Worst Job Interviews Ever
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Have you ever had a bad job interview? You are not alone! Most people do. Some have many. And I've also had many. Here are my worst job interviews ever!
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Throughout my career, I have done many interviews - both as a jobseeker and as a hiring manager. I have also worked closely with both high-level and low-level recruiters and hiring consultants over the years.
In this video, I describe my worst job interview experiences as a jobseeker, and also present the lessons from these experiences.
This video is split into part 1 and part 2. Over the course of these two videos, I cover my worst interviews ever, bad job interview experiences, my bad job interviews, and all things to do with having a bad interview. The lessons I derive are for both jobseekers and interviewers.
So, if you have had your worst job interview ever (or simply your worst interview ever), take heart - it happens to us all.
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Have you ever had a bad job interview? You are not alone! Everyone has them sooner or later. Does it teach us anything? How can we avoid them?
My worst interview ever was for a sales job and I was being interviewed by the man who would be my manager. He was totally rude, he barked questions at me, groaned out loud at my answers and at one point buried his face in his hands. And I ended up getting the job! But even though it paid well, I did not take it. There was no way I was going to work for a guy like that!
I had an interview where I was so nervous I stuttered my way thought it and then proceeded to knock a large pile of papers off the interviewers desk. It's hilarious looking back, but at the time it was deeply embarrassing. I didn't get the job!
Man thanks for your comment, when I was embarassed it kinda destroyed my motivation to find a job, I was way too nervous about it happening agin.. I've been unemployed for a long time now because of this... I will go try again to find one thanks!
On one of my first interviews, year 2006, when all kind of shitty recruting methods were being practiced, one lady left a room for 5 minutes, when she came back, she looked at the desk, at some stuff she left there, and accused me of touching them. It was some kind of test, but I still don't know what it was about. Very unpleasant, she was so persistent, it didn't matter what I said.
Please turn down background music ! thanks for your awesome videos !
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Hello! I just wanted to send along a genuine thank you! I took myself out of the job market for about 6 months to finish grad school for nursing education. During the last couple years, I had different types of leadership opportunities at work and then was nominated for NSLS during right as I was finishing school. I realized I would be better in a different area and began applying for nurse manager positions. I got an interview and found your channel! I watched multiple videos, took notes, and watched multiple times! I felt soooo prepared for the interview! I received a job offer that I would have accepted, but I felt more confident asking for more! I didn't get the full amount, but they came up 2k/ year! I'm nervously excited to be starting in a few weeks! I'll be continuing to watch your videos as I grow my leadership skillz and work toward certifications! Thank you so very much!
Congratulations, Leslie!
@@TheCompaniesExpert thank you!!
I had two interviews where my would be bosses tried to undermine my value. Telling me im not competent enough, and in the same interview negotiating my salary. Scummy tactic, reduce my self worth so they can convince me im not worth as much as i want. One dude offered me 1/6th of my worth :D
If everyone had higher standards and refused bad quality jobs we would all be doing fine. It’s when you lower your standards that you are lowering them for yourself and everyone else. Because you are accepting disrespectful, unnecessary, time wasting, treatment.
I just got out of an interviw.. I really spent lot of time studying and practicing
But it was really the worst
Your video makes me feel better thank you
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Sorry to hear, Nova. You are not alone!
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Thank you so much
Was brushing up on my interview skills this week as I had a 2nd and 3rd interview. Thanks to you I was prepared for the why do you want to work here question. I also used one of your questions, which was asking the interviewer what they love most about working for that company. Thanks for your videos and your insight.
Just got out of an interview for some short course I applied for. I studied so hard for this and practiced a lot of times but I panicked and my mind just went blank during the interview. Came here to feel better😂😂.
Don't worry, Karen - practice makes perfect.
today i feel the same way what you feel 2years ago
just trying to relate 😅
One of my golden rules as a manager is be polite and respectful.
Another is you can be robust but never offend anyone on a personal level. Generally people will forgive robust direction but will never forgive a personal slight.
I had a medical school interview where while I was waiting, I overheard (from some distance and through a closed door), my interviewer screaming at the top of her lungs at her research assistant who apparently had run into some clinical issue with her research. I got to listen to a full-on screeching, expletive-laced tirade directed at a certain surgeon who had ... well, the details don't matter... for a good few minutes. The phone was slammed, she took time to cool down, opened the door all smiles and called me in. The first 15 minutes of the interview were pretty standard. She was on auto-pilot and I was giving pretty standard answers. One practices for such things. At some point, she asked if any of my family had matriculated to the university in the past. Some universities ask, and it turns out my father had been a graduate, so I told her so and which year and that because he had had a good experience, I was hopeful I might as well. For some reason, that touched a nerve. She felt I was entitled or something and laid into me, and accused me of lying on my CV. I had not. Such things are easy to verify and quick guarantees of rejection. The best part was that after this, I still had another 2 hours with student interviewers and a facility tour to endure knowing full well, this was over and done with.
Ultimately, I dodged a bullet avoiding having to go to a toxic place that tolerated people like her, but rejection especially at school that was supposed to have been a "safety" school was not fun.
One interviewer asked me you are a Chemist why do you want this call center job, I replied ‘because a Chemist knows everything and everything is Chemistry’. I got the job
😂 wth
Been watching your content for a while and I was thinking you were an engineer since you wear the pinky ring loud and proud.
My worst interview happened at this animal rescue center as a student assistant. I just completed a summer at a museum with almost the exact same job description and duties so I thought I would be qualified. When I arrived the lady had her office set up very strangely. It was very small and cramped and when you opened the door you would almost hit the front of her desk. So I had to sit in a chair on the side of her desk. When she talked to me she either stared at her paper or the wall in front of her. I don't think she made eye contact with me once, it was the strangest thing. When I offered to move my chair she just told me to stay there like loll okay. If that wasn't the worst of it, she didn't want to hear anything about my previous experience at my last job, and was very cold the entire time. Whenever I tried bringing up examples of doing those tasks she would just say "okay, do you have any experience either than that job?" (keep in mind this was a position that high schoolers and early college students took so why would that be the case). Anyways, got a much better job with higher pay the next week for the summer so glad that bullet was dodged!
Hiring manager that I was supposed to meet with didn't show, they shuffled me into their breakroom and told me to get coffee. I waited awkwardly for 15 minutes before another manager showed up. He told me that he'd also be my manager, and that he was a micromanager. Then he took me to lunch in his leased Lexus sports car and told me his wife was hot. I was so uncomfortable I almost left. All I wanted to do was go home, but I stayed and answered their questions to be polite. Wish I'd just left.
That's pretty bad..
I had an interview where the interviewer read paragraph long questions so fast like he was speed reading, I asked him was he short on time or already knew who he was going to hire.
I had a similar job experience as the first one you described, only it turned into the interviewer yelling at me for being unqualified while reading the cv for the first time.
Just had a bad interview experience today. It was for an account executive role and throughout the interview I just got this vibe from the sales manager that he didn’t like my answers and we weren’t connecting. I nearly during the middle of it was going to just say hey timeout I get the feeling that we aren’t really connecting even though I have previous sales experience out of respect for each others time it might be best to just end things now. But I kept going and we did a little role play at the end. He asks if the recruiter gave me a prompt prior to the interview and I said somewhat all it said was there would be a role play. We proceed to do the role play which is an initial cold call even though I was expecting that the role play would be more of a high level discovery type of call. Totally bombed it and he gives me feedback at the end, but we didn’t even do another role play for me to be able to apply what feedback he gave me. So basically he just wanted to tell me what I did wrong but even more so didn’t even say anything I did well at all. Dude was basically a jerk and the call ended 10 minutes early and btw he was 5 minutes late to the video call. Probably dodged a bullet on that one though.
omg i've had that "it doesn't say one you resume you can use a dictionary" experience! more than once!
I have had some terrible experiences Thank goodness I didn't let it sour me.
I interviewed on campus with two interviewers from a major oil company for a job as a geologist. The interviewers lied to my face and said that if hired I would be required to do exporation field more 80% of the time. I knew that this was not true. The interviewers assumed that as a woman that would turn me off. I answered that I would love to do that much field work. A few weeks later, word trickled back that these interviewers did the same thing at UCLA and a few of the women compared notes and then contacted the petoleum company headquarters and stated that these questions were discriminatory as none of the male students had been told these lies. The two geologist lost their jobs.
If an Interviewer challenges your qualifications, you have to politely but firmly dispute that claim. Sometimes an Interviewer is just questioning your qualifications to see how you respond. And sometimes they really think that way. If the Interviewer really does think you re not qualified, you aren't going to get the job anyways. (This is assuming the Interviewer has influence on the actual hiring decision).
I had a interview with health services and when i walked into the lobby, the receptionist was moody. She rudely handed me a clip board to sign in my name and the time i arrived. She seemed as if i bothered her cause she was on her way out the door for lunch. As soon as i filled out the papers the manager came out explained the job. Come to find out i was going to be the person that does a little o everything in that department including relieving that rude receptionist lady for breaks and lunch. No thank you. Not that lady. This seemed like a micromanaging position.
Substitute "job interview" with "coffee date from someone you met on an internet dating site" and the stories would be very similar.
You have made the sad occasion funny. Well done, love it.
I learn a lot from these stories of failure. Very interesting
Nice. I have an engineering degree too. But I wasn't accepted for any interships while I was in school 😢😢.
A local company can't fill positions because the facility manager calls you in for an interview and insults you while trash talking the facility and employees. All local job search groups warn people to stay away.
Also, while in a group zoom interview for a local bank with the area manager and a branch manager, the area manager would roll his eyes anytime someone answered one of his questions. It lasted almost an hour and you could see people were getting uncomfortable by the end.
Thank you for inside scoop this answers a lot of questions😁🤔
I had an interview where the interviewer cut me off halfway through interview. That was rough!
That time I got an interview at a company after I applied and after preparing for a week and investing hours into preparing for the interview five minutes in the interviewer mentions that the position starts in like ten days even though my resume clearly said in the first paragraph that I’d be graduating in May. A waste of my time.
You have a great communication style and one that I have seen used effectively by former colleagues who used to work in consulting. What kinds of resources or practices would you recommend for someone who wants to up-level their communication skills? Thanks in advance for anything you can share on this topic!
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Do you think being informed that the interview is scheduled only the day before or a few hours before a bad sign? I get it's remote now but less than a week prompt seems "improper"?
had the same hiring experience
My worst interview was for a position at a financial firm. I aced the first interview (in native language) and the guy that would be my direct boss was incredibly excited. Unfortunately the company was Swiss and while I was interviewing for a branch in my native country the second round was conducted by higher ups from the company based in Switzerland. My interviewer turned out to be some Swiss/French guy that barely spoke a word of understandable English. Worse, his understanding of industry standard concepts and terminology was clearly lacking which lead to his questions simply not making any sense. Whenever I'd ask for him to clarify what he actually meant, he would dismiss the question entirely (and I suppose assumed I simply did not know the answer, rather than the question being unanswerable). Needless to say I didn't get the job and the guy that would have been my boss didn't understand how.
Hi Bill! Can you talk about how you advanced your career as a process engineer and eventually to a CEO?
I just had a job interview today for a bank teller position, I’ve been preparing all week with answers and questions but the interview was so informal and the interviewer only asked me a few questions and proceeded to ask if I had questions, so I spent most of my hour asking her questions about the job and the company I’m very confused now 😐
My internet could not connect to the link for 10 minutes during Virtual interview.
I wonder if the interviewes considered me being late.
I had an interview at a call center that made me wait in the lobby for 45 minutes, then let me in the back and made me sit in a chair while all the managers on the floor hung out and talked to each other. An hour later I was told to go to a room. 15 minutes later the interviewer came in reeking of pot, spacing out when I answered questions. Almost everyone smokes pot at those places, but they all handle their shit right and don't make it obvious, but this clown took the cake. I'm surprised he didn't pass the pipe to me in the interview. I did not take the job, the red flag that was bigger than the interviewer is the call center floor didn't have the lights on at all.
My worst was a "record your response" type interview, no person on the other side or anything. Was a disaster I hated that experience and probably would not even bother if another job had that sort of interview process.
I left am interview after waiting 30 minutes for the interviewer. He never showed up so I just left. Sent him an email wishing him the best in his search for a candidate but that I was withdrawing my application and did not want to hear about further opportunities with the companies.
I just had a record your response type preliminary interview and it was awful. I can see why it is done as questions asked in the recordings were questions your CV would not be able to answer easily such as "what is your ideal workplace?" or "what is your short and long term career goals?". Still, very unpleasant.
I have been through all these situations. So I can totally related to this.
You mentioned, in one of your videos, a situation where you are required to wait an hour. What do you suggest, I wait ?? What is the message I'm conveying if I do so ?
i was applying for finance in certain company, and i was asked about marketing question. that's my worst experience. but the recruiter is nice tho
yes i had experienced that very worst no consideration
it's a common thing, unfortunately!
I just finished the interview. I am 95% positive they are moving on. The director did not show up. The manager was very aggressive in her tone right from the beginning. She kept providing negative comments after everything I said. 10 min in I was rattled and I did not speak well but I think it was because of her attitude. HR said that I would hear from the agency tomorrow so that is another sign. She was late as well. I heard from the agency 30 min later and yes I did not get the job.
Sounds like you dodged a bullet. Go somewhere where they actually have their act together, and also understand professionalism.
My worst interview was a 2 parter. The first part went well as I was interviewing with a genuinely nice guy and we had a great time. The second interview the engineering manager and CEO were there, and they were brothers, and it was their dad's company *ALARMS RINGING*. The CEO was obviously annoyed at having to waste his time on me, and the engineering manager ended up trying to bait me into saying that "if a job can't be done on time, it can't be done" because one of my references has said that "[my] hobbies sometimes interfered with my work" or in other words I'd can work and go enjoy life. This was after I'd come up with a handful of ways in which to meet a deadline when SHTF and it was looking unlikely. I was almost in tears when they said that and I'm 90% sure they knew that. They then promptly wrapped up by offering me the same amount of money I'd mistakenly told them I was on at the previous place and asked that I get back to them in a few days. I phoned a different former boss from my car in their carpark to ask if he'd be my reference instead and since then I've thankfully had nothing to do with the other former boss since.
Damn! Some bosses think they're God, really!!!
I had one case I accidentally sent a resume to the wrong company applying for a totally diffrent job then they were hiring for. When I received an email from them I was going to apologize for wasting their time but the email ended up being some really snotty questions they wanted me to answer. So I responded in an equally snotty manner. They responded by insisting I show up for an interview for what they did have open. The interview was interesting and lasted over an hour. I didn't get hired because our long term goals were to diffrent.
This is hilarious
Sir , what you are saying may be true , but WHAT IF THE INTERVIEWER JUST DOESN'T LIKE YOUR FACE ??? !!! You are sent by the HR department located in another city , and you are going to the interview at the company closer to your home. You are due to meet someone totally different from the one who sent you an Email/letter/ call to invite you for an interview then you go there and Ooh GOD !!! You are right on time , ready , a bit shaky but confident you have well prepared , in the waiting room , then the simple minded guy sends someone to look you up to see how you look like as he had a foreign name in front of him !!
Then he makes his decision in advance based on the information he received from his casing sniffer , then you can go to the interview room half heart knowing that the decision may have already have been taken on your application !!! You are NOT stupid , as you watch the body language of this poorly trained and prejudiced interviewer tell you silently ' I already don't like you and don't want you to be part of my team ' , he then shows signs of restlessness, and eagerness to see your back , as you are NOT the pretty girl he was expecting to see !!! Would you like to work for such dim witted person anyway ?????!!!!