Any stories from awful interview performances that you either witnessed or participated in?

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1) In a case of reversed roles a colleague of mine interviewed with another firm. The hiring manager closed the door and with tears in his eyes spent 20 minutes telling the candidate why he didn‘t want to work there. No offer was extended or requested.

2) Some year’s ago I interviewed a new graduate for an entry level role in my office. While I stood at the whiteboard drawing intricate colorful diagrams, charts and equations describing the wonderful leading edge work we did, I became aware of a loud snoring noise behind me. Turning around, I found the candidate blissfully sacked out in the office comfy chair - a bit too comfy as it turned out. He did not got an offer from my group, but I heard later that another team did hire him.

Challenge questions for the FB network: what would you do if a candidate started sawing wood during a 1 on 1 interview with you? There are many interesting options ......

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Q: Can you walk me from revenue to net income?
A: Sorry, I don’t have a background in finance and I didn’t study for this

They got an offer...

Are you kidding me? I've been getting questions on like section 341 asset sales and other obscure things....

I was interviewing a candidate with a colleague (a wrongly over confident 1st yr associate). I started giving softball questions because of how embarrassed I was over my colleague. He no longer works here

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