in the next City about 2 hours away.

the role was as an MS Access builder for ad-hoc reporting for an insurance provider.

At Uni, Monday night was quite a big one - traffic light pint glasses etc (do they still do that?). Resulting in me having to turf out chappy from last night, get interview ready with the one suit I owned and get on a train before noon.

During the interview I managed to empty the 2 bottles of water for the table, can't really remember much of the interview other than one of the interviewers looked like that Adrian Childs TV presenter bloke.

Started sobering up on the train back with increasing horror of what I must have looked like.

Got the job, and went out with chappy the following evening!
Then got a better offer in London and took that one and dumped chappy.

Oh to have so many options these days

[SpontaneousOrder]

The interview was for an intern role (3rd year in a sandwich degree), it was 2pm on a Tuesday in the next City about 2 hours away.

No offence meant, but if you had to take a degree to learn how to make a sandwich then how the hell did you even manage to find you way to the interview on your own - let alone get the gig?!

[psychocandy]

What a twunt, I would have been livid!

Wasnt happy. I was single at the time and he said he couldnt believe how a young single lad wouldnt want to move to london.

[TestMangler]

Knowing you that isn't the response I expected.

Well, it was quite reserved for me, I suppose, the usual invitation to pro-create with ones self was excluded on this occasion