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Some interviewers are trying to understand how you will respond when asked a frustrating question because you will need to be very patient with clients asking absurd questions or the exact thing you just explained because they weren’t listening. It’s a test that you likely did not pass.
Well I never saw it backfire, but I understood the logic. He wasnt like that day to day, just interviews. We were in PE Ops — he didn’t want to hire someone without a backbone and figured the best way to test it was throw something really wrong out there to see if they’d let it slide or not. It had to be blatantly wrong, not some debated topic.
If you got it right he’d say something like, “you’re right, great response. Thats what we’re looking for here. We need people who arent afraid to push back, even when you’re in a situation that makes you feel weird about doing so.” Cant say i agree with it, but no one on our team was soft and a lot of people that i thought were didnt get offers with us.
Honestly he was the best boss I’ve ever had and think there are some situations where I’d do the same thing in an interview. I never have, but its a simple way to see what kind of person someone is
Yep. The interviewer probably didn’t read anything before walking in and potentially wasn’t even paying attention to you…
DOESN’T MATTER… The fact is, this stuff happens all the time. So if you can’t handle a dummy co-worker/customer/vendor when you’re on your best behavior, imagine how you’ll handle it after you’re hired. That was a missed opportunity to show your patience and composure…
This isn't that
Ahahahah that interviewer was an idiot. You should email his boss or higher - the interviewer was probably complaining about his interviewees all day, when he’s the one costing everyone time and money and making his company look bad
Better yet, cold call them, just for the love of the game. To my mind, if you do it right, and in a value-adding way, you could maybe sell the higher-up on the idea they need a chief of staff to get visibility into their org. Then you have some funnnn
Sounds like they already knew who they were going to hire and had to find reasons to exclude you.
Kudos to you. I bet you gained the respect of the others in the room. Hopefully the non-listener isnt the decision maker :)