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I was an Elementary Ed major in college working in another field when my cousin called and said there was a mid-year, long-term sub opening in her elementary school and I should apply. I did and it was the weirdest interview ever.
They were asking me all sorts of questions, like how to handle a student who is angry, what would you do if a student threw an object at you, would you be emotionally comfortable with a physical altercation with a student, can you separate work and home life?
I left feeling like I had been on Punk'd or something.
2 days later they called and offered me the job.
I got to my first day of work and found my room had just 7 student desks, but 2 teacher desks, and I was even more confused.
I had no idea what Special Education was, no idea what Emotional / Behavioral Disorders were, or that schools existed for kids whose behaviors are so extreme it is not safe to have them in mainstream schools.
I loved working with those kids so much I went back to school and got my Master's Degree in it. I continued in that field for almost 20 years after that.
Citi, in Capital Planning, video interview. Interviewer admitted to having a medical procedure earlier that day and was still being affected by the anesthesia.
He kept losing his place and repeating himself.
My interview ended early when another Citi employee managed to get into the video call and kicked me out.
I wrote a very detailed thank you note and still made it to the final round (but didn't get an offer). I think I dodged a bullet though!
BNY Mellon, in risk and regulatory program management.
After a couple of great rounds of interviews, they wanted to press forward. I had already disclosed that I had a trip coming up - hiring manager encouraged me to cancel it so they could wrap up the interview process quickly. I was unemployed at this point, so I canceled the trip....and then BNY Mellon ghosted me.
Wild.
Lesson I have also learned the hard way: never cancel ANYTHING for interviews. If they truly want you, they understand you have other things on your schedule. If they suggest/demand you cancel to be available to them, they will also expect you to cancel things in your normal life to prioritize them over everything: your kids, your family, your health, EVERYTHING. And that's not a job I want anymore. I have moved way passed giving my whole life to a job. Now I view my job as a way to afford my life; I want a job I enjoy that pays me what I'm worth, but also recognizes that what makes me worth it is that I am not a robot to your cause. A healthy rounded life makes for smarter, more efficient and effective employees who are happy to work with you!
final round interview with Bridgewater Associates, got grilled by a senior manager who essentially said i was just desperate for the job because i was recently laid off from consulting market conditions. (23 years old, laid off from my first corporate job - i wouldnt say im not desperate! but like, hot take as i dont live close to CT and would be uprooting my life a second time within a year). this was after meeting with 3 other ppl in previous interviews and passing case studies
yes lol. have heard various feedback, very unique and confrontational (radical transparency, calling ppl out) firm culture from what i understand
Was interviewing at a hedge fund in TX. I got along with everyone, and every conversation I had went super well. I had a great time talking to everyone and crushed the tests they gave me. Eventually they told me they were passing because they wanted to hire someone from PE….after I had burned a personal day and killed all their interviews. I was pissed.
I did few rounds at a German IB in LN. Killed all technicals and they said - no because the would like to hire someone junior - according to job spec I was meeting the criteria
I interviewed for an asset management operations role early on In my career. I’m talking about like first job out of college. Interview went really well and one of the male interviewers (head of ops) came back in wearing earrings. I guess he was gay. I smiled and lightly laughed just to be polite and keep an upbeat vibe and said “oh are those earrings from Mexico?” because they were green red and white. He looked SO off put by that comment and said it was for Christmas (fml) since it was December.
His tone changed quite a bit and he just told me to wait for next steps. I sent a standard follow up email and just got rejected. Fk him
Recruiter for an external recruiting company. Interviewer was young, which okay, nothing against that, but it was a zoom call and I never saw any more of her face than from her nose to her eyebrows, with those enormous fake lashes that are trending right now? Absolutely covered in mascara.
Picture it: giant nose (so close I could see a pimple forming), giant flapping dry-caked mascara wings, and eyebrows that were almost entirely drawn on. I could barely concentrate. I wanted to say 'could you maybe pull the camera back so I can see your whole face?' but I couldn't figure out a way to word it politely. It was all so distracting!
And then came the question "Tell me about your spirit animal." Huh? Well, yours is a crusty moth, right? "If you were trapped on a train and unable to get to work on time, what would you do?" Other than call to let people know, if I can? I mean, do you want me to MacGyver a solution to public transit? Almost no question had much to do with actually doing a job, and I felt like I was doing one of those weird personality tests that don't make much sense.
And it was clear she hadn't actually read my resume at all, since she asked about my military experience and would I still be required to do weekend training. Honey, I'm over 50, have never been in the military, and there's not one single thing on my rez that suggests I ever was.
It was the longest 30 minutes of my life, and I swore that the woman who set me up with the interview must have been pranking me. I was neither surprised nor truly upset when I didn't hear back from the company. Pretty sure those flapping wing eyes could at least tell I was not terribly excited about the thought of any placement that recruiter might have been able to provide.
I survived several rounds of interviews with Canonical for software engineering. Oh holy hell. They want you to dig up everything from high school and it’s basically a giant personality test. In the end I didn’t take it.