56 Jaw-Dropping Job Interview Fails You Won’t Believe Actually Happened
I didn’t bother asking all the questions I was supposed to. We talked for a little bit after that, and then I thanked her for her time and called it a day.
I was interviewing a guy for a job in Thailand and so I asked why my company’s name. I wanted them to say something semi smart about our mission.
This guy says he loves Thailand. So he is only thinking location, cant terribly blame him. Then he asks where is the company located. I tell him. He then proceeds to tell me he is only familiar with all the red light districts.
I worked at a UPS Store, and on one occasion I was handing out some applications to those who inquired about our help wanted sign. This guy comes in seeming pretty average and asks for an application. I let him fill it out on one of the counters off to the side since it wasn’t particularly busy that day, and while he does that he receives a call from one of his friends. He proceeds to catch his friend up on the story about how he’s staying with another one of his friends since he recently got evicted from his apartment complex for harassing his neighbors and threatening them when they complained. Needless to say I tore up his application as soon as he was out the door.
I had someone refuse to work with anyone under the age 30. I was pretty stunned, being 26 at the time myself. I sat there and waited for an explanation, but she didnt feel the need to expand. I put her application form in the rejected pile as she was leaving the room.
Once interviewed a young lady about a data entry job. She didn’t impress at all in the interview, and i showed her the door. Monday AM she showed up to work while i was out, the other employees didn’t know what to do with her. I had to break the news to her at lunchtime.
Was doing a team interview at a credit card collections company (a number of us were interviewing candidates).
One guy came in and he was asked about his last job. He replied it was breaking the necks of chickens at a meat factory.
Trying to keep a straight face, one of other people asked him why he left.
He just shook his head, looked down, and said, “The chickens, man. The chickens.”.
Another supervisor and I were interviewing candidates for a security position at a larger company. We had three interviews scheduled that day back to back so being on time or slightly early for the interview was just as important to the candidate as it was to us. The first person showed up on time and the interview was normal. The second person shows up wearing a wife beater that had a lot of stains, baggy jeans with more stains, and sandals along with an odor that was not the best. He showed up 20 min late as we were leaving to wait for the next interview and was very loud and obnoxious on his greetings to us and then sat in the chair laid back with one leg over the arm of the chair. We asked the standard 10 questions and he either rolled his eyes and answered them with some sarcastic comment or took offense for no reason and replied with a question of his own.
After we finished he asked if he had the job and when can he start. We told him we have a process and after the candidates were reviewed we would contact everyone regardless if they got the job. After hearing this he started jumping up and down telling us we were racists and how he was going to sue our company for everything they own quite loudly. As we were escorting him out he begged us not to hire him as he was just doing the interview to fulfill his welfare payment requirements for applying jobs and didn’t want to work all along. My opinion on a few subjects changed that day.
A guy interviewed for a software engineering job at our place. He slunk in wearing jeans, t-shirt and white trainers. He was asked (as everyone is):
“Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”
His answer was that our company would be a stepping stone and he would expect to have moved into game programming before then.
I was the hiring manager for an entry level call center position. Call center turnover is fairly high across the board, so we were always interviewing.
I sat down with one candidate who was not dressed appropriately for an interview, jeans and a sleeveless undershirt. It also would have been nice for her to brush her hair before she came in. So I start the interview, no going back now. Her last 2 jobs were at adult video stores. As I am asking her about customer service experiences, her cell phone rings. I can accept that she may have forgotten to turn it off. She reached into her purse, I thought to silence her phone, but instead she answered it. At that point I expect a quick “I’ll call you back”, but instead I was privy to 1/2 a conversation. Her side of the conversation went like this:
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