re: What is the worst/ best interview you've had and why?

I was shilling for the firm I was a lawyer at for oil and gas business trying to get a new client. All was going well and we were going to get the account until the final interview when one of the VP's just happened to be a guy I got fired at a previous client. He was grossly incompetent, but at this place he was married to the President's daughter. We did not get the account......worked out well though, the company filed for BK 9 mos later

Extremely awkward

Had an interview for an "account manager" position right out of college at some place in Nashville. They end up taking me out to a po-dunk neighborhood doing door to door sales. I stopped the girl after the second house and told her this wasn't the job for me. She told me I was making a mistake because I didn't understand their business.

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I was once given 15 different topics and told that I had to come up with a 5 minute impromptu speech/presentation on one of the items. The interviewer left the room for 15 minutes while I put together my speech.

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I certainly don't want to say that sounds easy, but I think I could do that well. I'd assume it was 15 topics in that field, so I'm sure I could hone in on one I know inside and out. Given 15 minutes, I could come up with a few main bullet points and talking points for each, assuming you got to use an index card or whatever? Either way, I think I could do that one.


I just had an interview yesterday, and right when I sat down 1 person from the 3 person panel says, "Ok, sing us a song, and you have to be in key." Now, in general, that's a great icebreaker to start an interview. But she kinda kept it going after all the chuckles, almost to the point where I almost thought she wanted me to actually start singing so THEN she could say, "Haha, i'm just joking."

It was odd.

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Every time I feel I fricked up on an interview, I get asked for a second interview while when I feel I killed it, I never get a call back.

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My exact experience since my first interviews coming out of college, through 3 weeks ago.

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fareplay

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I'm sure I missed your update, but what ever happened to that meeting with your boss you posted that you were going into about not getting that promotion?

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Had an interview for an "account manager" position right out of college at some place in Nashville. They end up taking me out to a po-dunk neighborhood doing door to door sales. I stopped the girl after the second house and told her this wasn't the job for me. She told me I was making a mistake because I didn't understand their business.

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I had a similar experience.

My 1st semester in grad school for my MBA at UCF, you learn that you need to do an internship and have a certain amount of hours in that role to graduate. Luckily, there's basically a book that shows the available positions, and you work with your counselor on finding one. There's no interview or anything, the counselor just puts in the call and you get the internship(probably shoulda been a red flag lol)

Since I had previously worked summers/seasonal at Disney World, I chose this one internship with them, also assuming they should have a lot of opportunities when I graduate as such a big company. I wish I could remember the job title but I can't, very fancy of course.

My first day they ask me to show up at a hotel for training. I thought that was very odd since it wasn't a Disney hotel. Turns out, 1 of the jobs on the grad school list as an internship for a freaking MBA is to be one of those people who work in booths at hotels/restaurants in Orlando and beg you to buy their discounted Disney tickets.

The instant they told me what the job was, I told them I wasn't doing it, and I bailed.

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Would have said no thanks

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Well, like I said, as an icebreaker, it's fine. You gotta come back with something funny, so I said something along the lines of, "I can probably sing a tune but I can promise it won't be in tune." haha haha haha, let's all make the fake laughts.


At that point, we should have moved on, but she asked like 2 more time about singing the song, and I'm just like, seriously?

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best: just talked about LSU Baseball for 30 minutes

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Had something similar just out of college where we both talked about shite we liked and had in common for 75% of the interview, mostly his doing as I let him lead of course as the interviewer.

The funny part in that one though, it was a job for a company who dealt in foreign exchange, and on the wall in the lobby they had a frame on the wall that basically had a Euro in the middle with all of the currency(bills, maybe coins, I don't remember) from each country that uses the euro.

So when I leave the interview, I went to the restroom, and on my way out, I see the guy bringing in the next interview, one of the most absurdly hot chicks I'd ever seen, showing a totally inappropriate amount of cleavage from her huge boobs in a tight, low cut shirt. As they walk by that frame, he mentions the Euro, and she says she has no idea what it is, and he starts explaining it to her.

I didn't get the job, and I can't help but think that chick who didn't know shite about Forex got that job over me.