One time my interviewer was eating. Like just eating an apple while chatting with me.
Weirdest interview experiences?
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Kosta_Konfucius
Politicker
7
Sales Rep
Couple years ago i interviewed where they had me meet president and his wife. Wife didn’t work for the company. Was interesting for sure
BmajoR
Arsonist
6
Account Executive
Did they offer to buy you a drink?
Fenderbaum
Politicker
10
Retired Choirboy🪕
Sounds like a swingers interview.
CuriousFox
WR Officer
5
🦊
💯 ‼🐈‼
SaaSguy
Tycoon
6
Account Executive
Had an interviewer get extremely combative to the point he was almost shouting at me. He was explaining how you can close a deal but not have a concrete idea on how much revenue that will earn.
I asked how we would handle forecasting if we had no idea how much acv a deal would generate, especially since the company was apparently trying to go public, and I guess that question struck a nerve as they hadn't figured it out.
I asked how we would handle forecasting if we had no idea how much acv a deal would generate, especially since the company was apparently trying to go public, and I guess that question struck a nerve as they hadn't figured it out.
jefe
Arsonist
4
🍁
This is actually hilarious
Beans
Big Shot
4
Enterprise Account Executive
I was sent a random link, that led to an IQ test - told to share my screen and answer the questions live in the set time. The hiring manager did not speak for the entire rest of the session, and when I was done he said he'd reach back out after he reviewed the results...
Med Dev Startup.
Med Dev Startup.
Rallier
Politicker
4
SDR Manager and Consultant
Someone asked what if every time I walked into a room a song played, what song would you want that to be?
Obviously didn't work there
Obviously didn't work there
jefe
Arsonist
4
🍁
I worked somewhere (terrible) where we had a walk-up song to hit the gong.
Mine was C.R.E.A.M.
Mine was C.R.E.A.M.
Juancallclose
Catalyst
1
Director
I think mine would be Stone Cold Steve Austin breaking glass, or the Crying game.
Sunbunny31
Politicker
2
Sr Sales Executive 🐰
Former baseball players wanting your walk-up music?
HVACexpert
Politicker
2
sales engineer
Unskinny Bop - Poison
GDO
Politicker
3
BDM
Spoke to a totally different person than the person I would be meeting because our national football team was playing. They guy just delegated the task of speaking to me. In the end I got the job and worked there for 1,5 years
butwhy
Politicker
3
Solutions Engineer
Got called "one of those flighty millennials" offhand by the hiring manager. I ghosted them, that whole place had weird vibes anyway.
HappyGilmore
Politicker
2
Account Executive
Last winter I had an interview with a large SaaS org, two people from their side on the call. One of them was walking to the office, and for the last ten minutes, decided to eat a bag of chips while asking me questions.
The other interviewer threw questions at me such as "how would your spouse describe you?", and overall was just a weird and awful experience.
The other interviewer threw questions at me such as "how would your spouse describe you?", and overall was just a weird and awful experience.
HVACexpert
Politicker
2
sales engineer
I had an interview for a door-to-door sales job selling an at home product. We went into the interview 3 at a time. They guy spoke for 5 minutes patting himself on the back how awesome they were. Asked if we would like to join and has to say yes/no right then. All three of looked at each other, all said no, and left.
I waited an hour to interview with a full room of people…
I waited an hour to interview with a full room of people…
ThatNewAE
Big Shot
2
Account Executive - Mid enterprise
I was asked in one the interviews if I had any plans of getting married the following year / plan kids because they wanted to "plan their resources accordingly".This was in an interview. First call ever, that I was asked this.
Juancallclose
Catalyst
1
Director
Also a couple of years ago I interviewed with an ETL company and they were such a mess that they asked me to do a presentation on the intro call. Their wires were so crossed that they thought I was in stage 4 when I was in stage 2 of the interview.
LambyCorn
Arsonist
1
A mfkn E
CEO hitting on me lol
ventox35
Politicker
1
Sales Leader
VP of sales walking the computer to his back porch to smoke a cigar. accidentally inhaled, couldn't stop coughing. he was great.
SaaSyBee
Politicker
1
Founder
Someone said they wished they could meet my parents to see if I was raised right
RelationshipMaker
Opinionated
1
Head of Sales
Interviewed yesterday with a VP and CEO. Both of them texted and emailed while talking to me. This is the final round where I spent the best part of the weekend preparing for it. Felt like I wasted my time.
Juancallclose
Catalyst
0
Director
Wonder if you got the job?
RelationshipMaker
Opinionated
1
Head of Sales
Thanks for wondering! I was offered the role after yet another interview and decided that the culture wasn’t the right fit for me. The interview was brought forward to a Sunday afternoon because one of the board was flying out. That Sunday happened to be Fathers Day. I’m still annoyed at myself for agreeing to it.
LegacySales
Politicker
1
Account Executive
Had an interviewer say:
"Please research this company and pretend that you are giving our product demo to the CIO."
Did all the research, prepped the deck, etc.
We proceeded to get into an argument for 30minutes about who the CIO was. I was right as the new CIO was fresh on the job for 3 weeks and the old CIO of 7 years had retired.
"Please research this company and pretend that you are giving our product demo to the CIO."
Did all the research, prepped the deck, etc.
We proceeded to get into an argument for 30minutes about who the CIO was. I was right as the new CIO was fresh on the job for 3 weeks and the old CIO of 7 years had retired.
Juancallclose
Catalyst
0
Director
This never happened to me and it's not sales related, but apparently in the restaurant biz, some hiring managers like to walk prospective employees to their car to see how clean and uncluttered it is. This is for a waiter job.
Juancallclose
Catalyst
0
Director
I once had to do a presentation. Prepped a couple of days for it. Instructions were "you're presenting to so and so and your goal is to" Right before I present, whether he meant to or not, he flipped the topic. Didn't go great but according to them I should've challenged that instead I just winged it. My bad I guess.
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