http://www.jobster.com/at/question/show/585/self?hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_answers_to_self_question_585 http://www.jobster.com/at/assets/images/jobster/logos/rss_logo.gif http://www.jobster.com/at/question/show/585/self?hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_answers_to_self_question_585 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:41:16 GMT Most recent answers to the question 'What was your most bizarre interview experience like...?' http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/168978?answer_class=AnswerBase I had one of those interviews that is advertised like an interview but when you get there it's actually a pyramid scheme looking for motivated, unhappy young professionals to sell supplements. I had already been down that road so I walked out but they were very upset that I didn't just sit there like the rest of the docile group. Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:41:16 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/168978?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/154266?answer_class=AnswerBase I went to an interview at a poultry processing plant once (see: slaughterhouse) expecting to be asked questions and maybe fill out some paperwork. Instead I walked in and they tossed me a large orange apron. Inside I walked down the assembly line and was shown the way they plucked,gutted and processed the birds. I'm not sure what that had to do with my title of "Cleaner" at the time, but later I found out they were just trying to see if I could handle the blood and guts. Needless to say, I showed up the next day and every day after that. I was a cleanin' machine! Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:58:42 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/154266?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/166879?answer_class=AnswerBase When I was asked to work, and help take care of a data entry departmant. The Manager would not take no for a answer. He believed that I could do any job he put in front of me. Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:59:44 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/166879?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/164948?answer_class=AnswerBase I was once asked to assemble, in an interview, something from a table of plastic Lego pieces..............Very bizzare. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:54:50 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/164948?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/154914?answer_class=AnswerBase I spent two and half hours being interviewed by ten different people. It was grueling. At the end of it, their final question was, "Tell us a joke." Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:47:56 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/154914?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/169229?answer_class=AnswerBase I once met with a job recruiter who had me handwrite a brief paragraph on my career interests. He then analyzed my handwriting to determine my personality traits and then compared these traits against my interests. I'm pleased to say that my personality, as determined by by handwriting, was a match for my career interests. Interestly enough, that recruiter never placed me in a position. We should have seen if his personality matched him with being a recruiter. Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:14:04 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/169229?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/149756?answer_class=AnswerBase I fell asleep. (Don't worry - the interviewer informed me truthfully that half of the people did - it was not a normal interview). Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:10:10 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/149756?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/158142?answer_class=AnswerBase That was the interview for my Product Manager Job at TOPOS Entertainment Software Publisher. I slopped my coffee right over the employment contract. Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:48:42 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/158142?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/150690?answer_class=AnswerBase My most bizarre interview experience is, without a doubt, a trip I took to downtown Miami, from Pompano Beach, Florida, on the regional train system. The ride was a first for me. I switched to the Metro to get to downtown Miami and walked, in the Florida summer heat, to the highrise office building where this interview was meant to take place, before 11 am. It was sunny and hot! The thing was, the trip was what I thought would be the most wasteful part of day (though I read a newspaper on the way there). However, the worst was yet to come. I arrived at the office, waited around 40 minutes until the president of this apparently leading-edge information company (newsletter and web site info for a specific financial/security field) made his way out to greet me. One problem: his assistant, who was out the day I showed up, the one who set the interview and confirmed it with an email to me, neglected to clue in anyone ELSE about my interview. No one, not the prez, not the woman at the reception desk, NO ONE knew I was meant to be there. In short, I spent an entire business day -- round-trip -- traveling and waiting, only to be told no one understood that I was to be interviewed, and the president did a rather shocking-bad job of trying to care that I was there. (Reset the appointment? Naah - just muddle through half-interested.) His assistant was the impromptu HR coordinator for this growing company. So much for doing that duty effectively. It was an amazing waste of a day. But, I got to ride the train! I had not ridden on a train, even a subway or monorail, in a long time. So all was not lost, but I resolved myself to double-check an appointment BEFORE leaving for it, from now on. I mean, with someone like an HR manager or the actual interviewee if I can manage that. Of course, I'd do it considerately, unlike how the prez of that Miami company handled my effort to interview with him. Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:36:32 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/150690?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/149008?answer_class=AnswerBase We were on Demon Drop at Cedar Point and the interview didn't start till we got strapped in... actually, nothing bizarre Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:44:51 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/149008?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/164587?answer_class=AnswerBase I applied to a job in Barcelona through a friend. Her boss interviewved me and I didn't have to say anything during the whole interview because she though that I would be a great person because my friend recommended me. Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:58:49 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/164587?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/156462?answer_class=AnswerBase I interviewed for a research position with a trial exhibits firm in Old Town, VA. The 'attorney' that interviewed me kept putting me down because I was not an attorney, yet I had much more research experience then he did. Did I mention that he was also hungover and had trouble speaking? At the end of being told about 100 times that he did not hire non-attorneys, I said goodbye but not before he said I had to pass the company dog test. Apparently on your way out the company pet has a say in their hiring decisions. Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:27:28 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/156462?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/163885?answer_class=AnswerBase It's a tossup between two. One: the interviewer who spent nearly the whole hour talking, telling me all about the company in depth, and hardly asked me any questions or gave me opportunity to ask any (after all that, I didn't get the job). Two: the interviewer who didn't believe it when I answered "No" to "Do you take/have you taken/are you considering taking drugs?" He made it clear that he expected everyone to have at least experimented at some time and was plainly disappointed that I hadn't! Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:49:48 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/163885?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/178447?answer_class=AnswerBase The interview ended like this: "Oh yeah, we'll give you a green card.... or something like it." Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:12:44 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/178447?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/158931?answer_class=AnswerBase Thankfully, I've never had one! Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:55:20 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/158931?answer_class=AnswerBase