30 People Share Their "Worst Job Interview" Stories That Will Make You Thankful You Weren't "That" Guy

Some interview just go the worst way possible no matter how well-prepared you are for it.

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• Published in Interesting
• July 27, 2022

Feeling nervous and anxious before a job interview is perfectly normal. After all, there's all that pressure of leaving a good impression on the company that you want to work with and the people who might help you determine the direction of your career.

Unfortunately, not everyone is really good at managing those feelings. Some people end up becoming total nervous wrecks dripping with sweat, forgetting details about themselves, and even stuttering.

As if that's not enough, some managers or recruiters don't seem to have the interest in being empathetic and end up brutalizing their potential employees for no good reason. Some of them would even reason out that that's the way they would pick out the shining candidates from the weeds.

With all that, we can all agree that there are plenty of opportunities for job interviews to go wrong. It just differs from how bad things really go.

On Reddit, someone asked users to share their gruesome job interview experiences and many excitedly shared their stories. So if you have an upcoming job interview, better close your eyes or brave it out.

Who knows? It might prepare you for the worst out there so if you're willing, keep reading on.

1. These interviewers should have also had the courtesy to say it earlier so nobody had to waste their time

2. Isn't this illegal as well?

3. We're guessing he was quickly shown out the door after this

4. They decided based on appearances and that's completely unfair

5. You have to be awake on the job after all

6. She clearly didn't read the job posting very carefully or even have common sense

7. He probably should have shown more dedication to the company

8. Who knew that it just takes a fart to throw the interviewer out of balance

9. Was that by any chance Harvey Weinstein or one of his pals?

10. Getting that number of rejections from one company can really dent one's confidence

11. A chicken dying on you doesn't really inspire much confidence for potential employees

12. The dedication of this 60-year-old is something to applaud

13. This interviewer seems to be looking for someone he can be cohorts with

14. It's amazing they still get customers with the kind of carelessness they have

15. Shouldn't employers not underestimate potential employees until they've seen what they can actually do?

16. This interviewer was probably a sadist who just loved watching people squirm under their power

17. This guy was basically just waving a huge red flag

18. The job was just not meant to be for him right from the beginning

19. How could anyone go through this interview without sweating buckets?

20. That must have been some vocal exercise for nothing

21. What they did to this poor guy is just lame and unprofessional

22. It's not hard to show even the least bit amount of respect really but this woman didn't even have the decency

22. This person has good sense to refuse working with someone like that

24. It's a big red flag when they keep looking for new people every time

25. Maybe she wasn't aware that she wasn't the one who made the rules in that situation

26. This person might just not have noticed that they actually did something right

27. The amount of stress the interview is foreshadowing already makes it not worth it for this person

28. It really pays to check twice or even thrice the details of your interview before going in

29. At least this guy was honest about it

30. Maybe he was trying to go for a Wolf of Wall Street kind of vibe

These examples just show that no matter how prepared you are for interviews, something can definitely go wrong at any turn so you have to be prepared to accept that too. Just take it as the world throwing a sign in your direction of where you're meant to be in life.

Which story terrified you the most? Do you have any "worst interview stories" of your own?

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