So what's the worst interview that you've had recently?

Jan 28, 2021 5 Comments

Here's one from the fall.

For a role at Citi, the hiring manager admitted that he had a medical procedure earlier in the day, and he was still hopped up on anesthesia. He kept losing his place throughout the interview.

The interview was cut short when another Citi employee barged into the WebEx meeting and kicked me out.

#interview #hrissues #finance

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  • Blackrock

    It wasn't supposed to be a technical interview, the manager and I discuss my background for the duration of the interview, after it ends, HM decided to give me an LC medium. I start solving it, notice a bug in my logic and try to fix it, HM gets mad and says I'm doing it wrong and I had it right the first time. I get stuck, manager adds a line of code to make it work, never heard back
    Jan 28, 2021 0
  • New
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    Walmart.

    The interview was scheduled at 10 AM. I waited until 11 AM, noone showed up. Later at 12 PM, the recruiter called, apologized and asked if it is okay to continue or reschedule. I said I am no longer interested. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
    Jan 28, 2021 1
    • Investment Bank
      Glinda

      Investment Bank

      Glinda
      My partner had this same situation with Walmart in 2019; after it happened several times he said "no thanks."
      Jan 29, 2021
  • Oracle
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    Go to company page Oracle

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    With Amazon - Twitch
    Jan 28, 2021 0
  • IBM
    Keycaps

    Go to company page IBM

    Keycaps
    Nvidia. The manager called me up, and hadn't even read my resume. He rattled off a few of the technologies from their stack, asked my experience with it, etc. He had an awful accent that I had to ask him to repeat the same question 3 times.

    I still couldn't understand him, so I just said no to a few of his questions without even knowing what he asked. Finally, he then cut the phone interview short, which likely saved us both some headaches.

    I was thinking of emailing the recruiter with some of this feedback, but don't really want to work with someone like that anyway. Nightmare avoided.
    Jan 28, 2021 0