job interview

28-year-old worker learns coworker, with whom she privately vented frustrations, secretly recorded their conversations for over a year—HR blindsides her, firing her and promoting him—When is private venting ok and when is it a workplace issue?

Brad Dickson

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Employer Cuts Overachieving Employee’s Pay in Half When They Switch Them From Flat Rate to Hourly Pay— I Work Fast and Efficient and Can Get Most Jobs Finished in Half to 3/4 of the Allotted Time

Brad Dickson

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Company ignores candidate for 4 weeks after the final interview, then acts offended when they accept a better offer elsewhere: 'You were the ones who put me in a difficult position'

Cata Holmes

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Cabin crew employee encourages people to ask him all their questions about the interview process and more: ‘I have flown for a major international airline for over two decades.’

María Cetra

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Employee accepts a job with the possibility of growth, only to discover his boss was gatekeeping him and modifying his job so he wasn’t considered for it and she could get it instead: ‘I lasted about four months and then left.’

María Cetra

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Employee gets laid off after 10 years, so he starts applying to thousands of jobs, even finishing the interview process in one with flying colors: 'But then I got the email today that they decided to go in a different direction.'

María Cetra

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Job applicant attends Zoom interview, realizes interviewers are sharing a screen with messages about them: 'The worst interview of my life so far'

Ally Perry

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Applicant Automatically Rejects Every One-Way AI Video Interview They Are Offered, Calls It a Game Changer in Job Searching

Bar Mor Hazut

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Unemployed person introduces themselves personally to hiring manager, causing the recruiter to say that she didn't care whether the candidate came in person or just sent their CV: 'I knew she meant me.'

María Cetra

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Job applicant deleted company website from Wikipedia after CEO showed his true colors during interview: ‘He kept me waiting an hour, hadn't read my resume, tried to get personal info’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘I felt my stomach drop’: Candidate believes she lost job opportunity after discovering the interviewer is ‘good friends' with her last boss, who fired her from the job

Bar Mor Hazut

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Company Discovers Employee is Interviewing With Competitor, Tells Competitor to Reject Him, and They Oblige, Even Though They Were Going to Offer Him The Job

Emmy Pratt

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Out of work employee has an interview for a position in his dream job, but encounters several red flags in the interviewing team and feels really bad about the whole thing: 'The interview went a bit weird'.

María Cetra

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A desperate out-of-work employee opens up about the dehumanization of the interview process till he actually got a job: 'Be human, trust in yourself, and good things will come.'

María Cetra

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Why Employees Won't Recommend People For Jobs in Their Companies

Ally Perry

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Programmer struggling through months of failed interviews walks into technical interview convinced he's about to embarrass himself, leaves with a job offer and higher salary: 'I start on Monday'

Cata Holmes

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