#bad interview

[starryknight63]

Y’know I had thought I had seen some pretty bad interviews with Christopher Eccleston and with other actors from Doctor who and other media I like but oh my GOD. Watched one with Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen that was so.. cheesy and awkward the other day but was too bad if anything just a bit much cause it was for “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and they kept like splicing the interview with shots from the trailer every five minutes. Like yeah I cringed a little bit at some point but holy fuck I think I found the worst interview/promotion for a film, I’ve ever watched:

This is so bad. Hayden is so charming still somehow but it’s so potent in its awkwardness that it’s like a rotting whale carcass on a beach getting ready to blow. This couple is insufferable especially the husband holy shit. Some days I wish I was an interviewer so that I could ask actually intelligent questions and be fucking respectful cause there’s so many interviews I watch where I’m like I understand why Christopher Eccleston and Harrison Ford and Chappel Roan fucking shut these people up cause OH MY GOD.

[jasmine-poet-of-the-moon]

Broke my own record by giving the worst interview of my life. God how can someone have this much abundance in bad luck. It feels unreal at this point.

I even upgraded my internet package. Right at the time of my online camera on the interview the internet started having issues. Mind you the connection was being interrupted the whole time of the interview. Finally they got pissed off and left after making me repeat myself four times cause they couldn't hear anything.

Sigh. How can I ever get a better remote job. This isn't the first time some unnatural like this has happened. I don't even know who to go and how to fix this.

I feel super demotivated.

[dustythewind]

Am I the only person embarrassed on behalf of interviewers who ask Martin Freeman anything about Benedict Cumberbatch?

No wonder he’s so sweary.

[hufflepufflephan]

Bad Interview

Okay let me tell you all a story about the worst interview I’ve ever had. So I had an interview for Hungry Jacks yesterday (DON’T JUDGE I NEED THE MONEY). I was on time, in fact I was early. I brought all the correct things and I waited patiently. Well.....

Two guys come out for the interview. I’d never been interviewed by guys before and I’m slightly introverted but I put it past me. What ever I think, I’ll do fine I think, I’m sure they are nice.........WRONG. So one of the guys was middle aged (and also Indian/ Sri Lankan, which is mostly irrelevant) and the other guy looked like he was in his 20′s. So far so good, they have asked fairly normal questions. BUT THEN: You said you like hanging out with friends, If a friend asks to hang out with you when you have a shift what would you do? 

Of course I say I’d reschedule with the friend (duh) and I know I actually would. The older guy replies with “That’s what they all say in the interview until they get the job” in the rudest and moodiest way imaginable. I was taken back by this, I wouldn’t expect him to say this to my face, it’s a rude thing to say even behind employs back. The younger guy continues to ask questions while the other glares at me through the interview. When the interview had ended another guy came in for his interview, and guess what this guy did.....

HE BECAME THE HAPPIEST MAN ON THE WHOLE DAMN PLANET.

So basically I’m pretty sure I didn’t get the job and also people are rude.

[superwholockmidna]

Don't take their shit just for a job

So last month I was going to a lot of job interviews, and I realized something after a particularly bad interview, not on my part but on the manager at the local country kitchen. YOU DO NOT NEED TO SIT THROUGH AN INTERVIEW IF YOU FEEL UNCONFORTABLE WITH HOW YOU’ RE BEING TREATED! I’ll share what happened to me as an example.

I have purple hair, both sides of my nose pierced and a few visible tattoos. At the beginning of the interview I told the manager right out that if she wanted I could take out my nose rings and wear a brown wig for the job. I was very kind and understanding that she ran a more conservative place, but thought the whole interview, which she must have already decided she wouldn't hire me, she proceeded to yell at me as if I had been working for her for years and refused to follow any of the rules and didn't show up for work. She mocked my depression and anxiety asking if  I would get “sadder and sadder until I had a mental break down” just because I needed a certain day off for my appointments. I went home hoping she would call me just so I could tell her how I now understand why no one wants to work there.

so if you ever find yourself in an interview, just remember it will not hurt your record to walk out. You’re not the only one in the room who has to impress someone, if they treat you like shit in your interview, you probably don't want that job.

[vyanarma]

bad interview

oml I did that interview that I was so excited about. Honestly, why did I even let myself be so excited? Because after 45 mins into the interview cto said "I don't think this will work out for either of us" fortyyyyy-fiveeeeee aaaaaaaaaaa 😖😖😖😖 There was still a whole half of the call left!!! and all I could do was to just sit there asking questions about metadata filtering like someone who had not just been told no. 😩😩😩

cto asks me what vectorization is. I knowwww what vectorization is. I have a ML specialization. I read about it. And when he asked me I said 'conversion of chunks into numbers' aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhrrrgghhhh. 😖😖😖😖😖 Why couldn’t the earth just crack open and swallow me whole then zip itself back up like in Dune but less icky and more like a courtesy exit?

the worst part, theee worst part was the design problem. He drew a scenario, thousands of PRs, how would you handle it. And he asked me TWICE. aaaaaanddd was basically handing me the answer. I could see in retrospect he was holding the door open and saying "walk through it." And I said it might be out of scope. in an interview. for an AI engineering job. Where the job description said RAG is must-have biatch atch atch 😖

i'm more angry me for not catching the lifeline.

I feel so ashamed by this that any person who even has just 1 bullet point about this on their résumé could've probably held a conversation. But not this biatch atch atch 😖

And I have a degree in this 😭 I did internships. I built agents. have GitHub repos. and I don't know what to do with that information? What an uncomprehending biatch atch atch 😖

The thing I keep not letting myself say is that I'm scared. Not about this interview specifically. About the next one. About the one after that. About whether I am going to keep walking into rooms and getting told nicely that this isn't going to work out.

It's not something that I can’t fix. I can fix the research gap in a few weeks. the fear is what i will invariably have to sit with

i graduated six millionn months ago. There are graduates who have graduated or are soon graduating probably already know this. Time isn't the variable. They did the thing and I didn't do the thing. Priorities are a biatch atch atch 😖

or atleast I'm constructing them in my head as fully realized engineers. They might be just as scared as I am. They might have bombed a different interview last week. I'm comparing my insides to their LinkedIn outsides, which is the oldest mistake in the book, and I'm still doing it.

The interviewer was kind tho. said he'd stay in touch, gave me real advice.

it would’ve easier to be a victim of a cruel interviewer than to be a person who got a fair assessment and didn't measure up. What a victim playing biatch atch atch 😖

What is this. it's not failure exactly because the interview is one data point. It's not shame exactly because I didn't do anything wrong. It's like. grief? for the version of today where the interview went well and I texted people. that version existed in my head for like a week and now it doesn't and I have to be in this version instead.

okay. I think that's enough for today. Have another interview tomorrow for which I'm a complete mismatch but what else can we do? What a people's time wasting biatch atch atch 😖

[learnordo]

Worst interview stories

For throwback Thursday, I thought it might be fun to tell a couple stories about my worst ever job interviews. The first one is funny in hindsight but the second one left a scar. Here’s the first story: I was interviewing at a major fast food chain for a corporate marketing job. They flew me out to their corporate HQ for this interview so I knew I was pretty far in with them. But the minute I…

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[blurrykins]

Employers to current employees: please give us a 2 week notice :)

Employers to those they're interviewing: wtf you mean you wanna give your current place a 2 week notice and can't start right this very second??