Interview Bloopers

Over the last few years that I have been conducting interviews at VN as well as at my earlier jobs, there have been many memorable instances, some of which I’d like to share with you all: 

Mother India Aniket: “What is your goal in life?” Candidate (Female,22/23 year old fresher): “To have a baby!” Aniket: “How can ValueNotes help you in that?” (I was going to say ‘how can I help you with that’ …. But that would have sounded like Ranjeet or Prem Chopda!)

Spiderman   Aniket: “Can you tell me about yourself?” Candidate: Ignores my question and keeps on following a fly which is flying around the conference room. Aniket: “Excuse me!” Candidate: Still can’t get his eyes off the fly! Aniket: “Ok Spiderman, you can catch the fly first …. I’ll wait!”

The Stalker Aniket: “So where are you from?” Candidate: “Sir, I am also from Mumbai.” Aniket: “Also means?” Candidate: “Sir, I know you are also from Mumbai!” Aniket: “Huh?” Candidate: “I saw you come in the morning at 9.07am in a blue Indica car with a MH02xxx number. You were wearing dark glasses and carrying a black bag. You parked behind the black santro whose number plate was MH12xxx. You removed your dark glasses and kept then in the glove box and wore your spectacles……….”  Aniket: Nearly jumps out of the window!

The Ata Majhi Satakli girl Aniket: “So, how are you doing today?” Candidate (female): Literally jumps out of her chair and says “WHAT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN?” Aniket: (Literally quaking in his shoes) – “I just asked how you are.” Candidate: “Oh like that! I thought …………..” Aniket: (forgets all the questions he was planning to ask! And is still shaking!!)

Humpty Dumpty Aniket: “So what did you do after college?” (This is a few minutes into the interview) Candidate: Just slips from the chair and plops on the ground! Funnily he stays there for some time till I get up from my chair to see where in the seven hells he had disappeared! He is still sitting there crossed legged staring at me! And then he says “Sir, I want to go home!”

Needless to say none of the candidates were selected!