re: Worst interview question you have ever been asked? How did you answer it?

Employment service sent me in for a retail management interview.

While I'm waiting, guy asks me if the employment service sent me, tells me that they'd sent him too. He tells me to tell the employment service they're not paying what they promised.

Was about to walk out when they called me in for the interview.

I gave the most glorious, bullshite interview in history. I promised them I would be their top manager and top selling location with six months. We would have their region of stores at the top of the company within a year. When could I start? Could I come in tomorrow? LET'S GET THIS DONE!

The employment service left a message for me as soon as I left. "What did you do? They want to hire you immediately!" I told them thanks but no thanks.

Interviewed with NASA right out of college and this middle aged black lady was conducting the interview. She told me "their priority was hiring minorities for a few positions and asked me if I had a problem with that." Since I am a white male I said, no, but I guess that rules me out.

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I have read this three times and I still don't understand what was edgy, unexpected, or surprising about your response.

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Some companies have people in management with their heads so far up their arse that they don't feel others exist/you should screw yourself for the sake of the company as a baseline.

And those companies are also the ones who tend to treat their employees the shittiest and don't appreciate hard work.

I rather a question about the job/industry so I can show I know my shite and can relate to my previous experience

I am currently laid off and had an interview for a sales position. I do not have sales experience but a shite ton of customer service experience. The job posting stated experience preferred but not necessary, will train. I went through the 2 hour application online and 3 levels of assessments. Immediately got an email wanting to schedule a phone interview. When the recruiter called, the first thing she asked was "Do you have any sales experience?" I told her I didn't but tried to talk around it. She cut me off and asked "what did you see in the job posting that made you think you should apply for this job?" She caught me way off guard with that one but I managed to tell what the posting stated about experience and training. She responded "Hmmmm, we're going to have to fix that".

Most unprofessional person I have ever come across.

Which of the following best describes you, a hammer, a screwdriver, or a drill?

Me: I think at times each of those could describe personality traits either favorable or unfavorable.

Give an example of such.

Me: ugh....

I took an interview on my birthday for a job I was only mildly interested in.

This is two years after college and I had 3 years of legit sales experience.

After a weird paper test, the interviewer proceeds to say "Tell me about high school."

Me: "Are you serious, I don't see how that is relevant."

She just stares at me.

I politely "It doesn't appear that this will be a good fit."

I shake hands and leave.

I interviewed a few years ago for an internship. The guy doing it was a complete dick. For every question he would cut me off and restate the question, no matter what I was saying. Think of the "who are you" scene from anger management. Then at the end of a question, after nodding his head and writing down notes about my answer, he said "that wasn't a good answer, you should try harder next time."

So at the end of the interview he hypothetically asked if, after college, I would be willing to work "anywhere in the world" if offered a full-time position. I was sick of him by now and knew I wasn't getting the job so I asked "can you define 'anywhere in the world' for me? Give me a few examples." He said Russia, Saudi Arabia, maybe Syria. This was around the time the US had started an airstrike campaign on Syria so I said "No, I wouldn't work somewhere like Syria. Would you work anywhere in the world? Where wouldn't you work?" He stuttered through an answer and I told him thank you for the interview and walked out.

One of my good friends interviewed with the FBI out of college. Incredibly smart guy.

They started off by asking him a series of basic questions in yes-or-no format regarding how he perceived himself and some of his specific thoughts(do you think you are honest, happy, caring, thoughtful, funny, smart, angry, violent, etc; do you ever think about doing this or that?). Then they asked him about specific drugs and whether he had used them. Same with alcohol and tobacco. It was a relatively quick process. Then they stood up and told him he was almost done but there was one last thing. They walked him to another room and hooked his arse up to a polygraph machine. Then they asked him the same exact questions again.

He said he was like "well frick it" and didn't even try to hide anything. Said he came across like a psycho. Never got called back.

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I call bullshite on this entire story b/c I interviewed with the FBI for a Special Agent position and outside of a written examination the interview process was pretty much standard where you sit across from three Special Agents and they ask targeted behavioral questions.

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That's cool. I don't know what position he interviewed for but he also mentioned a written portion. I do know that he went to DC and interviewed with them. I'm not going to assume that each position gets the same type of interview, or that everyone gets the same interview experience. I've heard that others have had to take polygraphs when interviewing with the FBI or intelligence agencies during the screening process.