I definitely can't top yours, but some of the amusing interviews I've had: 1. I was interviewing with my would-be boss who was really selling me on the job, "No overtime, no weekends, no on-call..." Later in the interview, that went exceptional, he let slip, "I can't wait to get you in here so I can finally go home at night to see my family!" What happened to no overtime?! I also figured out through talking with him further that the only way I would possibly move up in that position is for the guy I was interviewing with to retire or die. I didn't see either happening any time soon, so I declined the job. 2. I interview for a Systems and Network Administrator position on a well known and growing consulting firm who was starting a new long term contract in my city. The first interview went very well. I got a quick call back for a second interview with 2 of the new team's technical architechs. The interview consisted of all really detailed Java programming questions, ridiculous theory questions, and abstract theoretical "What if" questions (i.e. What if I asked you to give me 6 ways to measure the height of the building using this tape measure). I was able to answer most since I had been a programmer for a few years and had done a few years in college, but nothing as technical as "What do you like and dislike about make and how would you fix it and how does it compare to ant, in your opinion?". If I had an issue with make I always thought it was my fault for not know how to use the tool. That assumption was usually correct. After a while, one of the interviewers said, "Wait, I think based on this guys resume and answers that he was looking for a System/Network Admin job." At that point the main interviewer jumped up, screamed "I don't know anything about Systems administration! This is ridiculous!", threw down his pen and stormed out of the room. I stayed to answer, successfully, all the admin questions from the second guy only to never receive a call back or letter from the company again. 3. Was more amusing and happened to be from the sys admin dept. of the company I am currently a .NET developer for. Months (about 6 or more I believe) after I interview with them I received a call from one of their admins asking me some generic, ridiculously easy questions about Windows administration. After 2 questions and obviously dragging this out, he finally started talking quicker and got to the point, "Why haven't you accepted the position with us here?" "Well, that would be because you never offere

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