Bad Interview Moments Forum

[Anonymous User]

" we send all of our summer associates abroad"
"*chuckle*..that's nice of you, what's her name?"
Interviewer cracks up, thought I crushed it

No cb

that's actually a super sexist comment.

[chuckbass]

" we send all of our summer associates abroad"
"*chuckle*..that's nice of you, what's her name?"
Interviewer cracks up, thought I crushed it

No cb

10/10

[beepboopbeep]

" we send all of our summer associates abroad"
"*chuckle*..that's nice of you, what's her name?"
Interviewer cracks up, thought I crushed it

No cb

Fricking impressive on the spot, I can only come up with this shit hours later in the shower

[UnamSanctam]

" we send all of our summer associates abroad"
"*chuckle*..that's nice of you, what's her name?"
Interviewer cracks up, thought I crushed it

No cb

that's actually a super sexist comment.

Live a little, Anon.

[El Pollito]

i mean absolutely retarded thing to say, but funny

[dixiecupdrinking]

My favorite part was "thought I crushed it."

[Anonymous User]

" we send all of our summer associates abroad"
"*chuckle*..that's nice of you, what's her name?"
Interviewer cracks up, thought I crushed it

No cb

Fricking impressive on the spot, I can only come up with this shit hours later in the shower

There's something about showering that makes me realize all the fuckups I made on interviews I thought I had done well in.

Today, for this one for a big lit firm, I was talking about the legality of marijuana (for a summer job) and the interviewer asked about whether it was limited by federal interstate commerce. I completely blanked out and said that I didn't think that came up. I'm pretty sure they were testing to see if I could remember Raich on the spot. In another one for a big V10's satellite, I emphasized my knowledge of the firm by talking about its centralized assignment system only to realize now that it probably came off as being less excited about working in the secondary market.

I bet these are the subtle things that explain why interviews people thought were "good conversations" end up as dings.

[beepboopbeep]

Today, for this one for a big lit firm, I was talking about the legality of marijuana (for a summer job) and the interviewer asked about whether it was limited by federal interstate commerce. I completely blanked out and said that I didn't think that came up. I'm pretty sure they were testing to see if I could remember Raich on the spot.

That's probably reading things too neurotically. It's true that it's an obvious/important point but IMO that just sounds like someone wanting to have a conversation about the argument rather than like a pop quiz or some shit. But obviously depends how it was asked.

[El Pollito]

lol who the fuck asks about the commerce clause

[Anonymous User]

Not mine but one of my classmates went in for a screen. First thing the interviewer said to him was, "Where'd you get that tie? At a homeless shelter?" Classmate must have felt so bad and left early. I know this cuz I was right after him and waited outside 10 mins before mine. Turns out the said classmate wasn't even in the room by the time I went in...and our interviews were back to back. The interviewer was quite rude, abrasive, somewhat unprofessional, and cursed a lot.

[UnamSanctam]

i mean absolutely retarded thing to say, but funny

OFS

[gulc1924]

" we send all of our summer associates abroad"
"*chuckle*..that's nice of you, what's her name?"
Interviewer cracks up, thought I crushed it

No cb

I'm a woman and I think this is pretty hilarious

[baal hadad]

I'm glad the poster said it Bc I thought it was funny

[gulc1924]

lol who the fuck asks about the commerce clause

interviewer has no chill

[gulc1924]

After I made this comment I was SURE there would be no callback..

I come into the room and interviewer is already sitting down. We chat about rowing (I rowed in college) and she mentions she was a coxswain. Coxswains are usually pretty short. We both stand up as the interview comes to and end, and I say "Wow! You are pretty short!" ....
I wanted to slap myself as soon as I said it.
Luckily she was cool about it and we both kind of laughed about our differing heights.

GOT A CALLBACK.

[dixiecupdrinking]

Not mine but one of my classmates went in for a screen. First thing the interviewer said to him was, "Where'd you get that tie? At a homeless shelter?" Classmate must have felt so bad and left early. I know this cuz I was right after him and waited outside 10 mins before mine. Turns out the said classmate wasn't even in the room by the time I went in...and our interviews were back to back. The interviewer was quite rude, abrasive, somewhat unprofessional, and cursed a lot.

This is hilarious.

[DJ JD]

" we send all of our summer associates abroad"
"*chuckle*..that's nice of you, what's her name?"
Interviewer cracks up, thought I crushed it

No cb

Fricking impressive on the spot, I can only come up with this shit hours later in the shower

There's something about showering that makes me realize all the fuckups I made on interviews I thought I had done well in.

Today, for this one for a big lit firm, I was talking about the legality of marijuana (for a summer job) and the interviewer asked about whether it was limited by federal interstate commerce. I completely blanked out and said that I didn't think that came up. I'm pretty sure they were testing to see if I could remember Raich on the spot. In another one for a big V10's satellite, I emphasized my knowledge of the firm by talking about its centralized assignment system only to realize now that it probably came off as being less excited about working in the secondary market.

I bet these are the subtle things that explain why interviews people thought were "good conversations" end up as dings.

I'll be honest with you, at least on the first example... I'm pretty sure I would never want to work for someone who asks about the Commerce clause during an interview.

They did you a favor by dinging you.

[baal hadad]

After I made this comment I was SURE there would be no callback..

I come into the room and interviewer is already sitting down. We chat about rowing (I rowed in college) and she mentions she was a coxswain. Coxswains are usually pretty short. We both stand up as the interview comes to and end, and I say "Wow! You are pretty short!" ....
I wanted to slap myself as soon as I said it.
Luckily she was cool about it and we both kind of laughed about our differing heights.

GOT A CALLBACK.

That's not that bad that's pretty cool

[Anonymous User]

Why you are thinking about seeking a job in our market instead of where your school is at?

--started talking shit about my school and the city, and even used the word "city girl". I visibly saw the change of color on the interviewer's face. I did not know that city girl might mean ghetto girl in certain places.
that was my first interview. then I started to realize interviews are not the places for me to make friends or play cute, its the place where people are expecting stardardized answers and if you fall below that criteria, that will make their crossing you out easier than others.

[El Pollito]

Why you are thinking about seeking a job in our market instead of where your school is at?

--started talking shit about my school and the city, and even used the word "city girl". I visibly saw the change of color on the interviewer's face. I did not know that city girl might mean ghetto girl in certain places.
that was my first interview. then I started to realize interviews are not the places for me to make friends or play cute, its the place where people are expecting stardardized answers and if you fall below that criteria, that will make their crossing you out easier than others.

k-jd?

[Anonymous User]

Friend of mine was interviewing at a V10 and talking about his summer job at a boutique and mentioned a well known client he had worked with, interviewer immediately goes "so why's he working with a crummy little firm like that?"

[Anonymous User]

Is Jones Day asking people their LSAT scores again?

haha yes, they asked me

[FluffMonster]

Worst interview I've had turned into a callback ironically enough. There were so many things that I thought went wrong. At one point, the interviewer asked me my favorite contracts concept. I totally blanked and made some dumb general statement about how contracts are such a huge component of everyday life and rambled about implied contracts in products... the interviewer was like "That's torts, but we'll move on." I tried to get a joke in at one point to lighten the mood and it did NOT land well. He responded with "I'm not going to argue with you" and then just moved on to the next question.

[baal hadad]

Worst interview I've had turned into a callback ironically enough. There were so many things that I thought went wrong. At one point, the interviewer asked me my favorite contracts concept. I totally blanked and made some dumb general statement about how contracts are such a huge component of everyday life and rambled about implied contracts in products... the interviewer was like "That's torts, but we'll move on." I tried to get a joke in at one point to lighten the mood and it did NOT land well. He responded with "I'm not going to argue with you" and then just moved on to the next question.

I'm going to need to know what the concept was

[Anonymous User]

Interviewer talked the whole time. One of the few times I got a word in, I stupidly mentioned something about partners making a lot of money. Got a CB.