There comes a point in everyone’s life sooner or later when we’re looking for a job, and if your name isn’t Kevin Durant or maybe Lamar Jackson and you don’t have employers lining up to you themselves, then you’ll definitely have to go through the nine circles of hell… sorry, through the job interview procedure.

It’s probably hard to find someone who doesn’t have some funny, weird, or instructive tale about going through an interview under their belt, and very often those stories are related to the interview questions. Sometimes the HR guys pretend to act like their colleagues from Google or Facebook, and this turns into some completely unexpected questions that are mostly unrelated to your future job. And sometimes… well, sometimes those who sit on the other side of the table are simply incompetent.

#1

(I’m deaf and we were writing back and forth to communicate)

She wrote to me “can you read?”

I wrote back “yes. Can you write?”

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#2

*Is your husband okay with you working full-time?* In 2011, in the US. My response: *”Yeah, my husband likes that I bring home a paycheck.”*

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#3

Maybe this applies more to weird answers, but I also hate when companies ask these questions in interviews.

“Outside of work-related skills, what is one thing you feel you know a lot about?”

My answer: “Cats. I know a lot of facts about cats and cat breeds.”

Apparently, this was not the expertise they were looking for. Their loss.

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#4

Them: Sorry even though your portfolio looks good but I can’t really hire you because your biological clock is ticking and you’re already married for 1.5 yrs so any day you can get pregnant and go on a long leave

Me: But I don’t plan on having kids anytime soon

Them: We can’t trust a married woman of your age. And it’s not just up to you to have a kid no. There’s pressure from husband, in-laws etc, what will you do then.

This happened in 2022, just last year. I left the place in rage and thanked them that they showed their true colours in the beginning itself and not when I started working.

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#5

Them: Do you know how to use a computer?

Me: Uh, yeah?

Them: What’s the difference between hardware and software?

Me: Hardware is physical components like the ram and motherboard, software programs, and applications installed on the computer.

Them: Okay, name a few pieces of hardware and what they do.

This went on for a long time, btw the interview was for a position that had literally Zero to do with computers

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#6

They asked me what route I drove to get to the company. I told them. They then commented that I was “outside” the normal range of hiring . . . as in they only hire people who live within a 10 mile radius from the company. I asked why they even bothered to call me in for an interview. They didn’t have an answer, and I didn’t get the job.

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#7

I was interviewing for a trucking logistics company that my husband works for. My husband (without me knowing) had the interviewer ask me what I would say if someone called and asked if we could transport llamas.

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#8

“Do you want to have children soon?” got asked this question when I was 16 applying for summer job.

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#9

I always think the question: “Do you consider yourself a team player?” a weird question. Like, how do you really think I’m going to answer that? “NO, I hate people and teamwork is frustrating because experience has shown me that people don’t pull their weight, I’d rather work autonomously with only minimal input from others unless it’s my direct supervisor.” A lot of questions are kind of like that. You can’t really tell the truth.

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#10

“Are you in a satanist cult?”

It was a religious institution and they had an issue with that in the past, so the question was actually kind of appropriate? Still weird though.

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#11

I see you aren’t married. Have you [ever made love] before, and are you currently engaging in fornication?

It was for a fundamentalist preschool.

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#12

They placed their can of Diet Mt Dew in front of me and told me to sell them Diet Mt Dew.

I was interviewing for a pet store

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#13

I was declined a job because they didn’t know if I could “encompass their ‘voice'”. I asked for a bit of clarification, and they said “we subscribe to Yodellen”. My job has lots of different theories to base info off of, so I was going through my internal rolodex thinking I’d really missed something. The person then said “that is a mix of the wisdom of Yoda, and the fun of Ellen, and we’re not sure if you can do that”. I don’t know how I kept a straight face, but I thanked them and left. I still think about it often and it cracks me up each time.

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#14

I guess I should answer for myself. I asked this because I was so curious after a job interview last spring (right before I decided to start working for myself) and someone asked me “Are you sure you have all this experience?” I guess insinuated I was lying on my resume (my experience is not THAT great anyway tbh). I could only think to respond “if you don’t think thats my real experience, why are you interviewing me?’

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#15

Interviewer: what’s your favorite color?

Me: black

Interviewer *disappointed*: no, you can do better

Me: um… purple

Interviewer: ah! You’re a reliable person

Me: *gets the job*

#16

“Are you in a relationship?”

I was far too confused and nervous to confront them about it, but obviously I steered clear from that place.

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#17

I have a naturally raspy voice and I had a phone interview and the guy was like “how long have you been smoking for?”. Like… Excuse me????

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#18

Someone asked me to pretend I was a fly and discuss my daily plans 😭

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#19

Q: why are you applying to this job, frankly you can do better with your qualifications.

I was so confused lol. Like lady I need a job to pay my bills what’s it to you?

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#20

I once interviewed for a copywriting job and had mentioned on my résumé and in my cover letter that I had a successful blog which was where a lot of my writing experience came from. They asked me during the interview how many hours a week I usually spent on my blog because they were concerned about it cutting into the time I could spend on the job.

I found this pretty inappropriate and insulting. Obviously if I got the job, I would work on tasks related to that job while at it. Having a financially successful hobby doesn’t mean someone is incapable of having a job.

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#21

If I ever cheated on someone and if I’m currently in a relationship..

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#22

Are you aware of laws on working hour limitations for this job? (You cannot legally do the job more than 16 hours straight- which happened frequently there)

Do you have any other obligations or habits in your life currently that could prevent you from coming in to work on short notice? (Assuming they mean have kids or would get inebriated)

Oh do you know —-? Ah, you had the same last name so I was curious haha. Related to —? I graduated with their sibling. (Essentially asking if I was related)

All of these things I didn’t connect the dots of “asking without asking” legal tricks until much later.

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#23

Who is your hero?

You mean batman or spiderman? Do I aspire to be Rosa Parks? Stormy Daniels?

I am my own effing hero.

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