Related Posts
Hi fishes,
Why TCS is so rude and self proclaimed kinda. I declined TCS offer last year as they were giving very less CTC. Now I got interviewed again with TCS and cleared all the rounds but they are not reactivating my ibegin portal for document upload since I rejected them last year...in this way u think they will never ever reactivate my profile.
Tata Consultancy
More Posts
Bowl Leader
Rising Star
Rising Star
Additional Posts in PR and Communications
New to Fishbowl?
Download the Fishbowl app to
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
A hiring manager once asked what some of my least favorite aspects of communications were and then proceeded to berate me for not having a passion for communications lol.
I cut the interview short. Told the HM I wasn't feeling it and wished them luck. One of the best decisions I ever made in my 20s.
Not sure that this is unhinged but I once got asked if I was close with my grandfather without anything prompting it, as far as I can remember.
That is a very... random question to ask in an interview...
"If you could be any animal, what would it be and why?" This happened about 5 years ago. I know some interviewers do goofy stuff like this claiming it tests your ability to think on your feet and deal with the unexpected, but it always seems like such a waste of time to me. Do you really need me to justify why being a peregrine falcon would be awesome to know whether or not I'm a good fit?
OMG. This was going to be my answer. And then he berated my answer. He wanted something fierce and aggressive and didn’t like it when I said “my dog because he’s brave and loyal and knows that he is loved unconditionally.”
Many MANY years ago I interviewed at a magazine publishing house for an associate editor job. Very professional environment but about 15 minutes in the hiring manager asked me if I had an issue with “questionable content.”
When I asked why, he put a bunch of hardcore porn magazines on his desk and explained that the actual job was writing the captions.
That’s wild
Not an interview question, but a question from a candidate: “if you were a candy bar, what kind of candy bar would you be?”
KitKat. Next question.
As an account person I was asked how I would “sweeten the deal” to get a project… I ended the interview
Thats... something
If I was really dedicated to my work because I have kids.
Asking about kids and your family in an interview is quite the red flag. Did you get/take the job?
Coming in late here but I had an agency once ask what I like to do outside of work (normal). After answering pretty generically (travel, barre workout classes, trying new restaurants, reading), they asked if I was okay not doing those things because the hours were long and they expected their employees to be available after hours.
I dropped out of the interview process after that
I recently interviewed with an executive who asked me why I had on my LinkedIn that I was searching for a job. I looked at my LI profile and in my About section, it says that I am looking for my next challenge. He grilled me on why I would do that because my current employer could see it.
Why do they let people with severe mental health disorders conduct interviews and make hiring decisions?
I graduated from college in December 2009 and started my first PR job in June 2010. I once had someone ask me to explain why there was a gap in my resume, which I found kind of unhinged. (The answer is that I worked as an administrative assistant for six months while I figured out what the heck I wanted to do with my life, and I didn’t want to take up valuable space on my resume with that.)
Ha, exactly. Jobs for the field I studied in college dried up during the recession, so I had to figure out how to use my skills to actually get a job while paying my rent in the meantime 😀
Do you have a good relationship with your family?
Maybe not unhinged, but whose business is that?
No, that’s pretty unhinged!