Bad Interviews!

[SallyAnne]

Chin up SA, I'm sure you did fine.
If not there is an opening at my house for a couple of hours cleaning a week ?

Would there be any "extra" duties?

[FiveTimes]

Would there be any "extra" duties?

Only if you want pet

[snaw]

Would there be any "extra" duties?

Helping out with the pot noodles.

[cojak]

<waits for the awful puns and obvious double entendres...>

[MikeB]

There's interviews where you get the gig and there's interviews where you get free interview practice and there's the interviews where you get to tell the horrific story for the rest of your days.

There are no bad interviews except those where you do no preparation and do not try when you get there.

spot on

[RichardCranium]

<waits for obvious double entendres...>

I'll give you one if you like.

[SillyMilly]

Their loss. Did you really want to work with people who've such poor judgement?

I had a bad interview a few months ago. The guy met me in reception and didn't speak all the way up to the meeting room and didn't offer coffee. Felt it was a lost cause before the interview started!

A female joined us; he said she'd be conducting the interview. She asked a couple of questions then he took over and from then on she hardly got a word in edgeways. At the end he chucked a few simple mental arithmetic sums at me!! Then he went - she was looking though a file, clearly angry. I mentioned something I'd done; she said "oh yes, I can see that, I'm just reading your CV" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heard later from people who'd worked there that I'd had a very lucky escape!

So Que sera etc. - you're probably better off without them. And the bag is all ready for next time.

[RichardCranium]

And the Bad Luck Bag is already cursed and needs to be replaced for next time.

Fixed that for you.

[swamp]

Did you lose your banana?

[realityhack]

I had a bad one recently - was more upset I'd weakened my good interview : offer ratio than anything else.

I almost walked before the interview began - they kept me waiting for 25min.

The lead interviewer was a proper snotty little polo-neck-wearing-tarquin. They specified clearly in the JD they wanted someone to come in, set up a department and set up the methodology, processes etc. So I played to that.

Feedback was I'd obviously worked in a very highly structured environment and was used to that, even though I ran through times when that clearly wasn't the case, and I'd set up working structures from scratch.

The long and the short of it is that after only a short time in the interview I felt like reaching over the table and lamping this jumped-up cretin - so it's probably for the best I don't get to spend any more time with him.

Oh, and trick questions... <insert expletive here>