re: What's the strangest job interview you've ever had?

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yeah I purposely omitted those from my recipe

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A couple extra cloves of garlic and they would have made you an offer

I mean shite, I interviewed for a position with a company a couple years back and the person interviewing me basically straight up said they weren't going to hire me 10 minutes into what turned out to be an hour long interview lmao.

I applied to the job, and the posting was pretty light on details. I got the interview offer and began some more research on the position and realized that the position I would be filling was for someone with over 20 years experience. I had 1 year experience but figured if they were gonna bring me in then maybe I had a shot.

Quickly realized they were looking for someone who could pick up where that VERY seasoned person left off and hit the ground running from day 1 with little supervision. So yea, the president was interviewing me (very small company personnel wise) and he basically opened the interview with "You don't really have what we're looking for" but it was all friendly and cordial. It was good practice.


He knew he didn't want to hire me, but he wasn't a dick about it.

This baw in my OP seemingly knew he didn't want to hire me before I even spoke and he took 30 minutes out of his day to be a dickhead about it.

I went to LSU not knowing anything about Baton Rouge and little about Louisiana restaurants. I went to Walk-Ons and applied to be a server. They looked at me like I was a complete idiot, but took my application and asked me a few questions despite a bewildered look on their face.

I found out immediately afterward that a dude applying to be a server at Walk-Ons is in fact a complete idiot.

Stryker. They looked at my resume and saw that I graduated from LSU. They wanted to know what position I played on the football team, and they weren’t joking.

Senior in college. Interview with several people. Last question...old man asked "what are your plans for starting a family?"

I looked at him, probably white as a sheet, for several seconds, and said "to be honest with you, I've never thought about that."

Apparently they couldn't handle the truth.

I interviewed for a sales job straight out of college. The morning of the interview I started feeling terrible. The interview was late in the afternoon and my symptoms got worse and worse. I REALLY needed the job so I didn't call and cancel. While the manager was talking to me I was sliding down in my chair like a wobbly jello mold. He asked if I was feeling well and I was up front with him and told him that I thought I might have the flu. He stopped the interview and said "look the job has already been filled but anyone who is this hungry is going to work for me." " But don't come in until you're healthy." To this day he was one of my best bosses.

Interviewed for a family office job for a principal of a large hedge fund. Had to do a two hour interview with a psychologist to determine if I had the right psychological profile to even move forward with the actual interview. Had to sign a bunch of non-disclosure agreements about the specifics of the interview.

I interviewed with a construction company about 7 years after i graduated. They asked for my transcripts from LSU. I didn’t think anything of it, figuring they wanted to verify I had my degree and all. Fast forward to the second interview the guy starting asking me why i made such and such grade my freshman year.

I had almost 8 years of professional experience and had completed hundreds of millions of dollars of work and this dude is grilling me on why i made a C in calc 1552 over a decade ago.

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Didn’t feel comfortable about the hole situation, so I left.

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ISWYDT

I had a place ask me to calculate 25 x 25 in my head. Turned out to be a pretty OK job in the end, but definitely pretty thick with wackjobs.