The lead operations manager asked a lot of questions about high school, which to me in my mid 30s felt a bit irrelevant to the position I was applying for as there was so much more she could have requested of me that would have been more important to the position. Such as the skills I have, or what my team (who are the people I regularly work with would say about me.) Or what I might say about my own personal strengths and weaknesses are. Instead, they asked me about my management. Which was ok… I guess… but it felt as though she kept wanting me to bad mouth each of them only pressing for a negative response and gossip. This made me feel incredibly uncomfortable. It made it hard for me to stay on track as I kept trying to redirect to my work skills instead of just talking about the negatives I experienced in previously held positions.
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I did my best to keep redirecting the conversation to something a bit more positive… even if I was not successful. By the end of the interview I found myself stumbling as I have not experienced this level of unprofessionalism during an interview. I went in thinking I was going to answer questions about my skills and the importance of how my team felt about me. Instead I was only asked about my experience with my managers… however, my managers are not the ones I spend most of my days with. My team and providers were. It was not a hard interview because of challenging questions regarding how I would handle situations in an emergent situation. It was hard because I have never been asked those questions and most employers would prefer you did not speak negatively about previous employers. It was quite the experience.