Just had an interview
First quesiton: Where do you see yourself in 10 years
Second question: Which three things do you think impressed me the least about your application
Third to a thousands questions: SQL query questions, even though the job's not technical. It's in sales, cold calling basically, only they didn't mention that in the ad, nor till half way through the interview.
Shower of bastards
(sirolimus, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 16:55, 6 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I feel your pain
I too have come from an interview this pm.

I decided sod it, time to change tack. Enough of failing to get IT Project Manager jobs, let's think out-of-the-box.

The "Sales and Marketing" opportunity turns out to be an MLM-recruitment for charity chuggers.

So I don't think I'll be doing that...yet.

Good luck with future opportunities.
( I_Was_Mordred, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 17:02, Reply)

In ten years

I will be up to my nuts in the guts of your daughter.


Was the reply he was looking for.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 17:05, Reply)

Dude, that's terrible
Why the fuck would they ask stuff like that? It doesn't make sense.

My first interview was a bit like that.

21 years old, green as cabbage, absolutely bricking myself when some chap phones me about my application.

"It's not an interview" he tells me

5 mins later he's asking me his best HR questions, which I stuttered over.

Then moves on to "So, coldfusion...ever used it? What would you do the first time you use it?"

"Err, leaf through the manuals and play around with it", which I thought a perfectly good, if poorly delivered answer. He didn't sound convinced.

Then moves on to "Where do you see yourself in 5 years time?"

Whilst I'm working out what the fuck to say, in between thinking "What the fuck. This isn't an interview. He told me it's not an interview." he then suddenly tells me "Oh, hang on, there's someone on the other line, I'll have to call you back".

He never did.

Best job I never got. Web design place in Arundel. I hope they've gone bust. Cold Fusion, ffs.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 17:38, Reply)

Enquiring minds want to know
what you answered for the second question? That's a bitch of a question, right there.
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 17:41, Reply)

Which three things do you think impressed me the least about your application
I do hope you told them that you weren't going to answer that.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 19:20, Reply)

yeah, didn't answer
said it was up to them and it can't have been that bad or they wouldn't call me in. More like they can't get anyone to do the job and just get any muppet who applies in.

"This is not cold calling. This is offering them a product which is free" and "This is not sales, this is a product they need" etc.
(sirolimus, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 20:01, Reply)