I job hop every year or so and the last few years some of the job interviews have immediately turned me off the company. I wanted to see what everyone had to share about their bad interview experiences. I'll share some recent experiences.
In late 2020 I was interviewing for Dish as an Account Retention specialist (remote) or something. It was over the phone and one of their questions immediately made me hate the company. I'd never used them before and will always tell people this story.
“It's not uncommon for us to get calls from people trying to end their parent's or grandparent's service because they are deceased. How would you handle that conversation to keep the account?”
It caught me so off guard that such a heartless question would be part of the interview. I made my way through the interview and was scheduled for a 2nd interview a few days later. However they wouldn't schedule me for it until I could confirm that I already had a work setup with 2 monitors, webcam etc. I only had one at first so they told me to let them know when I'd purchased a second one. I lied and said I had another one the day after so they scheduled my but made sure to say that during that interview they'd need to see that I did actually have everything. I no showed the interview because fuck that.
I've only ever had issues with TTEC. I've submitted a few applications and several of them I just can't complete because their systems are shit. Once I made it to an “interview” but it was basically a 30 person zoom meeting where they do a powerpoint presentation and tell you they only pay $12/hour then let you go into break rooms to talk to people about scheduling an interview. I left once they announced the pay and weekend requirements.
Fuck CVS. They are one of those companies that makes you do a 45 minute assessment where you roleplay a call center agent and have to play along with a recording as well as answer a ton of multiple choice questions. I've only ever gotten declines from them but I've also just clicked my way through everything and let them knew exactly how I felt about their process in their survey at the end.
I had an interview with Regions a couple weeks ago for a mortgage support role. I had like 11 interviews that week for multiple positions and this was the only one that stood out poorly. In every other interview they showed up on time, introduced themselves, were friendly the entire time and I had a good idea of the position but they let me ask any questions I had. The 2 women for the Regions interview showed up late, didn't introduce themselves and kept the 🤨 annoyed face the entire time. I wouldn't even call it an interview since one woman just went through my resume and I basically had to restate my experience and why I left a position. The second woman barely said anything but kept kept the same annoyed face as the other woman. When she finally finished having me read my resume to her the lady just started wrapping up the meeting. I still had questions because nothing about the position was discussed, there were no interview questions, only resume review and she begrudgingly told me that I wouldn't have to do more interviews when I asked what the hiring timeline looked like for the position. I was not surprised when I got the decline email the following day. Not like I had years relevant of banking experience or anything.