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Worst-ever job interviews: 'We had to crawl and moo'
- joegibbs 3y agoSounds like they were inspired by the "Boar on the Floor" episode of Succession, playing a kind of dominance ritual over the prospective employee in the guise of "a bit of fun".
- randomcarbloke 3y agoThis, but hire anyone that declines.
- tetris11 3y ago...have you even met senior management? They're long past their usefulness and not only does everyone else around them know it, but they've caught on too. All they have left to maintain their status are power trips, since merit is no longer a metric they themselves can abide by.
- goodpoint 3y ago> merit is no longer a metric In most places it never was.
- goodpoint 3y agoA company that does this should be sued out of existence.
- bobim 3y agoCompanies don't exist, individuals do. It's all coming from a few sociopaths that will happily go poisoning another company.
- goodpoint 2y agoYou are absolutely right. In a better society sociopaths would be pushed out of the market. Instead they are promoted or made billionaires.
- nope1000 3y agoFunnily enough, according to the article it was a (minimum wage) job at a university, not even a company.
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- cjk2 3y agoIf someone did this to me I would tell them to fuck off rather loudly.
- pera 3y agounfortunately telling a potential employer to fuck off is a privilege not everyone has
- pylua 3y agoI can picture the linked in headline now. Why I made our prospects crawl and moo, and why you should, too.
- cjk2 3y agoThis is depressingly accurate but nowhere near the worst thing I've seen on there.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoThe headline or the interview? I've heard my share of interview hells, but I don't think aything tops crawling and moo'ing.
- cjk2 3y agoBoth. I had one weird one. I once interviewed for a gay social network which was going under because they didn't have any engineers left. I am not gay. They tried to convert me. I politely said that while I have nothing but respect for the gay community, I am simply not gay. They said I wasn't the sort of person they were looking for then and said "shoo along then!".
- Smaug123 3y agoI do not like this interview; I will not pander, crawl, or moo.
- mysterydip 3y agoDo you like green bucks and care? Do you like them, Smaug-you-are?
- Smaug123 3y agoI prefer the following to make the rhyme less tenuous: > You want some wages, Smaug-you-are? Your attitude won't take you far.
- protoman3000 3y agoThat is always the problem behind selections, gatekeeping, rules, control etc. in human contexts: They definitely have merit and aim initially for a good cause, but their institution over time always attracts sick people, bullies, who like to abuse others and seek situations where they will not be punished for it. Imagine being that person, who’s daily job and enjoyment is to reject other people, drag them through this disrespectful and demeaning process, witness the disappointment and sadness in the others eyes when they get to hear “No.” and when blame themselves for it.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago>the "cancellation" had actually been a test, which she had failed. So what was the "answer" here? Refuse to leave until she got an interview? Now she's just tresspassing. They really don't think these "tests" through, do they? A lot of the other exaamples are straight up illegal in the US, though (though not all examples are in the US). So I guess that answers the question then and there. We were long overdue for a proper audit of a bunch of illegal and unethcical (e.g. ghost jobs) practices for a while, even before it became a "buyer's market"), too bad it looks like it'll get worse before it gets better.
- makeitdouble 3y agoThe article really needs more reporting on what exactly they were told from the other side of the table, even if half of the time it would have been unexcusable bullshit. For the lawyer job it's said she left upset, but we don't get anything more about the interaction, which seemed to be the crucial part if it was a test. I'd see a point if the core of the job is to deal with conflictual situations, and it could be fair if the cabinet took the time to explain why they fail the test and how they could have been better (doesn't sound like they did, but it would at least balance the stress imposed on the candidates)
- yobbo 3y agoWow. Literally kowtowing ...
- 10xDev 3y agoWhen I was applying to internship dev roles a long while ago it was very common to come across “record yourself” interviews and a situational test. Next stage was often some group interview where you had to put a presentation together or create a presentation yourself on why the company is so great. Almost none of it had anything to do with tech or development.
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- iamacyborg 3y agoI had one recently where the first stage, before you’d even spoken to a single person, was an assessment with an estimated duration of 76 minutes. Camera on was required and they’d be taking periodic snapshots of both my screen and my camera. Immediately noped out of that and told the hiring team why.
- e40 3y agoThat sounds insane. What was the position?
- iamacyborg 3y agoIt was for a chief of staff position. The company sells hiring assessments software so it makes sense that they used their own product, it was just at a completely wrong part of the hiring funnel and highlighted, to me, what seemed like an incredibly cynical view of what hiring should look like.
- whamlastxmas 3y agoThere’s a company in the monthly hiring thread this month that does the same, but it’s a constant live stream and you’re not allows to look away from the camera or move from your desk
- johnnyanmac 3y agoI had that. No way I was gonna install such invasive software with no guarantee of a human even caring about my work. If you're hiring manager can spend 10 minutes sussing out if my solution was using AI or not without sitting there watching over my shoulder, then that says more about the company than me.
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- Cthulhu_ 3y agoDownvote and move on, it's a mostly unfiltered link aggregator. There may be bots active upvoting things though.
- nunez 3y agoWow; all of these are straight up illegal in US employment law. I guess this is why we have to suffer through fair employment training every year!
- red-iron-pine 3y agoa few "hiring for dummies" is an acceptable trade-off to avoid this, IMO. a previous org sent us to a local community college that ran a 3-weekend "HR 101 for new managers" that was one of the best investments / training I've gotten.
- underseacables 3y agoWorst job interview I ever had was when I had to sit with three other candidates side by side as the employer interviewed us, and then played us off one another.
- drewcoo 3y agoYou interviewed on The Dating Game? edit: Oh - they only had 3 candidates at a time!