One wrong move, and boom your chances are in the gutter.
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been personally victimized by a job interview.
We’ve all been there.
Interviews are so nerve wracking, sometimes we make an awkward or embarrassing mistake without thinking.
And it’s impossible to forget those mistakes even years after the fact.
So, Reddit userr/OctupleWhopperasked, “What is thebiggest mistake you’ve madein a job interview?”
and here are the most awkward, funniest, and most interesting answers:
1.
He then told me it was his pet."
u/Vagitron69
2.
My nineteen year old stoner brain responds, ‘Cigarettes?
…No.'"
“I didn’t get that one.”
u/Eswercaj
3.
“That was a terrible, terrible decision.”
u/RaniPhoenix
4. u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman
5. u/Independent-Bike8810
6. u/Snowmist92
7.
“Accepting the job when they offered it right on the spot.
I didn’t know at the time, but that’s usually not a good sign.
They’re usually either desperate, or the job just sucks.”
u/Longjumping_Event_59
8.
“Not an interview, but in high school I got auto-rejected from a clothes retailer.
“Didn’t make that mistake again when I started applying to actually important jobs.”
u/Sean081799
9.
“I once interviewed to sell an allergy medication (pharma).
It was a launch of a twice-daily rival to getting allergy shots (which are monthly).
Interview was going well and I get asked ‘Do you have any questions for us?’
What is your current strategy or vision in successfully getting this into the market and well adopted?’
I wasn’t offered the job.
It’s okay, because after that answer I didn’t want it anyway.”
u/solofatty09
10.
“Went negative and bad-mouthed my current-at-the-time company.
Apparently that’s a huge no-no.
u/islandsimian
11.
“Interviewed at a bank.
It was going perfectly despite how nervous I was, and I was probably in with a great chance.
Then as a final question, the panel asked me, ‘Why should we hire you?”
And I word-vomit replied, ‘Because I probably won’t steal your money!'”
“I was not hired.”
u/Coconutqueen2402
12.
“‘Where do you see yourself in 5 years?’
‘Owning my own business, and not chained down to a dead end job.'”
“Still hired though!”
u/Trichopsych
13.
“Never heard back; I don’t wonder why.”
u/smokeyvic
14.
“My first job interview was a bullshit group interview.
So I completely blanked on the follow up question.
Pretty sure I came across as a raving lunatic.”
u/BundleOfNeurons
15.
“They eventually showed up, maybe 15 minutes late.
I was rambling a lot more than I needed to.
I didn’t get the job.”
u/ipissnapalm
16.
“Told them I was homeless.
I will never do that again.”
u/Commercial-Potato820
17.
“Noticing the job description they handed me on paper was $1/hr less than the one advertised online.
I asked about that, and shouldn’t have said anything.”
u/OctupleWhopper
18.
“Went for an interview at a local movie rental store.
Completely blanked when I was asked what movies I’ve watched recently.”
u/Dave220_1
19.
“Interviewed at United for flight attendant.
They asked something about what I thought would be the downside of job and I said another 9/11.
Immediately everyones face changed and I knew I fucked up.”
“But honestly, why was that bad?
I think they just wanted friendly/dumb/smile-and-nod types.”
u/NightSkyFreshAir
20.
The job was to work with disabled kids; I said I could improve my patience.”
“Not my timeliness, not my communication, not my team-building skills… patience.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.”
u/green_dinos
21.
“I was a teenager interviewing for a hot dog place.
I didn’t get the job. "
u/SeetheSeafortheSea
22.
“I asked if I should negotiate my salary.
To the guy interviewing me.
I said what I was thinking OUT LOUD.
His expression still burns in my brain to this day.”
u/drrmimi
23.
“When asked where I saw myself in 5 years, I said in their seat.
Don’t think he liked that.
Was not hired.”
u/modeless0
