bad Vibes at interview

j.olsen

Went to an interview recently and I just got really bad vibes about the people and the company.I thought the interviewer was very arrogant.
Question is if you were lucky to land the job,would you accept/reject based on a "vibe".

Johnny Bitte

j.olsen wrote: »

Went to an interview recently and I just got really bad vibes about the people and the company.I thought the interviewer was very arrogant.
Question is if you were lucky to land the job,would you accept/reject based on a "vibe".

Same thing quite recently. One guy just kept interuppting me as I spoke another was just looking around the room.

They didnt offer me the job but I have to say if they did I dont think I would have been there long.

matrim

j.olsen wrote: »

Went to an interview recently and I just got really bad vibes about the people and the company.I thought the interviewer was very arrogant.
Question is if you were lucky to land the job,would you accept/reject based on a "vibe".

It depends on how desperate for a job \ money you are. I'm currently working so wouldn't change if I got a bad vibe and even when I was out of work (but with a good bit of savings) and looking there were places that I turned down because of the way the interview went and what the boss was saying

T-rev

If I had made my mind up about the place I would have sent them an email following the interview about wha tI thought.

grizzly

j.olsen wrote: »

Went to an interview recently and I just got really bad vibes about the people and the company.I thought the interviewer was very arrogant.
Question is if you were lucky to land the job,would you accept/reject based on a "vibe".

It depends if I was going to be working with the interviewer daily. I've been to interviews where I didn't like the interviewer, but got on with them really well after getting the job. Some people are just terrible interviewers and get stressed doing them = come off a arseholes.

the_big_kahuna

Was recently at one myself. I was interviewed by 2 people. One was the manager of the position I was applying for and the other from HR.

The manager person was extremely nice, easy to talk to, and very down to earth but the HR person kept asking me ridiculous questions and was just very uneasy to talk to. The HR person hadn't a bean about what the position involved, so it was ridiculous that they were there in the first place (but I assume they had to be there being HR and all that)

I didn't get the job, but I feel I definately would have had it, had the HR clown not been present and asking really stupid questions. I knew that I was not going to get it once I left..... bad vibes because of the HR clown

tricky D

Bear in mind that most interviews aren't planned well and interviewers actually have poor interviewing skills. That includes HR people - think of how bad they are at correspondence. Also bear in mind that the quality of the interview, or lack of, might not actually reflect the quality of the company/position.

There are interview techniques that are used to see how people react in certain situations. Arrogance is one of them. If you meet arrogance with arrogance, this can go against you as a red flag .

Interrupting somebody is used to knock them off their pedestal and see how they can pick them selves back up.

You will have the good cop bad cop scenario were one interview is very hard and the next one is very easy .

finisklin

Had a woeful interview experience recently where the interviewer really let himself and the company down. Towards the end it was getting to the stage where he was finding it difficult to think of questions to ask and assess my competency for the role.

At this stage I had decided the company wasn't for me. He solidered on and said that I have asked this question to each of the candidates and I hope it doesn't throw you off. He asked what's half of 99? 49 1/2 I confirmed.

He then asked had I any questions, I said no and promptly left. Normally I would ask two to three questions, however he just did my head in.

robo

I think that a lot of interviewers don't prepare for the interview...and this can be so off-putting for the interviewee. I can't understand it myself...if you are interviewing someone for a position, you should have an idea of what type of person you are looking for, and probe them for those attributes through a structured interview.

InReality

yeah I've done that. the company folded a year later with loads of people unpaid for last 6 months.
interview has to be two-way process.
mind you I wouldn't start deciding about any job till get an actual offer.