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<h2>Job interviews, especially if there are multiple rounds, can be tedious sweaty-palmed nightmares of &quot;what are your biggest weaknesses&quot; and &quot;where do you see yourself in five years?&quot;</h2><p>So, when a<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0g6s6/what_happened_during_an_interview_that/"> Reddit</a> user asked, &quot;What happened during an interview that immediately made you realize you wouldn&rsquo;t take the job no matter how much they offered you?&quot; people with horror stories from the job search were ready to share.</p><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was told the person I would be supporting as an Executive Assistant was on his third wife, he has 6 kids and that I should include the wife in certain decisions so that she doesn&#39;t feel insecure (being the 3rd wife and all). Ain&#39;t nobody got time for 3rd wife insecurity drama - SS0J16</p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m a senior level programmer and the company was only offering two weeks vacation, non-negotiable. Lol....hell no. -BamaBachFan</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>Wasn&#39;t the interview per se, but I caught a glimpse of a whiteboard in HR that had a bullet point list that seemed to be things to talk about to convince people to join the company, and one of the items was, &quot;Not a cult.&quot; - poe_todd</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>It was a low paying retail job, but I&rsquo;ve been interviewed at the same time as someone else. The issue I had with this is that it pits two people against each other and it becomes incredibly awkward. I was interviewing against a woman who had lost her job and was talking about supporting her kids.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I felt like I had to make a stronger case saying that I didn&rsquo;t know how I&rsquo;d afford college without the job. If an interviewer doesn&rsquo;t have time for 2 separate interviews then just walk out because things will only get worse. - Future_Classic_</p> </blockquote><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>It wasn&#39;t an interview but a &quot;taster session&quot; where I had to work there for 3 hours then make my decision. A lot of the hardware didn&#39;t work, the guy training me was away and had to train me over a video call so whenever anything went wrong I was f*cked and he would loudly sigh every time I needed something explaining. Because how dare someone need something explained to them on their first job - TheNameless00</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>Back in 2008, I saw a posting on Craigslist for a writing job. During the interview, it became clear to me that the actual job was to create and maintain hundreds of fake email accounts and post fake reviews for products I never used. I hadn&rsquo;t heard of this concept before (hey it was 2008), so I just chuckled at one point and blurted out, &ldquo;Isn&rsquo;t that illegal though?&rdquo; Thankfully I never heard back from them. - karaokechameleon</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>I interviewed at a &quot;no excuses&quot; charter school. They gave a scenario where a student comes in to class and doesn&#39;t have his homework done. He says it&#39;s because he spent the previous night in the ER because his brother was shot. School policy is that unfinished homework is a mandatory detention. I could not, in good conscience, answer that question the way they wanted. - fxcassell</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>I went to interview for an entry level marketing position in the film industry. Two hours in the boss slipped in that I wouldn&#39;t be paid for the first few months while they trained me. It was a full time job. He also wanted me to start immediately that day using my personal laptop. I made up an excuse and left shortly after. - thecylonstrikesback</p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;and what is the starting wage for this job?&quot;</p> <p>&quot;Does it matter?&quot;</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>BYE - Punkstarbabe</p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>Stupid interview games. The d*ckheads put me at a low table with a low chair, placed water in a carafe with an empty glass - all just out of reach so that I&#39;d have to stand and reach for it, and then interviewed me as a panel of six employees sitting at a tall table with tall chairs. The questions were all more about my character then my skills. The whole thing was so obviously staged to make me feel uncomfortable.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>An interview is a conversation, not an interrogation. Treat it like an interrogation, and I&#39;m f*cking out. It&#39;s a clear sign of a toxic workplace - I&#39;ve yet to see an exception to this rule. - fargmania</p> </blockquote><h2>Most people don&#39;t particularly love the interview process, including the person doing the interviewing...</h2><p>Even when it&#39;s a dream job and role you&#39;re over-the-moon excited about, the dread of the interview lingers. While most the time it&#39;s about 20 minutes of standard questions, small talk, and coffee, there are some interview questions that are blaring, blazing, red flags of doom.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You know all the blizzard stuff makes me happy I turned down a job a long time ago because it was a huge red flag for the lead of the team to call me &quot;Such a good girl&quot; in the interview.</p>&mdash; Taylor Fischer (@TFischConcept) <a href="https://twitter.com/TFischConcept/status/1418270923334037508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">had a job interview <br><br>employer: you seem like a very nice person, amanda<br><br>me: thank you!<br><br>employer: that wasn’t a compliment. <br><br>🙃 i’m gonna take that as a red flag and run</p>&mdash; rainey 🦄🌈 (@raineyrainbows) <a href="https://twitter.com/raineyrainbows/status/1370057896675831811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I definitely see it as a red flag when you’re going in for a job interview and it goes from an “interview” to them tryna show you the job and slick prep you for the position. That eagerness isn’t always for a positive reason and I be very wary of it all.</p>&mdash; Cindy Noir✨ (@thecindynoir) <a href="https://twitter.com/thecindynoir/status/1325846658769416196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Running out of the office the second the interviewer says the staff is &quot;a family&quot; or that they all &quot;live for the hustle&quot; might not be the most professional move, but it&#39;s probably necessary to protect yourself. If everyone is bragging about how they never use their vacation days and they always stay late, you&#39;re about to say hello to a new job and bye to your entire personal life and well-being. No, sir, I don&#39;t have any questions for you and I will not be sending a follow-up email!</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I definitely see it as a red flag when you’re going in for a job interview and it goes from an “interview” to them tryna show you the job and slick prep you for the position. That eagerness isn’t always for a positive reason and I be very wary of it all.</p>&mdash; Cindy Noir✨ (@thecindynoir) <a href="https://twitter.com/thecindynoir/status/1325846658769416196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2> </h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If a job has more than 2 rounds of interviews that’s already a red flag in most cases tbh</p>&mdash; Halfway to 50 (@NahImNotDecent) <a href="https://twitter.com/NahImNotDecent/status/1440800426597617690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><h2> </h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">My worst interview experience so far was when I was told, &quot;You used tutorials to learn.&quot; Knew that I won&#39;t get the job eventually.<br><br>Never felt so bad for being self-taught...😞☹️</p>&mdash; John ✨ (@AdemoyeJohn) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdemoyeJohn/status/1494469210382036999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2> </h2><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>Asked me if I would be willing to take a three month deferment while under a &quot;Probationary&quot; period. If after 3 months, they didn&#39;t like me, they&#39;d let me go and give me a check for $0.10 on the dollar for every dollar/hr worked. If they kept me, I&#39;d get a check for all my hours, plus a bonus of $500 for office supplies, but I could only buy out of their selected catalogue. I almost laughed in her face. - FreeSpeechMatter1776</p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>They called me back for a&hellip; 5th interview&hellip; after that I had enough and told them it was getting a bit much and I&rsquo;ll take a pass. - kyle71473</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>Back when I was unemployed long term, I was applying for roles anywhere I could find really. Got an interview for a retail position, not great but better than nothing. First interview is a group one, I get through that fine. Second interview is with the manager of the store. He spends like 10 minutes telling me how sh*t my resume is. - godzillastailor</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>When she started explaining that my &#39;role&#39; in handling payments would involve depositing &#39;client payments&#39; into my own personal account before transferring it to &#39;the company&#39;. - as*tyrant</p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>I tried getting a job as a telemarketer once. The interviewer had me go into another room and call her, and she would pretend to be a person I&#39;m trying to get money from. I started into the scrip, and she said, &quot;Oh, but I&#39;m just a poor college student with no money!&quot;</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Even though I knew she was just pretending, I still felt terrible. I knew that I could never do that work in real life. I told her that my coming there was a bad idea and I had to leave. - CapnFang</p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>Three of four people who interviewed me spent the entire time talking about how bad the company was and why I really don&#39;t want the job. The fourth was the CEO. His story was different. I didn&#39;t take the job. - IAmDotorg</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2> </h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

16 people share the moment in an interview when they realized they didn't want the job.

Job interviews, especially if there are multiple rounds, can be tedious sweaty-palmed nightmares of &quot;what are your biggest weaknesses&quot; and &quot;where do you see yourself in five years?&quot;So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;What happened during an interview that immediately made you realize you wouldn&rsquo;t take the job no matter how much they offered you?&quot; people with horror stories from the job search were ready to share.1. I was told the person I would be supporting as an Executive Assistant was on his third wife, he has 6 kids and that I should include the wife in certain decisions so that she doesn&#39;t feel insecure (being the 3rd wife and all). Ain&#39;t nobody got time for 3rd wife insecurity drama - SS0J16 2. I&#39;m a senior level programmer and the company was only offering two weeks vacation, non-negotiable. Lol....hell no. -BamaBachFan 3. Wasn&#39;t the interview per se, but I caught a glimpse of a whiteboard in HR that had a bullet point list that seemed to be things to talk about to convince people to join the company, and one of the items was, &quot;Not a cult.&quot; - poe_todd 4. It was a low paying retail job, but I&rsquo;ve been interviewed at the same time as someone else. The issue I had with this is that it pits two people against each other and it becomes incredibly awkward. I was interviewing against a woman who had lost her job and was talking about supporting her kids.   I felt like I had to make a stronger case saying that I didn&rsquo;t know how I&rsquo;d afford college without the job. If an interviewer doesn&rsquo;t have time for 2 separate interviews then just walk out because things will only get worse. - Future_Classic_ 5. It wasn&#39;t an interview but a &quot;taster session&quot; where I had to work there for 3 hours then make my decision. A lot of the hardware didn&#39;t work, the guy training me was away and had to train me over a video call so whenever anything went wrong I was f*cked and he would loudly sigh every time I needed something explaining. Because how dare someone need something explained to them on their first job - TheNameless00 6. Back in 2008, I saw a posting on Craigslist for a writing job. During the interview, it became clear to me that the actual job was to create and maintain hundreds of fake email accounts and post fake reviews for products I never used. I hadn&rsquo;t heard of this concept before (hey it was 2008), so I just chuckled at one point and blurted out, &ldquo;Isn&rsquo;t that illegal though?&rdquo; Thankfully I never heard back from them. - karaokechameleon 7. I interviewed at a &quot;no excuses&quot; charter school. They gave a scenario where a student comes in to class and doesn&#39;t have his homework done. He says it&#39;s because he spent the previous night in the ER because his brother was shot. School policy is that unfinished homework is a mandatory detention. I could not, in good conscience, answer that question the way they wanted. - fxcassell 8. I went to interview for an entry level marketing position in the film industry. Two hours in the boss slipped in that I wouldn&#39;t be paid for the first few months while they trained me. It was a full time job. He also wanted me to start immediately that day using my personal laptop. I made up an excuse and left shortly after. - thecylonstrikesback 9. &quot;and what is the starting wage for this job?&quot; &quot;Does it matter?&quot;   BYE - Punkstarbabe 10. Stupid interview games. The d*ckheads put me at a low table with a low chair, placed water in a carafe with an empty glass - all just out of reach so that I&#39;d have to stand and reach for it, and then interviewed me as a panel of six employees sitting at a tall table with tall chairs. The questions were all more about my character then my skills. The whole thing was so obviously staged to make me feel uncomfortable.   An interview is a conversation, not an interrogation. Treat it like an interrogation, and I&#39;m f*cking out. It&#39;s a clear sign of a toxic workplace - I&#39;ve yet to see an exception to this rule. - fargmania Most people don&#39;t particularly love the interview process, including the person doing the interviewing...Even when it&#39;s a dream job and role you&#39;re over-the-moon excited about, the dread of the interview lingers. While most the time it&#39;s about 20 minutes of standard questions, small talk, and coffee, there are some interview questions that are blaring, blazing, red flags of doom.You know all the blizzard stuff makes me happy I turned down a job a long time ago because it was a huge red flag for the lead of the team to call me &quot;Such a good girl&quot; in the interview.&mdash; Taylor Fischer (@TFischConcept) July 22, 2021 had a job interview employer: you seem like a very nice person, amandame: thank you!employer: that wasn’t a compliment. 🙃 i’m gonna take that as a red flag and run&mdash; rainey 🦄🌈 (@raineyrainbows) March 11, 2021 I definitely see it as a red flag when you’re going in for a job interview and it goes from an “interview” to them tryna show you the job and slick prep you for the position. That eagerness isn’t always for a positive reason and I be very wary of it all.&mdash; Cindy Noir✨ (@thecindynoir) November 9, 2020 Running out of the office the second the interviewer says the staff is &quot;a family&quot; or that they all &quot;live for the hustle&quot; might not be the most professional move, but it&#39;s probably necessary to protect yourself. If everyone is bragging about how they never use their vacation days and they always stay late, you&#39;re about to say hello to a new job and bye to your entire personal life and well-being. No, sir, I don&#39;t have any questions for you and I will not be sending a follow-up email!I definitely see it as a red flag when you’re going in for a job interview and it goes from an “interview” to them tryna show you the job and slick prep you for the position. That eagerness isn’t always for a positive reason and I be very wary of it all.&mdash; Cindy Noir✨ (@thecindynoir) November 9, 2020  If a job has more than 2 rounds of interviews that’s already a red flag in most cases tbh&mdash; Halfway to 50 (@NahImNotDecent) September 22, 2021  My worst interview experience so far was when I was told, &quot;You used tutorials to learn.&quot; Knew that I won&#39;t get the job eventually.Never felt so bad for being self-taught...😞☹️&mdash; John ✨ (@AdemoyeJohn) February 18, 2022  11. Asked me if I would be willing to take a three month deferment while under a &quot;Probationary&quot; period. If after 3 months, they didn&#39;t like me, they&#39;d let me go and give me a check for $0.10 on the dollar for every dollar/hr worked. If they kept me, I&#39;d get a check for all my hours, plus a bonus of $500 for office supplies, but I could only buy out of their selected catalogue. I almost laughed in her face. - FreeSpeechMatter1776 12. They called me back for a&hellip; 5th interview&hellip; after that I had enough and told them it was getting a bit much and I&rsquo;ll take a pass. - kyle71473 13. Back when I was unemployed long term, I was applying for roles anywhere I could find really. Got an interview for a retail position, not great but better than nothing. First interview is a group one, I get through that fine. Second interview is with the manager of the store. He spends like 10 minutes telling me how sh*t my resume is. - godzillastailor 14. When she started explaining that my &#39;role&#39; in handling payments would involve depositing &#39;client payments&#39; into my own personal account before transferring it to &#39;the company&#39;. - as*tyrant 15. I tried getting a job as a telemarketer once. The interviewer had me go into another room and call her, and she would pretend to be a person I&#39;m trying to get money from. I started into the scrip, and she said, &quot;Oh, but I&#39;m just a poor college student with no money!&quot;   Even though I knew she was just pretending, I still felt terrible. I knew that I could never do that work in real life. I told her that my coming there was a bad idea and I had to leave. - CapnFang 16. Three of four people who interviewed me spent the entire time talking about how bad the company was and why I really don&#39;t want the job. The fourth was the CEO. His story was different. I didn&#39;t take the job. - IAmDotorg  

Job interviews, especially if there are multiple rounds, can be tedious sweaty-palmed nightmares of &quot;what are your biggest weaknesses&quot; and &quot;where do you see yourself in five years?&quot;  So, when a Reddit user asked,...