Interviewed with the CIA
Didn't get in, not because the interview went badly, but because you had to pass their polygraph test, and since they trusted very, very few people to administer their test, the wait extended several years. Who has the time to wait for something like that, unless you're on some kind of mission? It's the strangest bottleneck. Polygraph examinations are notoriously unreliable, so it's basically holding hostage a huge organization to the whims of a few witch doctors.
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 4:15, 7 replies)

Fuck's sake!
They might as well include horoscopes in the selection process.
Wankers.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 5:01, closed)

What sort of background checks did they do?
That you know of.

I interviewed a couple of years ago for ASIS for an entry level ICT position. I got to shortlist stage and then things went, well - quiet.

It was a bit scary who they had got hold of to talk to about me.

Hope they're not reading this now.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 6:52, closed)

Rolf Harris?

(immadme, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 10:04, closed)

Quiet
You!
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 10:12, closed)

There was one background check I recall
Naturally, the CIA asked me about drug use. Counting on fingers and toes, I estimated that I had smoked pot 24 times, ever. This worried them. Once, I received a telephone call at 6 a.m. The anonymous gruff caller demanded: "How many times have you ever smoked pot?" "Twenty-four!" I cheerily replied, and the fellow abruptly hung up.
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 19:02, closed)