Posted on 02/09/2022 1:39:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
Without setting foot inside an office building, Chaylene Martinez unwittingly put her foot in her mouth by criticizing her would-be employer during a one-take, pre-recorded video interview.
“The question is … the stupidest, cheesiest question I’ve ever read in my life,” Martinez says in now-viral footage of her disastrous digital application to SkyWest Airlines. In the clip, which has amassed over 6.9 million views, the troubled TikToker is seen complaining about SkyWest’s interview questions to an unnamed male friend on the phone. However, she accidentally begins recording herself on the company’s video application platform while she’s bad-mouthing the brand.
“’What is your impression of SkyWest’s company culture, and how does that resonate with you?’” she mockingly reads aloud in part of the minute-and-seven-second “answer” she gives. “You have to record yourself [answering] it, and it’s so awkward.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“The moment I realized I was already recording...”
That reminds me of when my wife discovered the difference between “Reply” and “Reply All” in a family email, LOL.
Oh boy, I bet that’s a good one.
I’ve had several cases where the interviewer had such stupid, irrelevant questions I withdrew the application.
Well, what was the question? Something about what kind of tree she would be, or who was her favorite character in The Wizard of Oz?
One interviewer, showed up late, then gave me “homework” that done properly would take 40 - 80 hours of work. The only reason I didn’t reject it outright is that a friend who worked there referred me, but later we talked and agreed I wasn’t going to do it.
I interviewed a woman who was so nervous that she vomited on the desk! She took tissue and scraped the vomit into her purse. Then she cleaned her mouth, apologised, sat down, and wanted to continue the interview. Anybody with that much perseverance deserves a job!
Read the article
It clearly states the question
Wow!
I've done that on a technical interview. They asked me to, in Javascript, reverse an array of 100 numbers.
I did something super simple, like this (this is pseudocode):
SourceArray() = Int(100)
TargetArray() = Int(100)
For I = 1 to 100
{
TargetArray(101-i) = SourceArray(i)
}
So they all sat there in stunned silence.
I asked, "Good?"
They responded, "Nobody has ever come up with that solution before."
I asked, "How did most people do it?"
They responded, "Sorting. Bubblesort, Quicksort, all sorts of stuff like that."
I said, "None of you thought of this?"
They answered, "Nope."
I was polite enough to complete the interview, but upon leaving, I called the recruiter and withdrew. I will not work with morons.
Ping to the above ^^^
It led to some juicy discoveries, not to be aired publicly.
I'd hire her. She's not wrong.
I saw a pretty funny meme that I didn’t save the other day:
Interviewer: What’s you greatest weakness?
Interviewee: I would say my weakness is honesty.
Interviewer: I don’t think honesty is a weakness.
Interviewee: I don’t give a $%^$ what you think.
A friend of mine once went for a CPA interview where the HR person’s first question was, “If you were animal in the forest, which one would you be?”
He looked at her for a moment, and replied, “I can’t work in a company that thinks this type of question is a job qualifier.”
He got up and walked out.
She’s young and beautiful. She’ll snatch herself a rich husband. No worries.
It's scripted and professionally acted, but hilarious.
-PJ
I hear you. I’ve had some weird interview questions, but I didn’t react that way, because I needed a job, was unemployed at the time.
Whenever I get interviewed for a job and they ask what I think my weakness or faults are I say “I care too much” or “I work to hard sometimes.” Stuff like that. The last guy I said that to in an interview just grinned and mumbled that “at least this guy was prepared.” And I’m still working there.
and not even blond... /s
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