Interviews From Heck (was: Re: Recruiters)

[Glen Warner <gdwarner -at- ricochet -dot- net>]

Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> wrote:

(*snip*)

> The worst I've had was an interview from hell.

I had a weird interview once ....

Tech writing position ... BIG company, two interviewers (I *think* 
they were writers).

Questions were over, and I was given a task to perform: I believe I 
was supposed to assemble a document from some materials they gave me 
(its been a while).  I was instructed to ask questions if I got stuck.

I got to work, and the two interviewers began chatting amongst 
themselves.  Presently, I had a question.  Had difficulty breaking 
into their conversation, but managed.  They answered my question, and 
back to work I went, and back to their conversation they went.

Eventually, bits and pieces of their conversation caught my ear:  a 
story about a graduation party one of them had attended -- at a morgue 
--!  Pizza was served.  No tables available, so they ended up eating 
the pizza over the open chest of the cadavers.

After hearing that story, I was so unnerved I didn't ask any more 
questions.

Didn't get the job.  The recruiter (ha!  This does tie in to the 
original subject!) said I didn't get the job because I "wasn't 
aggressive enough."

Ah, well.  I guess mom screwed up teaching me to be polite and all ...!

--gdw

P.S.:

Hope nobody's eating pizza right now ..... :o)

--gdw

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