Worst Job Interviews Ever

Have you ever had a bad job interview? You are not alone! Most people do. Some have many. And I've also had many. Here are my worst job interviews ever!

***My GET HIRED Course***

***My $100 MBA Course***

***My WRITE LIKE A PROFESSIONAL Course***

My GET HIRED Series of Videos:

My Other YouTube Channel:

My Patreon:

Consulting Services for Business Clients:

My Twitter:

My Facebook Page:

My "GET HIRED" Facebook Group:

My "ENTREPRENEUR SUCCESS" Facebook Group:

Throughout my career, I have done many interviews - both as a jobseeker and as a hiring manager. I have also worked closely with both high-level and low-level recruiters and hiring consultants over the years.
In this video, I describe my worst job interview experiences as a jobseeker, and also present the lessons from these experiences.
This video is split into part 1 and part 2. Over the course of these two videos, I cover my worst interviews ever, bad job interview experiences, my bad job interviews, and all things to do with having a bad interview. The lessons I derive are for both jobseekers and interviewers.
So, if you have had your worst job interview ever (or simply your worst interview ever), take heart - it happens to us all.

There is a big difference between what you learn in business school, and what you need to know in the real world – just ask any startup founder or business owner! My goal is to focus on the real-world aspects of business, giving practical tips and tricks that are not usually covered in school.

This channel is a platform to help entrepreneurs and business owners succeed. It is also to help the world at large to be more effective and successful. The world can certainly use more inspiring leaders, more successful entrepreneurs, and more capable managers - that is what I would like to help bring about.

Who Am I?
I am a practicing management consultant, former CEO, and entrepreneur. I have led many businesses to success, as well as several startups. Among other things, I have an engineering degree, a master's degree in finance, and a master black belt in lean six sigma.

I have worked across five industries, and have worked in both large enterprise and small businesses. In the last five years, I have also been mentoring startup founders and teaching business at a post-graduate level.

Why I Want To Involve My Community:
The only way this channel will succeed is with YOUR help. In order to know how best to proceed, I need constant feedback from YOU. What topics should I cover? What challenges are you facing? What questions do you have? What changes should I make?

Please contact me with questions, and I will try my best to help. Best of luck!

Why I Need Your Help:
It is also very important to me that this channel be financially independent, and not be sustained by corporate sponsors. That way, I can be objective and honest, without having to serve interested parties, or disguise promotions as “advice”. My professional reputation is very important to me. I will invest the money raised back into the video making process. Your support will allow me to continue producing videos on a regular basis, and with increasing quality and usefulness.

Thank you for being here and reading this, and have yourself an amazing day!

-Bill "The Companies Expert"

[TheCompaniesExpert]

Have you ever had a bad job interview? You are not alone! Everyone has them sooner or later. Does it teach us anything? How can we avoid them?

[rebeccav.]

My worst interview ever was for a sales job and I was being interviewed by the man who would be my manager. He was totally rude, he barked questions at me, groaned out loud at my answers and at one point buried his face in his hands. And I ended up getting the job! But even though it paid well, I did not take it. There was no way I was going to work for a guy like that!

[raymaybury]

I had an interview where I was so nervous I stuttered my way thought it and then proceeded to knock a large pile of papers off the interviewers desk. It's hilarious looking back, but at the time it was deeply embarrassing. I didn't get the job!

[polaela]

On one of my first interviews, year 2006, when all kind of shitty recruting methods were being practiced, one lady left a room for 5 minutes, when she came back, she looked at the desk, at some stuff she left there, and accused me of touching them. It was some kind of test, but I still don't know what it was about. Very unpleasant, she was so persistent, it didn't matter what I said.

[sy]

Please turn down background music ! thanks for your awesome videos !

[macx]

I had two interviews where my would be bosses tried to undermine my value. Telling me im not competent enough, and in the same interview negotiating my salary. Scummy tactic, reduce my self worth so they can convince me im not worth as much as i want. One dude offered me 1/6th of my worth :D

[karennyondo]

Just got out of an interview for some short course I applied for. I studied so hard for this and practiced a lot of times but I panicked and my mind just went blank during the interview. Came here to feel better😂😂.

[lesliesmith]

Hello! I just wanted to send along a genuine thank you! I took myself out of the job market for about 6 months to finish grad school for nursing education. During the last couple years, I had different types of leadership opportunities at work and then was nominated for NSLS during right as I was finishing school. I realized I would be better in a different area and began applying for nurse manager positions. I got an interview and found your channel! I watched multiple videos, took notes, and watched multiple times! I felt soooo prepared for the interview! I received a job offer that I would have accepted, but I felt more confident asking for more! I didn't get the full amount, but they came up 2k/ year! I'm nervously excited to be starting in a few weeks! I'll be continuing to watch your videos as I grow my leadership skillz and work toward certifications! Thank you so very much!

[jesssss]

If everyone had higher standards and refused bad quality jobs we would all be doing fine. It’s when you lower your standards that you are lowering them for yourself and everyone else. Because you are accepting disrespectful, unnecessary, time wasting, treatment.

[peachyspalace]

My worst interview happened at this animal rescue center as a student assistant. I just completed a summer at a museum with almost the exact same job description and duties so I thought I would be qualified. When I arrived the lady had her office set up very strangely. It was very small and cramped and when you opened the door you would almost hit the front of her desk. So I had to sit in a chair on the side of her desk. When she talked to me she either stared at her paper or the wall in front of her. I don't think she made eye contact with me once, it was the strangest thing. When I offered to move my chair she just told me to stay there like loll okay. If that wasn't the worst of it, she didn't want to hear anything about my previous experience at my last job, and was very cold the entire time. Whenever I tried bringing up examples of doing those tasks she would just say "okay, do you have any experience either than that job?" (keep in mind this was a position that high schoolers and early college students took so why would that be the case). Anyways, got a much better job with higher pay the next week for the summer so glad that bullet was dodged!

[spwexler]

Was brushing up on my interview skills this week as I had a 2nd and 3rd interview. Thanks to you I was prepared for the why do you want to work here question. I also used one of your questions, which was asking the interviewer what they love most about working for that company. Thanks for your videos and your insight.

[breebee]

I had an interview where the interviewer read paragraph long questions so fast like he was speed reading, I asked him was he short on time or already knew who he was going to hire.

[daveg]

Hiring manager that I was supposed to meet with didn't show, they shuffled me into their breakroom and told me to get coffee. I waited awkwardly for 15 minutes before another manager showed up. He told me that he'd also be my manager, and that he was a micromanager. Then he took me to lunch in his leased Lexus sports car and told me his wife was hot. I was so uncomfortable I almost left. All I wanted to do was go home, but I stayed and answered their questions to be polite. Wish I'd just left.

[animalkingdom]

One interviewer asked me you are a Chemist why do you want this call center job, I replied ‘because a Chemist knows everything and everything is Chemistry’. I got the job

[jenniferstroschine]

Thank you for inside scoop this answers a lot of questions😁🤔

[cmonkey]

Substitute "job interview" with "coffee date from someone you met on an internet dating site" and the stories would be very similar.

[kma]

I had a medical school interview where while I was waiting, I overheard (from some distance and through a closed door), my interviewer screaming at the top of her lungs at her research assistant who apparently had run into some clinical issue with her research. I got to listen to a full-on screeching, expletive-laced tirade directed at a certain surgeon who had ... well, the details don't matter... for a good few minutes. The phone was slammed, she took time to cool down, opened the door all smiles and called me in. The first 15 minutes of the interview were pretty standard. She was on auto-pilot and I was giving pretty standard answers. One practices for such things. At some point, she asked if any of my family had matriculated to the university in the past. Some universities ask, and it turns out my father had been a graduate, so I told her so and which year and that because he had had a good experience, I was hopeful I might as well. For some reason, that touched a nerve. She felt I was entitled or something and laid into me, and accused me of lying on my CV. I had not. Such things are easy to verify and quick guarantees of rejection. The best part was that after this, I still had another 2 hours with student interviewers and a facility tour to endure knowing full well, this was over and done with.

Ultimately, I dodged a bullet avoiding having to go to a toxic place that tolerated people like her, but rejection especially at school that was supposed to have been a "safety" school was not fun.

[MDAC]

I had a similar job experience as the first one you described, only it turned into the interviewer yelling at me for being unqualified while reading the cv for the first time.

[ucheau]

You have made the sad occasion funny. Well done, love it.

[Paolo]

If an Interviewer challenges your qualifications, you have to politely but firmly dispute that claim. Sometimes an Interviewer is just questioning your qualifications to see how you respond. And sometimes they really think that way. If the Interviewer really does think you re not qualified, you aren't going to get the job anyways. (This is assuming the Interviewer has influence on the actual hiring decision).