Posted on 07/21/2025 4:23:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man was pushed to his limits in a job interview and scolded the man he was interviewing
A man revealed on Reddit that he told a job candidate he needed to "shut up and listen" after an exhausting interview.
In the post, the man explained that he and his colleague were "interviewing this guy for a very good software engineering position." The candidate passed the first round, and everyone agreed that he had a great "resume and experience."
"On paper, he had everything we were looking for, and honestly, this looked like a life-changing opportunity for him," the poster explains.
However, when the man showed up for the second interview, he was "very serious and not smiling at all."
After a round of introductions, the man immediately asked if he could tell them a bit about himself.
“He started talking and talking about his personal and professional background. After about three minutes, I jumped in to ask a follow-up question based on something he mentioned. He replied, 'I will answer, just give me a moment,' and continued talking,” the man recalls.
“A coworker jumped in with another question, and he said the same thing to her. But after more than five minutes, I jumped in again with another question. I had to talk over him to do it," the poster adds. "He finally paused and answered, but in such a long-winded way that he ended up veering into another topic."
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Hire their parents?
No, I didn’t. I was polite about it, because of my friend.
They were just trying to get free work out of you. Apparently that's a thing now. It's seriously unethical.
God bless you for that.
I’ve heard that happening to other people, but that was my only time like that. She didn’t need that. She had someone I had worked with on their team.
Cause if they treated you like that for an interview, it was a good indicator how the job would go working under them.
I told mr mm about this thread and he said it’s not uncommon and abusive.
I think it’s disgusting to treat people like that.
At times it became obvious that they just wanted an overnighter in San Diego. One even asked how late the zoo and Sea World were open and said that his family was waiting in the lobby.
End of interview. I don't know what HR did but as far as I was concerned, they could walk home.
I feel a lot more stupid after struggling to read that article.
My wife sometimes has to say that to me. Sorry, it’s the engineer in me.
Drugs.
Both witty and pithy.
Congratulations.
The worst one I ever had was one where they brought in a consultant to psychoanalyze me.
I was looking for a job after getting let go from a long career job in a reorganization. This dork proceeded to ask me about my emotions at getting laid off.
I told him I wasn’t happy so I went home and reroofed my garage (planned repair job) then I went camping. I stayed an extra couple days because I could.
Of course there was no way I would ever work for these people
You are better than me.
"Meredith, please scroll Reddit for your next news article."
The state of journalism today.
The wise man speaks because he has something to say; the fool because he has to say something. Knowing when to speak is the beginning of wisdom.
I’ve been in a few candidate interviews with fellow managers and since there was no moderator on our side, a couple of candidates were allowed to take control of the interview. One that we hired, in spite of his incessant self-promotion, turned out to be the worst dud you could imagine. Not that he wasn’t smart, he just never produced.
No. Coding. Until AI takes his coding job.
I think that’s called “Baffling them with bullshit”.
A company I worked for made the mistake of hiring someone like that. He could talk for hours about many pieces of equipment, none of which we had. When there was a problem he would explain how he would deal with it on other equipment, but could never manage to fix anything we used.
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