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20+ Job candidates who walked out of their interviews: 'I was not paid for... my wasted time'

Remy Millisky

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'I decided to test something': Qualified job candidate gets rejected, changes email and reapplies, ends up getting an offer

Ben Weiss

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Job interviewer tells job interviewee to shut up after he spent 5 minutes explaining his background and interrupted the interviewer 7 times: 'John, you really have to shut up and listen.'

Emmy Pratt

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15+ Job candidates who didn't impress their interviewers at all: 'He's brought his baby with him to an interview'

Remy Millisky

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Job candidate feels confident during job interview, despite CEO arriving 15 minutes late, until he realizes, through a phone notification, that the CEO was simultaneously reposting the same job offer online while on their call: 'Seriously, the audacity'

Emma Saven

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Candidate walks out of interview after interviewer is 1 hour late and opens with irrelevant personal questions about their family: 'If you can't answer, then I don't think we can continue'

Brad Dickson

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Hiring manager demands candidate send a “thank-you video” to the team after their interview, candidate refuses: ‘That’s one way to filter out people with dignity’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Job candidate calls out interviewer for asking 'the strangest' question: 'The entire positive vibe of the interview immediately evaporated'

Remy Millisky

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Job recruiter approaches prospective candidate to attend an interview and then ghosts them, accuses them of having an attitude when they try to follow up: 'I waited for a full 20 minutes, thinking maybe there was a technical issue or something'

Brad Dickson

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Man lies his way into a job he’s super unqualified for with a fabricated resume, progresses by obsessively self-teaching under pressure through "trial-by-fire", ends up becoming legitimate expert in his field: ‘Ashamed of how I got my foot in the door’

Emma Saven

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19-year-old woman shares experiencing a two-hour-long assessment for a first-round job interview for a minimum wage role, all applicants under 30 are asked to leave: 'The first task was to rank items by importance for surviving on a desert island'

Brad Dickson

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Update: Job candidate holds his ground after recruiter tries to cheat him out of the proper salary range: 'The number I gave [you] is my minimum'

Ben Weiss

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'I literally couldn't get a single word out': 22-year-old college graduate freezes during job interview, prompting hiring manager to walk out

Ben Weiss

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Accounting clerk gets denied a raise after assuming the work of 2-3 people, she quits, overwhelms her boss with tasks: 'My ex-boss quit [just] two weeks after I left'

Ben Weiss

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Boss demands 24/7 "urgent" access to employee, interrupting the employee's evenings and weekends with tasks that could have waited: 'If I’m not answering emails at 10PM, I’ll wake up to passive aggressive messages'

Brad Dickson

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UPDATE: Executive directors accidentally send job candidate private meeting video discussing her job interview: 'Do I just pretend I didn't see the recap?'

Remy Millisky

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