Comments on: That was easy! Very odd job interview

By: Bart Van Brabant

Bart Van Brabant — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:18:30 +0000

Once I was invited for a whole day of thorough testing. Although I am not so keen on this types of job hunts I went in. I enjoyed myself very much on the various simulations and psycho tests, but some of them were very difficult to say the least.

At the end of the day I was dismissed (not so polite) because I did not pass the mark and was not invited for a job interview. Ok – no problem, I thought some of the test very heavy.

The next day however, I was called by the HR department – I excelled in the tests and they wanted to invite me for a next step. When I inquired about the story of the previous day, I was told there was something wrong with the computer system.

I did not pursue the job any further

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:16:11 +0000

I was supposed to be interviewed by 2 people from a large telecoms company (I’ll call then Colin & Jane for the sake of the story). About 15 minutes late, the 1st interviewer arrived and said “Andy, good to meet you, let’s go and talk”, we sat down and I said “I Jane not coming” he replied “No, I’m sorry, she’s busy”. I thought how unfortunate/rude but never mind, carry on!

After about an hour, he said, let me arrange a tour for you.

On walking to meet someone to show me around, he stopped and introduced me to “Colin” – I said “so who are you?” – he said “my name is Dave”! I looked at Colin and “said weren’t you supposed to be interviewing me?” – he said “Oh we just sent Dave, if he says your ok, we’ll get you back in for a proper interview with both of us. Bear in mind I had driven over 100 miles to get to the interview!

I (not very poiltely I’m afraid) made my excuses and left, I also made a formal complaint to their HR system which illicited a mealy mouthed reply with a distant apology.

By: mandy

mandy — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:21:05 +0000

I once went for an interview where I was shown around and then told I would have to come back for the actual interview when a key member of staff returned from annual leave. Two weeks later I was duly ushered into a room to wait, with the words “don’t worry his bark is worse than his bite”. ‘He’ entered the room and said “they’ve already decided they want you. I hope you’re not a vegetarian I’ve brought you a beef sandwich.”

By: H.-P.

H.-P. — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:09:10 +0000

…comes up fine so far in Firefox as well.

Colin,

Thanks for your site, discovered through LinkedIn, and your (Socratic) way of engaging the discussion.