Not one but two failed interviews
So last year I was working for Barclays in one of their corporate offices, it was a 3 month temp to perm position and when the time came to interview for the role I was asked if I wanted to try for the permanent placement. I did so and didn't get the job. The feedback was that I wasn't corporate enough even though I had been doing the job for 3 months efficiently and there wasn't much more to the role that I wasn't already doing.
I put it down to the office manager not liking me as everyone hated her and the other members of staff liked me and as she had the overall power to give me the job, I didn't get it.
The second interview was at Lime Pictures, it was for an admin job booking in contractors to work on the tv programmes. I had to sit a 20 minute assessment that my agency didn't know about and 15 of that was taken up with the 10 pages of notes that I had to read through so I didn't actually get to finish the assessment, I spent the next 40 minutes answering all the formal questions.
The outcome? They decided that I was too corporate for the job. That I can understand, I mean I did turn up to the interview in a suit, who does that anymore?
The weirdest feedback was that they determined that I would have difficulty making friendships, I don't know how they figured that out as they didn't ask me anything about that. What gets me is that I coach over 60 women in roller derby each week and I also work in promotion so I have to approach many different types of people.
As it turned out, no one who went to the interview got the job for some obscure reason or other so the agency told me that they were after a person who didn't exist.

TL:DR I wasn't corporate enough to do a job permanently that I had done for 3 months and too corporate to work at a tv studios.
(Soaps Roller derbying your way since, Tue 26 Nov 2013, 10:20, 6 replies)

Are you sure that it wasn't your crippling undiagnosed logorrhoea that did for you?

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 26 Nov 2013, 10:29, closed)

no, I have a cream from the doctors for that. He said if I don't rub the lotion on the skin, I get the hose again.
(Soaps Roller derbying your way since, Tue 26 Nov 2013, 10:34, closed)

I think you would do better
if you were a little less cavalier about picking your nose and your ass with the same finger.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Tue 26 Nov 2013, 19:32, closed)

everyone has their flaws I guess. At least I wipe my finger on some tissue inbetween picking ass and face.
(Soaps Roller derbying your way since, Wed 27 Nov 2013, 13:52, closed)

Why did you begin your anecdote with the word 'So'......
...when the question asked did not begin with 'Why..?'
(Colonel Blink is now officially a pretentious prick, Tue 26 Nov 2013, 20:42, closed)

Your first experience
I've just had that too. Been doing a 'senior' role for the best part of five years, just without the title and salary.
The job was made formal and I didn't get it because I wasn't deemed to 'fit the profile' they were looking for.
The guy they appointed knows dick all about the job in hand, but has the gift of the gab, is ambitious (ie will do anything to make himself look good) and sucks corporate cock with the best of them.

In the interview we had to give a presentation on management style, I gave the wankiest corporate speak (all genuinely culled from business websites) imaginable, then translated it all back into plain english.
I was told in my feedback they felt I was (exact words) "taking the piss out of us"
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 27 Nov 2013, 9:16, closed)