Smart arsed interviewers

[Marina]

Get up, apologise saying you will obviously not fit in to the culture here and walk out.

WHS (or "here here" for the old-timers)

[matt99]

Also, if the computer is travelling through a wormhole the next statement to run will be the previous one.

HTH

haha, I should have said that!

[FiveTimes]

One interview I got asked.... "Welcome John, I see your surname is Smith, that's unusual where did you get that from?"
To which I just replied - my parents...


Another interview for a 6 month gig - Where do you think you will be in 5 years. WTF I thought, to which I responded - "A long way from here". I got the gig

[ratewhore]

I once got given this long winded scenario by the 'technical' interviewer. He said 'would this work' to which i replied, 'yep'. He then said, 'no it won't because there is an embedded checkbox which is enabled by default so would mean it doesn't work ootb'.

I wouldn't have minded so much but it was for an architects role. Needless to say, I didn't want to work with an anal twat like that.

Nobber...

[matt99]

Actually once, I walked into one office and noticed that one person had an inflatable excercise ball at the desk instead of a chair. I said to the interviewer afterwards (we had been getting on really well), "Who sits on that thing, bit weird isnt it?".

He said "I do".

I should keep my mouth shut!

[Old Greg]

Actually once, I walked into one office and noticed that one person had an inflatable excercise ball at the desk instead of a chair. I said to the interviewer afterwards (we had been getting on really well), "Who sits on that thing, bit weird isnt it?".

He said "I do".

I should keep my mouth shut!

Should have asked if he was pregnant to smooth things over.

[TimberWolf]

At my first job interview I was asked by the manager (a great bloke who I ended up working for) whether I wanted to work for him as a contractor. I knew nothing of these things and insisted that I would only take a permanent role! Only years later did I discover that he was doing me a favour (being an ex contractor himself and with other contractors on the team). Instead I took the low paid permie position Still, 5 years later I was to put that right.

[Torran]

I interviewed for a full week once. 7 or 8 applicants a day

Interviewed this guy , he was ok nothing special but i had a lot of positions going so it looked like he was going to get something. I finished up with the usual "thanks very much for attending and the agency will be in touch in the next few days"

Went back to my desk filled in a few notes for 5 minutes and walked outside to greet the next guy.

"Good morning, sorry to keep you would you like to follow me"

We sat down in the room and I started off my usual opening speel

30 seconds in he pipes up "You do realise that you have just interviewed me?"

B*gger

[Churchill]

Can anyone brighten my monday with stories of interview questions that made you want to reach over the table and punch them?

When I was going for a junior-ish role. I was asked

"in C#, will the code in the finally clause always run?"

I said "yes, I believe it does".

he said "WRONG. It will not run if the server has a power failure during the operation "

KNOBHEAD!

Yes it will if triggered by a signal from the UPS. Of course, that's why we fit a UPS to the server... Not to save it but to control its shutdown.

Love you!!!

[EternalOptimist]

I interviewed once for an MOD role, my standard opening question

Does radar have a useful purpose in defence ?
Silly git starts talking about fence posts and wire netting and stuff, I terminated the interview PDQ. It was only as he was leaving that I noticed he was wearing a lop-sided wig that looked like a scouring pad