Hiring Managers, What's The Most Cringe Thing A Job Applicant Has Done?

hiring managers over debt what's the most strange or cringe-worthy thing a potential candidate has said or done during the interview he had fighting skills listed we moved boxes dude was bigger than gregor clegane and offered his services anytime even if we didn't hire him I would keep that guy on retainer when you need a guy who wants to fight people you probably aren't going to have the time to find one we had a girl come in for an interview who brought her boyfriend he didn't wait in the car he actually wanted to sit in on the interview with her when I explained that it wasn't protocol and he'd have to at least wait in the break room he actually got angry at me she wasn't a bad candidate but I didn't want to risk anything to do with her boyfriend bleeding into our office that was actually a pimp me tell me about your strengths and areas for improvement her pretty good me and your areas for improvement her not really I know a girl who answers questions like this I kind of want to run her over sometimes not during the interview but I had a candidate send me a thank-you note from an email address that started ISA skanking 420 this was for a finance position this is brilliant I just imagine the blood leaving his face as he realized he wasn't logged on the right account or he was just clueless she vomited on the desk then tried to continue the interview like nothing had happened I'm not the hiring manager wasn't even there when it happened my first management job in IT it was around 2001 also hiring a general Windows Solaris sysadmin one guy comes in with her hu Yu Yu GE backpack do the interview he is clearly on the spectrum but I like him okay pretty smart functional as he's leaving I casually ask what's in your bag he then explained that it's mostly O'Reilly books that he brings to all his interviews so he can prove people wrong if he needs to honestly guy sounds like a perfect-sized admin after a pretty terrible interview for a level 1 helpdesk roll me is there anything you want to ask us or anything else you wish to say them well I know the director he said he'd look after me leans back and folds arms he didn't get the job and we advised the director of his comments the guy showed up to his interview wearing pigtails chunky Club kid shoes a kilt striped tights and a shirt that said Frick on it in big block letters I passed him on to my boss to interview son I got an interview for you freak off dad a girl stopped me made question she even put her hand up to ask my starsin then the star scene of my significant other then she asked me to describe our relationship guy admitted to criminal record of methamphetamine possession on application showed up tweaking so hard he couldn't sit still needless to say it was a very short interview when asked about experience with source control software the guy we interviewed said I've actually written a song about it and before we could stop him he started singing it faster candidate about previous job experience working for a company that made and sold prosthetic limbs oh I was so passionate about it I just loved it so much that I wanted to run out in the street and cut people's arms and legs off just so they could experience our product Seraph industries employee most likely I introduced myself to the candidate hello I am John Smith she responded no you're not you're Tom Brown I spent the next few minutes trying to convince her I was John Smith I finally took my driver's license out and proved who I was did not hire not a hiring manager but at a place I worked at they were passing around an application of a guy who had to state that he had been convicted of a felony he explained that a drunk driver killed his son so he murdered the guy was out on parole I felt bad when asked about strengths and weaknesses the candidate replied I crave KFC and often get myself a bargain bucket I just didn't know what to say next let alone whether they considered it a strength or a weakness a candidate where I works when talking about how he performs in a team told a story of a guy they called dirty Johnny because he was Mexican the most common reason I vote no for a candidate as that tell me a story where you worked on a team question so many people despite knowing full well they're at an interview proceed to either throw their co-workers boss under the bar sought to be blatantly gender bathes in an phobic before I had even asked the guy to sit down he said yes this seems like a nice place to work when do I start I like confidence in a potential employee but there's no need to be cocky me can you tell me about the gap in 2010 to 2012 then I took time out to work on myself me okay so can you tell me why you left you last position then I was asked to leave and I have to disclose this I embezzled from them me so did you work on yourself in prison between 2010 to 2012 them I don't think that's important now I Google people every single time before I interview them he said he was going out back to smoke a bowl after we were done and asked if I'd like to join him I personally don't smoke and have no problem with people who do but until it's legalized in our state keep that crap to yourself during job interviews even if it is legalized it still lacks professionalism in a similar way to inviting your interviewer to have a beer with you I only witnessed this because I'm not a hiring manager but this dude tried to take his mom in an interview with him obviously the guy said I would like to interview the applicant one on one please and this B threw a fit and stormed out with her son helicopter parents are the worst explaining why he left his last job because I had to get up at the butt crack of dawn I agree with him totally valid reason probably could have worded it better I thought it was hilarious personally didn't get hired because there were other people more qualified I can see that as a potential reason for leaving but maybe not worded like that my interview at least five potential caregivers a week to work with seniors that have dementia we don't ask the typical job interview questions we ask them a series of common scenarios they will encounter and see how they react respond one of the questions is what would you do if you walk into a client's room and they start screaming at you to get out the correct answer is some variation of leave for a few minutes and come back with a big smile on your face and usually they will be happy to see you one caregiver says she would bear hug the client into submission B she doesn't tolerate any disrespect when I tried telling her that's the opposite of what you should do she replied no I would stick with the bear hug up I would drop a people's elbow on that jabroni until she smelled what the rock was cooking I was on an interview committee for an IT position and I had shaggy long hair at the time this kid comes in has a pretty terrible interview but he's confident the whole time when we asked him if he had any questions or comments he looked at me and said I came in and saw your hair and I can't believe they actually hire people like you he was probably nervous and I think his intention was to say that he's glad we don't just hire the typical professional looking type unfortunately for him it did not come off that way at my previous job I was interviewing candidates for a position within my team one of the applicants was internal so I knew of her and knew she had a few cats as pets so the day of the interview arrives and she comes and we start with the basics I then asked a few competency they questions and she starts to give answers not based on her work experience she had trained overseas teams and had an impressive CV with relating the answers back to her cats for example I asked can you give me an example of your leadership skills I crap you not her answer was along the lines of well I have two cats and around feeding time I need to make sure cat one gets fed first as cat two has a weight problem and will try to eat cat ones food I need to ensure our lair by making sure cat two is kept one away from cat one until he's finished his food she then showed me pictures of the cats in question don't get me wrong there were some mighty fine beasts cat two was a fat old Frick and I have a pet cat that I was a bit surprised I did get some decent answers from her on occasion but it was a very surreal interview if she didn't get the job TL DR cats a few years ago we put out an ad for a senior software developer the description was rather broad we had a variety of projects we could stick them on but needed a senior level person that could jump in relatively quickly in comes this lady let's name her Susan with an excellent resume ten years of development experience lead level previous position listed proficiencies in all the languages we wanted even obscure ones who the heck still knows XSLT for example so we bring her for an interview one of those public-sector committee ones with preset questions and she's acing it talks a big game excitedly describes her past projects in their impact seems all around pretty personable then we deviate a bit and start asking basic coding questions and she replies with a liner I will never forget as long as I shall live oh I'm sorry I don't really do coding I have my Chinamen for that five seconds of stunned silence I beg your pardon my Chinamen let's call him Bob if something needs doing I pass it off to him and it's just done he's really good when we inquired if we could maybe interview the [ __ ] instead she got really flustered and base wound the interview down it's like we committed a great offense by implying the two of them were separate entities to this day we don't really know what the deal there was exactly TLDR our applicant had a [ __ ] personal coding slave or something maybe she was outsourcing her work through a site like our disk I was once rarely nervous at the end of my job interview and for some reason decided to stroke one of the office plants as the hiring manager walked me to the exit then I laughed awkwardly and said in a surprised tone they're real he was not impressed and I did not get the job we had a manager who did phone interviews she calls one candidate who answers oh thank god an Australian I'm so sick of speaking to Asians this manager was Asian : question was how do you install a cd-rom drive into a PC answer was you press the button put the CD in and follow the instructions on the screen I was sitting in on that interview and my boss at the time hired her we're still friends and I still give him crap for it we'll Mayo I've had some ridiculous interviews one older white woman said will I have to work with Middle Easterners and she pointed to a guy outside the meeting room the guy's was of Indian heritage but was born here I said but Mike's not from the Middle East her in the whisper you know what I mean brown people I work for a tech company another guy seems nice during introductions and then I asked my first question that's your first question you're not going to ask about the break in my experience me number I care about what whether you can do this job not what you've done the past year him but why wouldn't you ask that first me because I want to know abou the work you did at this other company him well I wrote a novel you know and it got published did you google me and know that already me I Google you didn't see anything about a novel and that isn't pertinent here can you address the question him the movie rights were auctioned I've just finished my second novel I'm looking for a publisher want to know what it's about me not right now maybe lag it's this great story me I'm sorry you're going to have to leave if you can't tell me about your practical experience you're not suited for this role received a resume title - sir I'll resume doc it wasn't us enough spelling errors punctuation problems and not one reference to us poor mr. Sano eliminated because of one capitalisation error from the other side of the table I was interviewing for a tech writing position at an engineering company the first part of the interview with the communications manager went really well and she brought me in to speak to the head of engineering he asked me lots of questions about organizing documentation and where what sections were go and why at one point he starts asking about cars he then wanted me to write a list of all the different parts of the current after completion of my list separate them into sections something like safety use maintenance et Cie so I start listing parts and he keeps telling me to keep adding to it eventually I've filled the whole page and he keeps telling me to continue I maybe know slightly more about cars than the average twenty-something woman but I'm by no means a car aficionado this job is nothing to do with cars I am confused I have no idea what this list is missing eventually I tell him so he looks me dead in the eyes and explains that I forgot to list wheels my very extensive list of car parts has no wheels certain that I bombed the interview for this very obvious and stupid oversight anyway I replied it's a hovercraft I got the job TL DR sometimes being a sassy idiot gets you hired boss later told me that she liked me the whole interview but the hovercraft comment was what cemented her decision to hire me just your standard hovercraft with disc brakes and strut suspension smoking hot woman applying for project manager job spotty job history seemed qualified and interviewed well had a criminal charge on her background check I have to ask her for permission to see the details we use a third-party agency she agreed public disorderly basically was semi naked and drunk on public property in last year of college I chose to ignore it hi her she doesn't even end up reporting to me a year later she comes to thank me said I was the first person to not try to use her a minor charge as leverage for freaking as her boss and I was also discreet and never passed on the info post interview but this was a fifth job in three years I felt bad for her thankfully it's all been successful ever since you've made a big change in her life that's what it's all about I was doing interviews and got to the standard what is your weakness question the guys response was personal hygiene I actually did this cause I was nervous is this a picture of your wife she is beautiful that is my 14 year old daughter nice nice find her viewed a thirty year old guy who had gotten all his previous jobs through connections it was his first job interview ever although he turned out to be the sweetest nicest gentlest person you could imagine he looked like ax murdering serial debaucher kidnapper did love fiend motorcycle gang member psychopath the dude was genuinely scary-looking he was super quiet super shy and was so nervous about this interview that he was sweating like crazy overall he wasn't making a good impression he said in the interview I know I look scary and I'm really shy so people think I'm a psycho but it's not like a some frickin criminal I'm just a nice guy he then realized that he said the F word while admitting that people were scared of him he then said I imagine this isn't going very well I ended up hiring him and he was the best worker and one of the nicest people I've ever known in my life I was interviewing a girl to work as a pharmacy technician and during the interview she told me she sells her adderall to her friends I facepalm because I had a male comment for a pharmacy technician and told us casually he was going to bring spare stock bottles with some extra pills home and research them on top of everything else I was in charge of infantry I asked a candidate if he was bilingual he got shocked and uncomfortable before the Erie awkwardly trying to flirt when I explained what bilingual meant he replied with no I only speak American well I guess he gave you his answer all right it wasn't during an interview but a kid looking to get hired at my store came in and asked to speak to me I was out the day he came in so he asked my coworkers the next day I would be there and plan to come back well two days later when I was back he came back with his grandmother now this didn't bother me at first because we have hired some kids who were too young to drive that had a good head on their shoulders what did bother me is when the kids stood by the door and the grandmother came to talk to me alone she started having the interview for him when I didn't even plan on giving the kid an interview yet she handed me a resume that I'm fairly sure she designed in paint and started spouting off all these really admirable trees about this kid meanwhile he stood by the door and looked straight down at his shoes she told me what a hard worker he was how quick of a learner he wasn't because this was a retail job she tried to tell me how personable he was i crap you not this lady looked me dead in the eyes with her grandson standing 50 feet away and tried to tell me he was great with people and that he had no problems approaching anyone I was stunned I kindly told her that I would keep his resume on file but at the moment we were not looking for any new employees so she thanks me and shakes my hand and walks over to her grandson she whispers something in his ear and he walks over to me he doesn't say a word and just sticks his hand out at me I went to shake his hand but I'm not entirely sure he understood the concept of a handshake I was grabbing his hand and shaking while he just let his limp clammy hand sit in my grasp until it was over he then turned around and left dude you should have just said hey man come over let me talk to you he was humiliated probably not at his fault nah bro stopped using see like two weeks ago was the response to my question about familiarity with agile processes candidate when I was at the University of Ohio me your resume says you went to the University of Tennessee candidate wait which resume do you have while interviewing a prospective new designer we noticed he'd totally plagiarized a design that was known to us after he repeatedly denied it I just got up and left find a hiring manager the best I've ever come across is so I can see you have a 16-year gap in your employment history what did you do during that time mainly just walked my dog vacant stares all around say what you will but this man probably didn't have a patchy lawn full of poop fine too viewed a leprechaun once he was a short somewhat overweight guy that was a virus descent had red hair and a beard he chose to wear oval things a green suit to the interview it was hard to keep a straight face especially when my interviewing partner mentioned a rainbow table cryptography and said our code was gold standard and lamented the construction going on at the cloverleaf exit near the office your interviewing partner is the best kind of terrible person every workplace needs someone like him P my favorite was when I had to interview this total bro so many cringe-worthy interview mess ups I had to hold myself in from laughing when asked about dealing with difficult customers he mentioned he hated dealing with crappy brown people with long but last names I had one recently where the person came in with a tank top and board shorts then started the interview by saying sorry I was just on a trip in Bermuda puts thumbs in tank top straps that's probably why I am so tan we did not hire this gentleman not a hiring manager but I had used the term lot lizard to describe a job I held at a Harley Davidson after high school it was on my resume for a few years it took a girlfriend who informed me that a lot live it is a highway rest stop prostitute that mainly services truckers when I worked in a grocery co-op I had some interesting interviews one rarely sticks out in my mind me why do you want to work with our company Kim because you guys don't drug test me we do random drug testing what makes you think that we don't him this is a co-op you guys sell weed why would you drug test that's hypocritical that's how we found out that the receiver on the loading dock was selling drugs out the side door if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Length: 22min 23sec (1343 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 11 2020