The Worst Interview I Have Ever Had

Kid from nontarget here. Really furious that you get these kind of opportunities and seem to take them lightly. 12 calls from Barclays!?!? I call my girlfriend 6 times at the most if she misses a date!! 12 calls is a damn gift from God.

You would never catch nontargets in a million years doing something like this.

Anyways you should...

Be thankful.

Most intervewers will sit there smiling and laughing and then toss your resume in the trash while you think you're getting second round.

He gave you meaningful feedback. You should be thankful you feel like shit. Use that to improve and never do this again.

Maybe you could have skipped the class for that day. A little self-reflection on your part is needed. Let me rephrase it for you in this way, why would he give a fuck hiring you when the first impression he has is "that kid has got no sense of time"

agree with others. when given these opportunities you really need to prioritize - skip class or leave early, if possible.

interviewing is all about giving the right impression, with many interviewers forming an opinion regarding the candidate within first few minutes. it is difficult to give off the right impression when you start off the interview by being late. hopefully this something to take away for any future interviews.

You realize every minute that Analyst spends conducting phone interviews is another minute later he's staying to finish his actual work, right? You're a college student, you have nothing to do. You're in college to get a job, class doesn't matter for shit - be on time to receive a f*cking phone call.

I assume the only reason that he actually said something about it later in the interview is because you had to have been totally unapologetic about being late, which would definitely piss me off as an interviewer. Any reputable firm will treat its interviewees with a certain level of respect; based on your post I have to believe you gave the interviewer a very good reason to treat you the way he did. As others have said, you really need to do some self-evaluation.

lol one time I did an interview and the guy asked my a random math problem that I didn't see coming. I come from and engineering background and I am used to working things out on paper. I picked up the pen on the table to work it out in my notepad and he looks at me and said "did you ask if you could use my pen." So then I said "sorry, may I use your pen?" and he laughs and say "yes." Literally most awkward moment of my life.

Definitely an odd thing to tell the candidate during the interview itself, but seriously though - in retrospect you should've just left class early / skipped it. I doubt you've learnt something incredibly important during those extra 5 minutes you've spent in class. Given that this is the second time already across the two companies you've mentioned, you should just draw some conclusions from this. From the interviewer's perspective, it's not even about those 5 minutes, it's just the lack of respect from your part for his/her time, especially if the reason you gave the person was "class overran".

you were late for two interviews. two. enough said. you actually made me upset.

People today rustle too much over five, ten, fifteen minutes of lateness, it is ridiculous. Like if most of then would be making millions of dollars in the mean time, and like if they wouldn't be playing out many hours late in the day on Netflix or Facebook. Personally I am never late, but I don't make it a big deal out of a small waiting. Banks today worry so much about this stupid stuff and over hype so much this "first impression" thing that it is laughable when you hear them whining on the press that "finding talent is so difficult nowadays"

how do you get these types of opportunities with such poor writing skillz?

Nobody can be this stupid and lack this much self-awareness. However, you rustled a lot of jimmies. For that, I'm going to score you a 9.5/10 for effective trolling.

I have missed every initial call for a phone interview while at work. But, I was normally calling them back within a minute. I never had an issue with them getting upset and all of them led to the next round.

However, with class you can generally leave early. Your professor will understand.

Worst interview I ever had was when I was asked a math question by an interviewer who messed up the math question, stuttered a few times and then resaid the question, apparently still incorrectly because he resaid it a third time. By that time I too was a bit confused as to what he was trying to say so needless to say it didn't go well because then he said, "forget about it" and later I didn't get the job. This was the first time I was on an interview where the interviewer was nervous. I got a strong feeling from the whole thing that they already had an internal candidate lined up and were just interviewing others for HR purposes so I didn't sweat it too much.

Another time I went for an interview and the guy said that he had just come back from the eye doctor where they had dilated his eyes so he had a hard time seeing and he kept blinking like crazy in the sunlit room we were in. I didn't get that job either LOL.

So beta

Littlestalker:

It reminds me of my very first interview at Barclays, during which I totally forgot the time zone difference, and I got the phone call while sleeping. The interviewer tried ten times to call me on Skype, and when I finally started, I was 12 minutes late.

There's not a chance this happened. I'd be surprised if the interviewer even bothered calling a third time when the candidate is not picking up. Next!

Pretty sure this is just a troll

Try delivering the books to a meeting 5 minutes after it's supposed to start, so your MD is sitting there awkwardly with a client, both of them busy as hell, on the clock at about a thousand bucks an hour.

you're a joke. i'm at a bb, and i wouldn't call you more than twice lol. it's hilarious this has happened to you once, and now twice, and you're still complaining about being mistreated...

sense of entitlement is strong with this one.

also i've never seen so many ms thrown at one person on wso, congrats on making history?

Yea, so it has been said, but maybe take a big step back and realize that the interviewer has full right to be upset over you missing the scheduled time. If you realized there would be a time conflict, you could 1) skip the class, 2) manage your schedule better, 3) raise the conflict to the admin setting the interviews far enough in advance (non-optimal, but at least it shows you're trying to be respectful of their time), or 4) just stop interviewing all together until you get basic time management down. It's a skill that will definitely be required by any first year.

Good luck.

The first interview of my life was my senior year of college during on-campus recruiting. I was doing so poorly that about 10 minutes in the interviewer stopped the interview and let me have it for my lack of preparation and my lack of qualification for the job.

It was harsh, but important feedback. I can guarantee you that I never made those mistakes again.