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I once had a guy in an interview panel pour out a packet of salt and chop it into lines with a credit card at an interview with a major tech company you've hear

I once had a guy in an interview panel pour out a packet of salt and chop it into lines with a credit card at an interview with a major tech company you've heard of. It was like a nervous habit or something. This was back in the late 1990s. I was like WTF. Ya, you really have to pay attention to red flags, you'll be working (stuck) with them for at least a year, possibly more, and you will depend on them for your livelihood and family's survival.

smugma 4y ago
That’s weird, but like you say, it seemed like a sort of nervous habit. Not during interviews, but sometimes I close my eyes when I want to focus intently on what the speaker is saying. I used to twirl my pencil. I try and give both interviewers and interviewees the benefit of the doubt. Walking out without saying anything seems pretty rude, but I don’t know all the circumstances. Laughing in your face seems much worse. It’s a two way interview. If it doesn’t feel right, hopefully you’ve got other options and don’t need to proceed. Or get an offer (if it isn’t going to take 5 more rounds of interviewing, you’ve already committed time to the interview, consider whether it’s worth taking it to completion) and then raise concerns and listen to how your concerns are addressed.
- LgWoodenBadger 4y ago
  In case you didn't realize, but cutting-salt-into-lines is usually a behavior more associated with cocaine usage than nervous habit
  - smugma 4y ago
    I've never done cocaine but have cut sugar into lines for fun (but not at work, and definitely not in an interview)
  - denton-scratch 4y ago
    I assumed the OP was using "salt" euphemistically. I've never heard of coke-heads chopping-up sodium chloride!
cyberei 4y ago
> you'll be working (stuck) with them for at least a year, possibly more Why is that? Do you mean it looks bad in the CV if you leave too soon?
- Clubber 4y ago
  >Why is that? Do you mean it looks bad in the CV if you leave too soon? That's one thing, also life happens where it's more beneficial to stay someplace to keep the income coming in than it is to spend hours off the clock finding and preparing a different job. Say a medical problem, or you need to pay to fix damage to your house, or a spouse lost a job, etc.
sharadov 4y ago
Are you sure it was salt? Cocaine sounds more like it. He was 1. Either trying to kick a cocaine habit, and was still going through the motions with something that looked like cocaine 2. He was going to offer the coke to OP and see if he was a culture fit.

smugma 4y ago

That’s weird, but like you say, it seemed like a sort of nervous habit. Not during interviews, but sometimes I close my eyes when I want to focus intently on what the speaker is saying. I used to twirl my pencil. I try and give both interviewers and interviewees the benefit of the doubt. Walking out without saying anything seems pretty rude, but I don’t know all the circumstances. Laughing in your face seems much worse. It’s a two way interview. If it doesn’t feel right, hopefully you’ve got other options and don’t need to proceed. Or get an offer (if it isn’t going to take 5 more rounds of interviewing, you’ve already committed time to the interview, consider whether it’s worth taking it to completion) and then raise concerns and listen to how your concerns are addressed.

LgWoodenBadger 4y ago
In case you didn't realize, but cutting-salt-into-lines is usually a behavior more associated with cocaine usage than nervous habit
- smugma 4y ago
  I've never done cocaine but have cut sugar into lines for fun (but not at work, and definitely not in an interview)
- denton-scratch 4y ago
  I assumed the OP was using "salt" euphemistically. I've never heard of coke-heads chopping-up sodium chloride!

cyberei 4y ago

> you'll be working (stuck) with them for at least a year, possibly more Why is that? Do you mean it looks bad in the CV if you leave too soon?

Clubber 4y ago
>Why is that? Do you mean it looks bad in the CV if you leave too soon? That's one thing, also life happens where it's more beneficial to stay someplace to keep the income coming in than it is to spend hours off the clock finding and preparing a different job. Say a medical problem, or you need to pay to fix damage to your house, or a spouse lost a job, etc.

sharadov 4y ago

Are you sure it was salt? Cocaine sounds more like it. He was 1. Either trying to kick a cocaine habit, and was still going through the motions with something that looked like cocaine 2. He was going to offer the coke to OP and see if he was a culture fit.