The video interview part reminds me of a pretty bad one. Had a final interview with the general counsel of a large company after several rounds of interviews. Video interview and he is several minutes late. He gets on and turns on his camera, but on my end I can hear him but the video is buffering. He apologizes for being late and asks me how I'm doing. To which I respond, just waiting on you to show up here, meaning on the video. He takes that as me being mad he was late and explains he was at an executive board meeting and could not just walk out for this interview. Didn't get any better from there.

Had one that still pisses me off to this day....it was an internal interview so it's not like I needed the job to pay bills, etc but it was a good promotional position to move towards. Since it was internal, I got a lot of feedback on the interview after being rejected.

The biggest complaint?

I talked about myself too much.

Can anyone tell me who tf I'm supposed to talk about during my job interview?

Posted this years ago but still haven't had an experience top this:

I replied to a posting from Texags for a sales role several years back. I did a phone interview with the person that posted it, and that went great. Did an in-person interview with the VP, sales manager, and a senior member of the sales team, and that went great. Came back to do a personality assessment test and that went well. The company then asks me to do a skype interview with a 3rd party consultant they work with to wrap the process up.

Don't recall what day of the week it was but the skype interview was set for 2:00PM. I was still working full time during this with another employer that had me spending lots of time in the field in the middle of the summer. I get home for the interview around 12:30 and my phone rings at almost 1:00, the number is a Chicago area code, same area code as the consultant. Having just come in from the heat, I am dirty, sweaty, and wearing a baseball cap, but I go ahead and answer. We proceed to have a normal conversation for about 45 mins and as we are wrapping up the consultant asks something along the line of "do you always wear baseball caps for interviews?" I respond that I was under the impression the interview wasn't until 2 but decided to go ahead and answer and that I thought it showed my ability to be flexible and put the needs of the customer first, yada yada. I sent a follow up email to thank the dude for his time, no response.

2-3 days go by, and I get a call from the VP I had previously interview with and he has the consultant on the line with him. Tenor of the conversation is completely different than the earlier interviews. What had been casual feeling and fun conversations in the past were now much more formal and tense feeling. In an earlier interview the VP said that a successful sales person should be making 6 figures with the company easily but in this conversation that salary range was met with incredulity when I answered that I thought I could make that. Towards the end of the call the consultant brings up the baseball cap again. I again explain that his call was an hour earlier than scheduled but in the back of my mind I was already feeling like this guy was weirdly fixated on a freaking hat. Didn't get the job, thank goodness lol! I have seen that company post several times since then and even seen a post from an employee looking elsewhere and unhappy with the company. Never been happier to have a baseball cap derail a promising interview lol

Bad interviews weed out bad companies for you. That's been my experience.

I hate all the games so many interviewers play. Just find out if the candidate can do the damned job or not and if they would mesh with the team.

Earlier in the year, I had my first new grad bring his mom to an interview. Like, into the building with him.

Had another parent send me a scathing FB message for not hiring their daughter. That was a first.

Hoyt Ag said:

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Earlier in the year, I had my first new grad bring his mom to an interview. Like, into the building with him.

Had another parent send me a scathing FB message for not hiring their daughter. That was a first.

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Wow.

I'm leading a group of small companies, but growth has stalled and ownership appears to be looking to wind things down. They aren't spring chickens.

About a year ago I got a referral from a friend and end up networking with ownership of a different company. Lunches and conversations go well over 6-9 months and they reach out asking if I would be interested in taking a similar role for them supporting the current President who is now overwhelmed as the company has grown.

Conversations go well, role and comp are figured out, and they ask me to meet with the President one last time as a courtesy. It goes horribly.

From the second he walks in it is obvious he doesn't want any help and he's overwhelmed on purpose so he can micro manage things instead of mentor, train, and delegate. He's a complete ass. Best is he offers a role more apt for early career in supply chain and tells me my main job will be in another state opening a new facility so I wouldn't be in the corporate office around him.

I noped out of there quickly. He and ownership were going to have a war and I wasn't going to be the pawn in the middle. 2 months later multiple people call and tell me the President has been let go and the company has been in chaos since I interviewed. Ownership is bringing in a new President I had never heard a single word about.

Major bullet dodged.

I recently had a request for references from the hiring manager, I provided them, a week later I get an email from the HR recruiter asking for references (as though I had never provided them) but stipulating that it could only be managers, and one was required from my current employer.

You want me to ask my current boss for a referral while I'm still working for them? no?