The best approach to deal with an Asshole interviwer
Hello Blinders, I bet everyone went at least once through an experience where applied for a really good job opening, then luckily you got selected for interview and of course got super excited, and not to waste the great opportunity you start to prepare well for the interview to make sure you give your best. As the interview date is approaching you feel more and more nervous every day, and all you got to do is to work harder and harder to kick Ass and get the job. Then finally your big day has come, you wake up in the morning and put on your confidant blue suit and go to the Interview. When the interview start, you just jump into it and try to be nice and express to the interviewer how grateful you are for such a great opportunity, then suddenly you figure out you are talking to an Asshole right in second he or she start talking. What would you do? Would you keep trying to be nice and do the best you can, or would unleash your ego and kick him in the face since the result is probably known already?
Idk, man, maybe they're just having a bad day or they don't know how to filter their thoughts. Stay positive and focus on the questions.
If it was just a bad day and the candidate were still gracious and gave good answers, the interviewer may be more inclined to give good feedback partly from feeling bad in a couple days
You sort of come off like the asshole. 1) you want the interviewers to shoot the shit with you without actually grilling you. 2) you failed to defend yourself on you own experience. 3) you blame that failure on the person interwing you and not your inability to justify why they should hire you.
Come on don’t be an Asshole and make judgements without having the full picture, you need to have more attention to details. In the post i did not share my re-action, so based on what did assume that i did not fight? plus considering not passing an interview as failure indicates lack of experience because the interviewee is not the only driver of the interview result , there is thousand of factors like who else in the interview pool, personality matches, culture fit, and finally the interviewer him self
From one Chase to another. You are being unreasonable. Uncalled for statements, which makes you sound like an asshole and you may not be one. Never directly jump to conclusions man.
It happened once to me and I stood up and thanked him for the opportunity and just left. If it personalities dont mesh, it wont work.
😂 that is a great move loool. I honestly do that if opportunity was not the best thing i am aiming for, or if i was not serious about moving jobs
I remember few years ago i had an interview with a small company and the interviewer was a real asshole who was coming across as if it should my dream to be accepted in this interview. When he asked me about my salary expectation i answered him “ wrong question sir, actually it should how much will you pay me to leave my job and join your unknown company” He looked at me as if i punched in the face loooooooool🤣😂
I would just play nice and make the best of it. Hiring decisions are seldom made by just one person so you’ll be better off playing along and doing your best. Don’t stoop to that person’s level. You’re better than that.
Do let your recruiter know. It won’t save you this time, but if there is a repeated pattern, people will eventually notice and take action.
Fidelity was the only one company I had an interview and right after I left the office I was praying that I really hope they don’t call me. The team was bunch of aaaholes! Good they didn’t called me. The girl who was my level said they leave after 8pm everyday. I was like damn for little more money they will wanna hire a slave .
Move on dude. I think by looking at your post they might have rejected for behavioral answers that you might have given. 45 mins interview, they won’t start with ice breaking stuff. You are there for team party. It’s job interview bro! Good luck.
Lol that’s nice and you know wells is better than Roku!
Be yourself
Tech HMs are notorious for interviewing non technical positions as if they are engineers. It’s built in to their process, best example is Google. Their hiring process doesn’t take into consideration other aspects of what makes a great employee like people skills. The fact they have the STAR method for behavioral shows how process oriented they are. Not saying it’s bad but it will not favor non technical candidates.
Not presume they are asshole without evidence.
I am referring to those who start the Interview with out ice breaking or Rapport and they start the interview by attacking you. I.e telling you, you do not have this experience, the answer should be sorry Asshole but you have resume why did you call me for interview and wasted my time then
Here's the thing. This kind of bad luck is built into the game. It can happen. Best thing to do is not respond in a similar fashion and try to salvage the situation. And next step is to try to move on. It happens to every single person. Interviews like life sometimes deals u a bad hand. Just wrong place wrong time. Move on. U will find better opportunities.