I was once interviewing a lady who said that her weakness was that old people creeped her out! Then we had the guy who was primarily concerned that the job wouldn’t interfere with his golf playing and would like it if he could have Wednesday’s off to golf. A lady interviewee brought in a box of Krispy Kremes once - she didn’t get the job, although I don’t think the donuts had anything to do with it - I was happy about it! Then there was the lady who was so full of herself - we asked her how her colleagues would describe her and she said “spectacular”. And the poor lady who we asked which databases she had used and after thinking for a while, she said, “Microsoft Outlook”. I don’t even do that many interviews, but we’ve had so many strange ones!!
I include a few misspellings, and one or two technical mistakes/impossibilities.
I want to see if they're so petty they're willing to point out spelling mistakes to their potential boss, and if they have enough knowledge/courage to challenge the technical mistakes. It's a way to measure their judgment.
All of my current reports responded appropriately. You'd be surprised how many applicants bust my stones over the spelling errors, but don't recognize or ignore the technical errors.