But I could.” © jimmyjazz2000 / Reddit
I am in a high immigration city and deal with lots of international candidates, and have met a vast amount of people with titles like “Executive Director of Worldwide Distribution” or “Senior Vice President of Global Operations” from a company in Bulgaria or Cambodia or Dubai with no phone number or English website.
I have had more than one “CFO” interview for an entry level position who had never seen a Profit & Loss statement before. © takecareful / Reddit
One applicant did exceptionally well on the phone interview, answering all questions with apparent ease, so we decided to interview in person.
The in-person interview went shockingly horrible. The candidate was unable to answer even the most basic questions.
After a few attempts to simplify questions, I finally decided to ask him what was going on.
Turns out we had interviewed his computer scientist son on the phone, and he was simply hoping to skirt by the in-person interview with 20 years of experience in construction.
I tried to hire his son, but he wasn’t interested. © FrashAppleJuice / Reddit
I remember I needed a telecom engineer with very specific knowledge of a very specific voice system.
I was getting suspicious of this one candidate, so I started asking about the exact syntax of command lines, and this guy was actually throwing out made-up commands!
I was both fascinated and annoyed. © BaconReceptacle / Reddit
When they started making him technical questions, they noticed the audio went “out of sync.” They paid closer attention and realized that in fact he was not talking, he was trying to lip sync someone else who was in the room with him answering the questions.
They literally started crying when we brought out a laptop for the skills test and asked them to make a pivot table out of sample data. © C***_Pants / Reddit
I noticed it because they were really weird pauses and googled it myself and literally followed along like subtitles. © Shyless21 / Reddit
Anyway, have a girl come in for an interview, wearing a sleeveless white undershirt which was incredibly see-through, as I was able to clearly see the leopard print bra she was wearing.
We go back to do the interview.
At one point, she pulls out her phone, and I’m just gobsmacked. I thought maybe there’s something urgent going on.
Until I see a flash from her phone. She had taken a picture of me.
And then she started giggling like, “Oh, I don’t know how that could have happened.”
Obviously, didn’t hire her. So yeah, that’s probably the worst interview I ever had to conduct. © Rnorman3 / Reddit
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