‘It felt so…power-trippy?’: Job candidate asked to show recruiter around their room during Zoom interview

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

Jul 26, 2023 2:00 PM EDT

It seems that recruiters are asking way more of job candidates than they should these days. We're used to the common interview questions that might be difficult to answer: what's your weakness? What's a challenging leadership moment you've had? Why do you want to work? (just kidding… sort of). However, this recruiter took things just a bit too far when they asked a potential job candidate to move their camera around the whole room.

This story was posted to Reddit by u/nuestl , who froze at the question. What would you do in this situation? Some folks in the comments section suggested that OP should have asked how this was relevant to the position or if the recruiter would do the same thing in return. Interviews are supposed to be a two-way street, after all. The recruiter claimed that you can tell a lot about a person based on how organized their room is, and that may very well be true, but it has absolutely nothing to do with how organized they might be on the job and how skillful they are when it comes to work responsibilities. Plus, what if they see my stuffed animals?!

Keep scrolling below for the full story from OP's perspective. For more job-related mishaps, here is another story about a boss and a coworker who kept on bothering an employee's wife after the employee called out sick.