re: Unusual Things You Heard People Say During A Job Interview?

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Best answer I've ever got in a interview. I asked why should we hire you and the kid said cause my mom said so.

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As much as I’ve tried to avoid it, one day I’m pretty certain I’m going to end up managing others.

People like this are my greatest fear because I think I might legitimately snap if someone mentions their helicopter parents in an interview, or worse, actually brings their parents with them.

I interviewed a guy that listed the Federal Corrections Dept. in Joplin, Missouri, as a former employer. Former civil service employees often have issues, so I asked him what he did there. He replied that he was incarcerated for eight years for bank robbery. But he was paroled and all that was behind him now... Oh yeah.

As if I needed a reason to turn him down, one weekend shortly before that a female employee robbed a convenience store. With a butcher knife. She was nabbed by the SO less that six miles down the same road on which the store was located.

Her parents dropped by the office about two weeks later to return some company property. They told me that their daughter had been incarcerated in Florida two years before she got the job with us. I guess she was homesick. Anyway, I called our HR Dept. with this tidbit and they didn't want to talk about it. No shite...

To tex who interviewed at Sanyo.

Once I interviewed for a combo systems programmer and trainer and tech writer job. I had at least the minimal requirements for each task.
After technical interview they send me to their hr dept to a phd psychologist.
He challenged my statement on resume about my double major. Claimed his daughter went there too and you can't take double major in my topics.
We went around a bit and I let it go.
It was a pretext to see how I could handle Dumbassery from authority.
Sanyo scene might be similar.
It was, whether they intended it.
I was hired. Great job. Got to design their first online real time front end to 15 company (under one corp umbrella) database.
On time and under budget.
Had to teach my coders the technology too.
Anyway, if I had lost it in the hr office, I would have missed out on a great assignment.

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"Can the company see what I do on my phone if it's hooked to the internal wifi, I've heard they can" ?

I was asked this by a recent college graduate (female).

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Should have told her the only job she'd be good at is on her knees, and I don't mean joining the nunnery.

Did you smell that?

an HR person at my work told me one a couple of years ago someone came for an interview literally wearing a tinfoil hat

they didnt get the job

I interviewed maybe 200 people during my career and thought I had heard everything, and then I read these.




Once I moved through the hiring process for a Director of QA position with a new company. Did great and was offered the job in writing by the operations VP. I accepted and turned in my resignation with the old company. They asked me to stay and work my 3 weeks and I said yes, figuring they would let me go in a few days.

That night I get a call from the VP who was in his words "very embarrassed". Then he said, "They have told me you must be interviewed and accepted by the company shrink in Chicago before I can hire you."

I told him that based on the written job offer, I had resigned that day. The next day I flew to Chicago and went to the shrink's office. When I went in to see him, he asked how was I doing and so I told him my story. He listened patiently, laughed and said, "Then we need to do really well on this interview." We talked an hour and I took a personality evaluation questionnaire. He asked me to wait in the office and about 20 very difficult minutes later asked me back in, "For a chat."

He told me company protocol would be to wait a few days before sending any response, but since I was jobless I needed to know he had passed me with no concerns. I thanked him and found a pay phone in the lobby (no cell phones back then) and called my wife to tell her we would be able to pay our bills that month after all. Then I went to the airport and caught my flight back home.



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I had a chemist one time ask me if there was a tennis court anywhere close, because he really liked to play tennis.


Had another chemist ask if we had any pull to help him get a golf club membership.


Sorry - one more - Had a chemist show up for his interview in his BMW. My boss - The Owner of the company said I could not hire the kid because he would not hire anyone who drove a better car than he did.

I interviewed a fellow for a well paying position and he fell asleep two minutes after starting the interview. He was talking when he fell asleep.