The only thing more humiliating than being out of work is the soul-sucker that is the interview process, and thanks to fewer jobs and larger (read: MASSIVE) pools of candidates, employers are asking potential workers to jump through more hoops than ever.Enter Glassdoor.com, a Web site that seeks to demystify the process by listing median salaries, insider company information, and perhaps most entertainingly, anonymous reports on exactly what goes down during various interview processes.
Gems from the latter include managers who asked hopefuls "creative" questions such as "When is it OK to lie?", "What would you do with 100 Christmas trees in July?" and the ultimately thought-provoking "If you were a cereal, what kind would you be?" (Lucky Charms?)
Our own personal favorite phone interview included the oh-so-original, "What are you wearing?" And no, it wasn't for that kind of job. What's the worst question you've ever been asked during a job interview?
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Tuesday 28 April
By Nanc
"Your husband works at XXXX, right?"
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Tuesday 28 April
By goosehead0531
I hate job interview questions. I know it's so cliche, but "Where do you see yourself in 5 years" is the absolute worst.
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Tuesday 28 April
By coco
i think a good way to get the job is to answer "Trix" and then wink really hard.
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Wednesday 29 April
By Brooke
If someone threw a rubber band at you from another cubicle how would you react?
I mean...huh? I did not even know what to say.
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Saturday 16 May
By drbj
The worst interviewing questions, without a doubt, are those that you believe to be the "illegal" questions that should not be asked since they could be seen as discriminatory. One response that has worked for me is to answer, in a pleasant tone, "Why do you ask?" Interviewers generally back off when they believe you know there are certain questions you need not answer. For more info about illegal questions and how interviewers rephrase them, visit: http://tinyurl.com/pgrL8f
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Thursday 21 January
By uggs
sadffdas
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