Just had a very painful interview...

[Zeze]

I was interviewing a candidate.... you know you feel like you're afraid to ask a question because you kind of know that person won't be able to answer it?

The guy never went into the depth. He answered every question with the same style of "I'd meet with everyone, then with one by one and get the project going."

Man, I had to pokerface this so hard so we have a pleasant experience together in this interview.

 

[kt]

Why don't you ask him to elaborate?

 

[Zeze]

Why don't you ask him to elaborate?

I did. Many times.

 

[SKORPI0]

Maybe you didn't ask the right questions. How did you gauge that the person won't be able to answer "correctly"?
I've shaken my head in times that later on a person who couldn't do the simplest task and wondered how they got that job. Someone failed on weeding them out.

 

[IronWing]

 

[nakedfrog]

I'm glad I haven't had to interview anyone in a few years, it was usually kind of soul-crushing knowing that so many morons kept walking around and finding new employment.
If it was one where I could tell it was going south and they weren't a good fit, I'd kind of just ask a question, and once they gave any answer, move onto the next (HR didn't like it if someone didn't feel they'd been given a full interview).

 

[pete6032]

Well at least the decision to hire or not is easy. It's the ones that interview well but lack real world experience, or interview OK and have an OK amount of experience that can really burn you in the end.

 

[dullard]

I was interviewing a candidate.... you know you feel like you're afraid to ask a question because you kind of know that person won't be able to answer it?

I went through the other side of this recently. I have a job, but was hoping to get better coworkers in a new company.

I was on a job interview and all the questions had absolutely nothing to do with the job application. I was fairly confident that the interviewer did not have a clue as to what the actual job was. It would be like interviewing for a chef position and asking about brain surgery, philosophy, car repair, and circus feats. I had to answer almost every question vaguely and eventually just stopped the interview asking what the company was really looking for in this position. He rattled off a bunch of items that were never posted on the job listing. I think I only gave a good answer to 5% of the questions and met almost none of his wish-list items. It truly was a very miserable experience for me.

Two days later they called back for a second interview and I turned it down.

 

[Mai72]

Was his mom sitting with him on the interview?

 

[Captante]

Maybe you didn't ask the right questions. How did you gauge that the person won't be able to answer "correctly"?
I shaken my head in times that later on a person who couldn't do the simplest task and wondered how they got that job. Someone failed on weeding them out.

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[Dr. Detroit]

The worst interviews are when you know its a hard NO and you're less than 5-minutes in - now you've got 30 minutes to kill and its misery.