What was the worst candidate you have ever interviewed and what they do?
Someone else interviewed and someone else reported on the first day, such a waste of time.
How do large companies handle this. Usually people may be hired not for a specific team. Who knows who the candidate was?
how do folks identify such things? Given hiring takes time and multiple candidates are interviewed by multiple folks
They confessed they had no idea what to do and completely gave up halfway in
I don’t think that is wrong though. At least they were honest about it and they will come back stronger. There are so many people out there who are just fake as hell!
Nothing wrong with that.
Was a behavioral round, the candidate literally spent the whole interview trash talking his colleagues
Did you ask them to though?
The point is to talk high of oneself without actually trash talking the colleagues; it could be selfish, but shouldn’t be talking sh*t about colleagues irrespective of what the interviewer is asking.
This was when we still had in person interviews and at my previous startup. Asked a candidate a question to which he… pulled out his laptop and started typing something, not sure what. Worst thing is he still didnt solve the problem.
He used the text-a-friend lifeline
He needs better friends then
In one of the recent job interviews, in the middle the interviewee asked me, wait a minute: why are you asking me coding question, I thought this was a cloud dev ops role and not a software engineer role.
😂😂 was this for an experienced position?
He has a point
Stated they had 8 years of React experience, 15 years of professional UI work but couldn't even create a basic stateful component
15 years of Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V from stack overflow
When was this , react today is just 8 years old. May be one of those resume padders , if probed would probably say yeh 4 on calendar years but I was working2 jobs so 8
The candidate wouldn't let me ask questions back to back. They would just put the question back on me about what kind of work my team does in the given area (tied to my question). This happened 5-6 times before I told them I was the interviewer...let me ask questions, I'll leave you sufficient time at the end.
Funny because there's a tech yotuber that literally encouraged people to do this during an interview to make it seem more "conversational" and drive home the fact they were both excited and curious about the position. Guess it backfired....
A good reminder for why you should never take life advices from some random people on Youtube
Candidate mentioned that they didn’t prepare for the interview as if it were something to brag about, then proceeded to give me a completely incorrect answer with 25 minutes left in the interview. I asked if they wanted to test the code or walk through it again, and even suggested a test case that I knew would reveal a common concurrency bug in the code. They simply commented that the code “should work fine” for the test case I gave. The frustrating part was that the candidate came from another FAANG+ company and looked like a good candidate on paper. You still gotta show some signal of that in the interviews though. I understand LC sucks. I try to create interview questions that are half LC and half relevant to the job, but you gotta do the homework.
I bet you get more people just using you for mocks than you expect lol
And that’s completely fine. I have no qualms about providing some help. But if you’re going to interview, you still gotta make sure you can do coding questions. Play like you practice, as the saying goes.
Not necessarily the worst candidate but a strange one. The candidate started eating his snack from his lunch box. When he sensed the surprise look from me, he offered me to take some too 🙄
Take na take
Well did you say yes?
Candidate wasn’t the one who was actually speaking on the video conference
Wasnt background noise. Someone else was literally answering the technical questions being asked.
so he was lip syncing?