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What’s the most ridiculous request you’ve gotten during an interview?

The “sell me this pen” question posted this morning reminded me of an interview I had with a hair dye company years ago. The interview took literally two hours. The first part was meeting with HR and one of the owners face to face, then they asked me a shit ton of questions off a list about imposter syndrome, feminism, gender equality, etc. Then to top it off, at the end of part two of my interview THEY LOVKED ME IN A ROOM WITH A GIANT ONE HOUR TIMER AND ASKED ME TO WRITE AN ESSAY ON HOW TO MAKE A PBJ SANDWICH. Like?!?!?! Then after all that I didn’t even get a call back.


The “sell me this pen” question posted this morning reminded me of an interview I had with a hair dye company years ago. The interview took literally two hours. The first part was meeting with HR and one of the owners face to face, then they asked me a shit ton of questions off a list about imposter syndrome, feminism, gender equality, etc. Then to top it off, at the end of part two of my interview THEY LOVKED ME IN A ROOM WITH A GIANT ONE HOUR TIMER AND ASKED ME TO WRITE AN ESSAY ON HOW TO MAKE A PBJ SANDWICH. Like?!?!?! Then after all that I didn’t even get a call back.

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