When my dad was in charge of hiring in his department, he used to have the candidate wait in the canteen for a bit. The cleaning lady would come in and chat to the person. After the interview she'd tell my dad if they were a dick, because if they were an ass to "lesser" staff while sucking up to the boss, it wasnt an immediate rejection but it did show their true colours
I've worked somewhere where i was told later that the front desk receptionist got a veto on any new hires. If you didn't treat her right you would not get hired.
Story 14: That's the sign of a good boss. You allow your associates to be part of the hiring process because they need to work alongside who you end up choosing. If you have good people, you get good work done.
Everyone deserves a second chance when they mess up. One of my foremen at work used to be a meth addict and is currently on probation. His PO comes to the jobsite to give him a urinalysis and he passes per his usual. Genuinely nice guy and is always willing to teach people things. Hell of a sense of humor on him as well.
That's a shame. Most people with felonies just made a mistake and it shouldn't follow them for life like that. If you give someone the chance to change and they improve the felony shouldn't matter at all@@kano8
@@LegendStormcrowactually, someone like that does deserve to get better. do they deserve a place in your life? no! are you allowed to be hurt by what they did to you? of course! but them geniunely getting better and _being_ a better person means so much more than them still being a dick.
Some of the social tests make sense, like using potential coworkers to weed out abusers and karens. Others are less.... I get the idea of it being a pet peeve not to taste food before seasoning, but seriously Ford?
I think the logic on that one is supposed to be "You're assuming they didn't put enough instead of verifying first." Which... Makes sense, but feels extreme.
I have people who fix lights. I ask a question that would be hard for an electrician to answer, much less a regular person. It tells me 3 things: 1) Based on the words they use, how much they know about electrical in general. 2) How good they are at BS if they're not sure and 3) If they're willing to just admit they don't know. Very few say "I don't know". Also, if I'm interviewing you, that means, on paper at least, you're qualified for the job. I'm evaluating you as a person, not your skills.
The comic book one made me think. I probably would not think anything of seeing a stack of comic books besides, "Oh, comic books." I do not think that I would think to mention them, but I would not feel uncomfortable either.
Just to add to the topic of engineering interviews, not a specific test and I wasn't the final say, but I once worked on an R&D project with some questionable elements. Basically a non-engineer had some weird idea that they wanted us to try to make real, and it wasn't looking likely. Of the 5 candidates we interviewed, my vote went to the 2 who asked (unprompted) about things they'd noticed were questionable, and why we were bothering. Yeah me too, mate. Me too.
I went to school with a girl whose mother came in for a job interview. Walking down the hall, a broom was lying on the floor. She picked it up and placed it up against the wall. When she was called in for the interview, she got hired right away. The broom was a test. The others interviewing before her had stepped over it and left it lying there. They wanted someone who could figure out to clean up and think on their own without being told every simple, little task.
I'd recommend against the salting the food test in this day and age. One could argue that they come from a culture where the food is more heavily salted, and so they know a typical local restaurant won't have food to their taste. Thus, one could argue the test is discriminatory.
I have a “serious” email address that is just my name, so that’s the one I use for work stuff, and pretty much everything these days, but my ring tone is the main chorus of Telephone by Lady Gaga. The part where she sings “Stop calling, stop calling, I don’t want to talk anymore” etc.
I hope that Rusty wasn't the Rusty I knew. Don't know why he was locked up, just know he beat my mother on occasion, then stole her paycheck, what was supposed to be my first car (my uncle's 1976 Ram) my brother's winter coats and bikes, and all during the winter. He even stole mom's makeup. Only thing he left was his van, torn apart at the workshop. Left the title though. Oh, and that truck got reported atolen, so he torched it. Anything good about my childhood had a 50% of being within 2 miles of that truck. Rusty was a balding red head with the first name Rustle and a last name starting with G. Guy came out of Wyoming. You meet him, tell him he sucks.
I would ask what the time was, telling them not to look at the phone or watch. Making them use a analog wall clock, I was shocked how many people could not tell the time who passed uni.
Not a manager but the interviewee I had the hiring manager come talk to me and asked me about previous jobs I explained with confidence and i was hired on the spot My resume was kinda crappy due to jobs firing me and the manager wanted to give me a chance I wowed them and proved them I'm a worlthy employee I am still working there :)
I'm the owner of a security business. What I do depends on what position they applied for and of its a client. If it's a security job position, I generally let the front desk do an interview, as they are the ones who'll have contact the most with. If it's a supervisor, I do it and give them a basic security written test while having what would be a co-worker of the same position in with them asking the question. If they aren't applying for a security roll, I act as front desk to watch them, and have a random staff member do the interview, and I less in nothing from the phone call. If it's a client, I normally have food and drinks with them. I try to get them as loose, lipped as possible, to get as much detail out as I can. If they keep changing their story as to why they want security, I generally pawn them off to another company.
Commic Books, I would have asked if her's a reader, a collector or both. That would not indicate I was uncomfortable, demonstrate a curious mindset, and that I led others to talk about themselves, all positive aspects for an interviewee.
3:00 is so stupid but I knew it would come up. The idea is "you haven't tasted it, how do you know it needs salt?" but what he doesn't realise is that everyone has different significantly different salt sensitivities and restaurants have to cater for the most senstive (as you can always add more salt, but you can't remove it). People with low sensitivity know from EXPERIENCE that the default flavour is missing. I'd prefer to hire someone experienced than someone trying to figure stuff out for the first time.
When advertising a position I always asked for resume and handwritten cover letter. Didn't read ones without HW letter because even when trying to impress they couldn't follow direction! Not a good sign lol
Disgusting power play by you. Do you send a handwritten rejection letter to those that fail the interview? Working for you will be a nightmare because you’ll constantly be playing power games with people
The time I was responsible for interviews, I would give some funny tests :). Things that you either give a near-instant answer to (like how much is 256*256, or how to generate 0x5555, 0x3333, 0x0f0f, 0x00ff, or what does "~x & -x" give) if you know, or you won't. If you don't, I would give you hints and see, if you can figure it out. Also - a take-home test that you can solve by googling and thinking for a minute (or 15, because I would deliberately "break" the requirements), or it will take you a month to do. You'd either find it out - good for you - or not. If you don't but still solve the problem - it's not too bad, you have the skill, but... If you do find out, you would have to deal with the "broken" requirement. You can freeze up - stop your attempts at solving not knowing what to do. Or you clarify/fight for your solution - good for you!
story 20: but I'm like, absurdly fast. Please, it's one of my finest traits and you don't realise until I have smoked previous records out... Though at the moment I back it up with "in my (previous large job role) I went from stage 1 to stage 4, which meant going from the most basic front line "have you turned it off and on, is it plugged in?" to "alright, we're recording, let's get this error on and the document logs filed" then fill out 10 pages of error reporting on an obscure glitch for presentation to the bug team. - usually that gap is 2 years minimum. I went through it in less than a year during covid - when learning was through work-at-home which the site I was at had never done before.
Yeah I agree, if an interviewer is significantly late, like over 10min, then that's just showing that they don't care about their employees and are probably terrible people. It's got the same vibe as like, a girlfriend setting you up to do something that she knows you like and is allowing it, and then when you do it, she gets angry and breaks up with you.
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When my dad was in charge of hiring in his department, he used to have the candidate wait in the canteen for a bit. The cleaning lady would come in and chat to the person. After the interview she'd tell my dad if they were a dick, because if they were an ass to "lesser" staff while sucking up to the boss, it wasnt an immediate rejection but it did show their true colours
#29 will be a nightmare to work for. By deliberately throwing a trick question is re timing, he’s wasting so many people’s time in a power play.
I've worked somewhere where i was told later that the front desk receptionist got a veto on any new hires. If you didn't treat her right you would not get hired.
Story 14: That's the sign of a good boss. You allow your associates to be part of the hiring process because they need to work alongside who you end up choosing. If you have good people, you get good work done.
Everyone deserves a second chance when they mess up. One of my foremen at work used to be a meth addict and is currently on probation. His PO comes to the jobsite to give him a urinalysis and he passes per his usual. Genuinely nice guy and is always willing to teach people things. Hell of a sense of humor on him as well.
I just hope the commenter talking about an ex con named Rusty wasn't talking about my mom's ex BF. Guy was a PoS.
Sadly, for my business, I can't hire anyone who has a felony record unless they want to be a janitor. State law for my line of work.
That's a shame. Most people with felonies just made a mistake and it shouldn't follow them for life like that. If you give someone the chance to change and they improve the felony shouldn't matter at all@@kano8
@@LegendStormcrowactually, someone like that does deserve to get better. do they deserve a place in your life? no! are you allowed to be hurt by what they did to you? of course! but them geniunely getting better and _being_ a better person means so much more than them still being a dick.
@@skullsnbones_ Normally I'd agree, but woman "bee eaters" and men who steal children's winter jackets get no mercy from me.
Some of the social tests make sense, like using potential coworkers to weed out abusers and karens. Others are less.... I get the idea of it being a pet peeve not to taste food before seasoning, but seriously Ford?
I think the logic on that one is supposed to be "You're assuming they didn't put enough instead of verifying first." Which... Makes sense, but feels extreme.
I have people who fix lights. I ask a question that would be hard for an electrician to answer, much less a regular person. It tells me 3 things: 1) Based on the words they use, how much they know about electrical in general. 2) How good they are at BS if they're not sure and 3) If they're willing to just admit they don't know. Very few say "I don't know".
Also, if I'm interviewing you, that means, on paper at least, you're qualified for the job. I'm evaluating you as a person, not your skills.
The comic book one made me think. I probably would not think anything of seeing a stack of comic books besides, "Oh, comic books." I do not think that I would think to mention them, but I would not feel uncomfortable either.
Just to add to the topic of engineering interviews, not a specific test and I wasn't the final say, but I once worked on an R&D project with some questionable elements. Basically a non-engineer had some weird idea that they wanted us to try to make real, and it wasn't looking likely. Of the 5 candidates we interviewed, my vote went to the 2 who asked (unprompted) about things they'd noticed were questionable, and why we were bothering. Yeah me too, mate. Me too.
I went to school with a girl whose mother came in for a job interview. Walking down the hall, a broom was lying on the floor. She picked it up and placed it up against the wall. When she was called in for the interview, she got hired right away. The broom was a test. The others interviewing before her had stepped over it and left it lying there. They wanted someone who could figure out to clean up and think on their own without being told every simple, little task.
I'd recommend against the salting the food test in this day and age. One could argue that they come from a culture where the food is more heavily salted, and so they know a typical local restaurant won't have food to their taste. Thus, one could argue the test is discriminatory.
The whole process is “discriminatory”.
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I have a “serious” email address that is just my name, so that’s the one I use for work stuff, and pretty much everything these days, but my ring tone is the main chorus of Telephone by Lady Gaga. The part where she sings “Stop calling, stop calling, I don’t want to talk anymore” etc.
I hope that Rusty wasn't the Rusty I knew. Don't know why he was locked up, just know he beat my mother on occasion, then stole her paycheck, what was supposed to be my first car (my uncle's 1976 Ram) my brother's winter coats and bikes, and all during the winter.
He even stole mom's makeup. Only thing he left was his van, torn apart at the workshop. Left the title though.
Oh, and that truck got reported atolen, so he torched it. Anything good about my childhood had a 50% of being within 2 miles of that truck.
Rusty was a balding red head with the first name Rustle and a last name starting with G. Guy came out of Wyoming. You meet him, tell him he sucks.
I would ask what the time was, telling them not to look at the phone or watch. Making them use a analog wall clock, I was shocked how many people could not tell the time who passed uni.
Thank you for putting the original thumbnail back!
Makes the video watchable!
From story 3, what mesma "put souls on their dinner"? English is not my first language
Salt, not souls, the captions aren't always totally accurate
@@jasonellis4330 thank hahaha
Not a manager but the interviewee
I had the hiring manager come talk to me and asked me about previous jobs
I explained with confidence and i was hired on the spot
My resume was kinda crappy due to jobs firing me and the manager wanted to give me a chance
I wowed them and proved them I'm a worlthy employee
I am still working there :)
I'm the owner of a security business. What I do depends on what position they applied for and of its a client. If it's a security job position, I generally let the front desk do an interview, as they are the ones who'll have contact the most with. If it's a supervisor, I do it and give them a basic security written test while having what would be a co-worker of the same position in with them asking the question. If they aren't applying for a security roll, I act as front desk to watch them, and have a random staff member do the interview, and I less in nothing from the phone call. If it's a client, I normally have food and drinks with them. I try to get them as loose, lipped as possible, to get as much detail out as I can. If they keep changing their story as to why they want security, I generally pawn them off to another company.
Commic Books, I would have asked if her's a reader, a collector or both. That would not indicate I was uncomfortable, demonstrate a curious mindset, and that I led others to talk about themselves, all positive aspects for an interviewee.
3:00 is so stupid but I knew it would come up. The idea is "you haven't tasted it, how do you know it needs salt?" but what he doesn't realise is that everyone has different significantly different salt sensitivities and restaurants have to cater for the most senstive (as you can always add more salt, but you can't remove it). People with low sensitivity know from EXPERIENCE that the default flavour is missing. I'd prefer to hire someone experienced than someone trying to figure stuff out for the first time.
When advertising a position I always asked for resume and handwritten cover letter. Didn't read ones without HW letter because even when trying to impress they couldn't follow direction! Not a good sign lol
Disgusting power play by you. Do you send a handwritten rejection letter to those that fail the interview?
Working for you will be a nightmare because you’ll constantly be playing power games with people
The time I was responsible for interviews, I would give some funny tests :). Things that you either give a near-instant answer to (like how much is 256*256, or how to generate 0x5555, 0x3333, 0x0f0f, 0x00ff, or what does "~x & -x" give) if you know, or you won't. If you don't, I would give you hints and see, if you can figure it out. Also - a take-home test that you can solve by googling and thinking for a minute (or 15, because I would deliberately "break" the requirements), or it will take you a month to do. You'd either find it out - good for you - or not. If you don't but still solve the problem - it's not too bad, you have the skill, but... If you do find out, you would have to deal with the "broken" requirement. You can freeze up - stop your attempts at solving not knowing what to do. Or you clarify/fight for your solution - good for you!
bro, did this guy play Kaz in that one creepy pasta that just came out? Like seriously their voices sound almost exactly the same.
story 20: but I'm like, absurdly fast. Please, it's one of my finest traits and you don't realise until I have smoked previous records out...
Though at the moment I back it up with "in my (previous large job role) I went from stage 1 to stage 4, which meant going from the most basic front line "have you turned it off and on, is it plugged in?" to "alright, we're recording, let's get this error on and the document logs filed" then fill out 10 pages of error reporting on an obscure glitch for presentation to the bug team. - usually that gap is 2 years minimum. I went through it in less than a year during covid - when learning was through work-at-home which the site I was at had never done before.
2:58 What? "Souls" on their dinner?
And hence, I am self-employed.
I love the first story 😊
There’s like 4 different voices all from one person
ACTUALLY I have a story for you but I rather have my name not said
They never say the names anyway??
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Yeah I agree, if an interviewer is significantly late, like over 10min, then that's just showing that they don't care about their employees and are probably terrible people.
It's got the same vibe as like, a girlfriend setting you up to do something that she knows you like and is allowing it, and then when you do it, she gets angry and breaks up with you.
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