Worst/Funniest Interview Experiences

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Bottom line to everyone attacking me: I do not wish to offend any Jews, hence why I wouldn't repeat the joke in an interview (I'm addition to the obvious reason that it will likely not be taken well). Do I think it's funny? Yes. But that's my opinion and sense of humor. I laugh at jokes directed towards Hispanics all the time. Doesn't mean I hate my own people. Any who, I specifically said that it's a curse that it is the first joke that comes to mind. Call me whatever you want and let the banhammer come down full force. It ain't gon affect my life any ways.

Don't even bother responding to me, because I'm probably gonna get banned and even if I don't I'm not wasting my time with all yall
 
Im76at711 said:
Yet you're on here
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Im76at711 said:
Bottom line to everyone attacking me: I do not wish to offend any Jews, hence why I wouldn't repeat the joke in an interview (I'm addition to the obvious reason that it will likely not be taken well). Do I think it's funny? Yes. But that's my opinion and sense of humor. I laugh at jokes directed towards Hispanics all the time. Doesn't mean I hate my own people. Any who, I specifically said that it's a curse that it is the first joke that comes to mind. Call me whatever you want and let the banhammer come down full force. It ain't gon affect my life any ways.

Don't even bother responding to me, because I'm probably gonna get banned and even if I don't I'm not wasting my time with all yall
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Im76at711 said:
I'll just make another account
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Since we're on the topic of terrible jokes we've made, here's one I told at a job interview when I was 16.

Q - What's the difference between Michael Jackson and acne?
A - Acne comes on your face AFTER puberty.

Let me re-emphasize that I was 16 and he was not dead yet. I didn't get the job though! Still no clue why.
 
Im76at711 said:
Bottom line to everyone attacking me: I do not wish to offend any Jews, hence why I wouldn't repeat the joke in an interview (I'm addition to the obvious reason that it will likely not be taken well). Do I think it's funny? Yes. But that's my opinion and sense of humor. I laugh at jokes directed towards Hispanics all the time. Doesn't mean I hate my own people. Any who, I specifically said that it's a curse that it is the first joke that comes to mind. Call me whatever you want and let the banhammer come down full force. It ain't gon affect my life any ways.

Don't even bother responding to me, because I'm probably gonna get banned and even if I don't I'm not wasting my time with all yall
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This isn't meant to be an attack, just informative. You seem to be confused about why people thought your joke was worse than other jokes directed at specific racial or religious groups. The reason people were more offended by your joke is because it didn't just make fun of Jewish people, it made fun of the deaths of millions of Jewish people. In general, people are much more offended by jokes about real people getting hurt or killed than by jokes that are stereotypes about groups of people.
 
*I* decided if this came up in interviews, I would *definitely* tell a tasteless joke. The tasteless joke I would tell would be:

Q. What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs in a pile of leaves?

A. Russell.


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Dad jokes are the worst.
 
From last cycle.....

Q: What type of doctor do you want to be?
A: Um... one that helps people.

Needless to say, this cycle is going better.
 
The only joke I know is one I learned from my high school students...

Q: What do gangs have in common with Harry Potter?
A: Chasing snitches.


Edit: In my mind, this is not safe enough for an interview... lol I will definitely do some googling before next cycle.
 
narvik2016 said:
The only joke I know is one I learned from my high school students...

Q: What do gangs have in common with Harry Potter?
A: Chasing snitches.


Edit: In my mind, this is not safe enough for an interview... lol I will definitely do some googling before next cycle.
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I don't think this is inappropriate for an interview. The whole purpose of asking this is to see if you can think quick on your feet.
 
Yeah, I made a bad joke during one of my MMI's. It's scared me from making any more jokes during any med school interview.

@ The "Traditional Interview" station of the MMI. It was my last station, and I was feeling pretty good about how I was doing during the interview. Maybe a bit too good. I walk into the last station and try to break the ice with the interviewer:
"Hi, my name is mordac21. So is this the part of the MMI where I tell you how much I want to be a doctor, and how much I want to come to this school?"
In my mind this is supposed to come off as humorous commentary on the somewhat formulaic nature of med school interviews. Instead, the interviewer shoots me a stern glance, and with a flat affect says:
"How about we let me ask the questions during this interview, please."
 
Okay, now that I've been accepted somewhere I finally feel secure enough to post this!

Interviewer: If you could go back in time and have dinner with anyone you'd like, who would it be?
Me (without any hesitation): Tupac. (internally: Affiche you dumb ****! you're on the east coast!)
Interviewer: Who?
Me: Uhh, Tupac. You know? The rapper?
Interviewer: Oh, oh...yes. What's your favorite song of his?
Me: It depends on my mood. Like when I get ready for interviews I like to listen to (oh ****) "Hit 'em up" (internally: did I actually just admit that?! wth am I doing?!)
Interviewer: Haven't head that one. I'll have to listen to it later!
Me: Please don't.
 
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rachiie01 said:
Okay, now that I've been accepted somewhere I finally feel secure enough to post this!

Interviewer: If you could go back in time and have dinner with anyone you'd like, who would it be?
Me (without any hesitation): Tupac. (internally: Rachiie you dumb ****! you're on the east coast!)
Interviewer: Who?
Me: Uhh, Tupac. You know? The rapper?
Interviewer: Oh, oh...yes. What's your favorite song of his?
Me: It depends on my mood. Like when I get ready for interviews I like to listen to (oh ****) "Hit 'em up" (internally: did I actually just admit that?! wth am I doing?!)
Interviewer: Haven't head that one. I'll have to listen to it later!
Me: Please don't.
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Tupac was the first one to come to mind??
 
rachiie01 said:
Okay, now that I've been accepted somewhere I finally feel secure enough to post this!

Interviewer: If you could go back in time and have dinner with anyone you'd like, who would it be?
Me (without any hesitation): Tupac. (internally: Rachiie you dumb ****! you're on the east coast!)
Interviewer: Who?
Me: Uhh, Tupac. You know? The rapper?
Interviewer: Oh, oh...yes. What's your favorite song of his?
Me: It depends on my mood. Like when I get ready for interviews I like to listen to (oh ****) "Hit 'em up" (internally: did I actually just admit that?! wth am I doing?!)
Interviewer: Haven't head that one. I'll have to listen to it later!
Me: Please don't.
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Yes! Congrats lady!!
 
mordac21 said:
Yeah, I made a bad joke during one of my MMI's. It's scared me from making any more jokes during any med school interview.

@ The "Traditional Interview" station of the MMI. It was my last station, and I was feeling pretty good about how I was doing during the interview. Maybe a bit too good. I walk into the last station and try to break the ice with the interviewer:
"Hi, my name is mordac21. So is this the part of the MMI where I tell you how much I want to be a doctor, and how much I want to come to this school?"
In my mind this is supposed to come off as humorous commentary on the somewhat formulaic nature of med school interviews. Instead, the interviewer shoots me a stern glance, and with a flat affect says:
"How about we let me ask the questions during this interview, please."
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Ouch, that was unnecessarily harsh!
 
rachiie01 said:
Okay, now that I've been accepted somewhere I finally feel secure enough to post this!

Interviewer: If you could go back in time and have dinner with anyone you'd like, who would it be?
Me (without any hesitation): Tupac. (internally: Rachiie you dumb ****! you're on the east coast!)
Interviewer: Who?
Me: Uhh, Tupac. You know? The rapper?
Interviewer: Oh, oh...yes. What's your favorite song of his?
Me: It depends on my mood. Like when I get ready for interviews I like to listen to (oh ****) "Hit 'em up" (internally: did I actually just admit that?! wth am I doing?!)
Interviewer: Haven't head that one. I'll have to listen to it later!
Me: Please don't.
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That along with "Go to Church" is actually my Pre-Stuff pump up song!!!
 
I don't think this one is too bad but..

Me: I want to be able to effect people in the short-term. Like say for instance a person needs hypertension medication, I can provide that.

Interviewer: So you want to be a drug dispensary?

Me: No! That's not what I meant (thinking "f*ck, I'm screwed")

I think I cleaned it up nicely towards the end but that was definitely a rough interview...
 
rachiie01 said:
Okay, now that I've been accepted somewhere I finally feel secure enough to post this!

Interviewer: If you could go back in time and have dinner with anyone you'd like, who would it be?
Me (without any hesitation): Tupac. (internally: Rachiie you dumb ****! you're on the east coast!)
Interviewer: Who?
Me: Uhh, Tupac. You know? The rapper?
Interviewer: Oh, oh...yes. What's your favorite song of his?
Me: It depends on my mood. Like when I get ready for interviews I like to listen to (oh ****) "Hit 'em up" (internally: did I actually just admit that?! wth am I doing?!)
Interviewer: Haven't head that one. I'll have to listen to it later!
Me: Please don't.
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"Please don't" oh my god, this is probably the greatest interview interaction i've ever read of.
 
medic86 said:
Lol.

I don't discriminate. I can bump some Mobb Deep after listening to Tupac. 😛
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hell yeah! though growing up on the east coast as made me bias towards east coast rap looool. grew up on so much wu tang, biggie, and nas
 
wavvvvvves123 said:
hell yeah! though growing up on the east coast as made me bias towards east coast rap looool. grew up on so much wu tang, biggie, and nas
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Tupac >Biggie 😉
But actually I'm worried my interviewer will look up that song and associate me with the opening line, which is soooo foul. Not my wisest moment!
 
Lawper said:
I have a huge arsenal of dirty jokes used to pick up women, so yeah, I'm back to the drawing board.
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This is my biggest fear: the "tell me a joke" question. Oh, I've GOT jokes, but they are all filthy. I would frantically spin the Rolodex in my mind and come up miserably short of anything bordering on interview appropriate.
 
Ok, I've mustered up the courage to post this!

Interviewer: My wife knows a lot of people with the same last name as you. They go to (church name).

Me: Yeah I have a huge family, many of them attend (church name).

Interviewer: I heard one of your family members died recently.

Me: *struggling to think of who has passed away recently... not succeeding, but not wanting to tragically forget someone who actually died*

Interviewer: *changes the subject*

Result: Accepted. AND I asked around... nobody in my extensive family has died recently! Score!
 
Not sure if this counts, but my interviewer asked me to list all schools I interviewed at and whether or not I had been accepted anywhere. I mentally cringed as he wrote them all down 😕 ...

Interviewer: So why wouldn't you go to X school instead?
Me: Well, I think I would fit in best with this school because-
Interviewer: (cuts me off) No, this school is better than ours! You must go there!
😕😵
 
cherubb3 said:
Ok, I've mustered up the courage to post this!

Interviewer: My wife knows a lot of people with the same last name as you. They go to (church name).

Me: Yeah I have a huge family, many of them attend (church name).

Interviewer: I heard one of your family members died recently.

Me: *struggling to think of who has passed away recently... not succeeding, but not wanting to tragically forget someone who actually died*

Interviewer: *changes the subject*

Result: Accepted. AND I asked around... nobody in my extensive family has died recently! Score!
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Wtf? Why would they bring something like that up?
 
dizzylizzy said:
Not sure if this counts, but my interviewer asked me to list all schools I interviewed at and whether or not I had been accepted anywhere. I mentally cringed as he wrote them all down 😕 ...

Interviewer: So why wouldn't you go to X school instead?
Me: Well, I think I would fit in best with this school because-
Interviewer: (cuts me off) No, this school is better than ours! You must go there!
😕😵
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Yeah both of my interviewers in Boston said I shouldn't move to Boston... Hopefully I'll still get in... It was weird.
 
Not really sure if this qualifies but during one of my recent interviews, my interviewer highly recommended a book for me to read, handed me the book to peruse and then went on a fairly long rant about his pet peeve of medical students stealing his books. It was only at the end of the day when I was heading to the airport that I noticed I was still holding the book in my hand.

In another interview, the interviewer would do this weird thing where she would simply stare after each one of my responses, followed by painfully long silences. It was a strange situation for me and I didn't want to ramble, so I kept repeating "okay.... okay.... this is great...." over and over again to fill the silences, which was then followed by more awkward silences.

Results: TBA fairly soon...
 
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ivorypearls said:
Not really sure if this qualifies but during one of my recent interviews, my interviewer highly recommended a book for me to read, handed me the book to peruse and then went on a fairly long rant about his pet peeve of medical students stealing his books. It was only at the end of the day when I was heading to the airport that I noticed I was still holding the book in my hand.
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Wow, talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy. Are you sure he wasn't a wizard playing a trick on you?
 
ivorypearls said:
In another interview, the interviewer would do this weird thing where she would simply stare after each one of my responses, followed by painfully long silences. It was a strange situation for me and I didn't want to ramble
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I had a very similar situation at one of my first interviews. After I answered a question, the interviewer would just stare at me, expressionless. The first couple of times I asked whether he wanted me to elaborate further (I didn't want to ramble, either) and he replied "Do you feel that you need to?". I didn't, so later in the interview I just smiled and waited for him to ask another question.

Result: Waitlist. :shrug:
 
The deceased family member bit sounds like it would be more appropriate for a "Worst Interview Questions" thread.
 
Cotterpin said:
Wow, talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy. Are you sure he wasn't a wizard playing a trick on you?
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Lol call it a self-fulfilling prophecy or just plain irony. Either way, I eventually returned the book so hopefully it didn't leave much of a bad impression

gyrfalcon said:
I had a very similar situation at one of my first interviews. After I answered a question, the interviewer would just stare at me, expressionless. The first couple of times I asked whether he wanted me to elaborate further (I didn't want to ramble, either) and he replied "Do you feel that you need to?". I didn't, so later in the interview I just smiled and waited for him to ask another question.

Result: Waitlist. :shrug:
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That was arguably the worst and most cringe worthy interview experience I've had by far. I was really sick and delirious from medications, so I probably ended up appearing like a babbling idiot anyway. You did a much better job of handling that situation. Wishing the best and hopefully you get off that waitlist!
 
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Not necessarily a bad interview answer, but I recently found out that my next door neighbor is on the Adcom for one of the med schools I interviewed at. Only after I had spent an evening telling him and the rest of my family (over several glasses of wine) that the med school was OK but not my first choice did he elect to tell me that he was on the committee. :bang:


We'll find out in a few days what effect that had...
 
goldy490 said:
Not necessarily a bad interview answer, but I recently found out that my next door neighbor is on the Adcom for one of the med schools I interviewed at. Only after I had spent an evening telling him and the rest of my family (over several glasses of wine) that the med school was OK but not my first choice did he elect to tell me that he was on the committee. :bang:


We'll find out in a few days what effect that had...
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Oops. Oh man, that hurts.
 
At one of my first interviews, and I guess I was so prepared I couldn't find the answer in my head.
Interviewer: Tell me a time you have failed?
Me: .... (I have answered this question in my head 1000x times 10 different ways, thanks brain way to pull through in the clutch)
Interviewer:...
Me: A time that I have failed?
Interviewer: Yes
Me: ..... Answering this question
 
Here's a story that I have to leave out some details for anonymity's sake (although my friends who lurk SDN already know who this is).

Bit of exposition: I took community college classes in my youth. Let's call the school "X Community College." X is also the name of a university that's locally known, but not too prominent on the national scale. Of course, my classes at X Community College need to go on my AMCAS application, much to my chagrin. I didn't really try in these classes -- about 30 credit's worth -- which brought down my overall AMCAS gpa by A LOT.

So I go into the interview, and the first question the lady asks: "So, tell me about your time at X." A simple, ice-breaker type question, right? But I'm really confused, because "X" is the name of the locally known university, which I didn't attend. I give her a confused "wha?" kind of look for a few seconds. After some thought, I ask her if she's looking at the right application. "I don't remember going to X," I say. So she turns around the file, and sure enough it's mine. And after seeing my transcript, I exhale "ohhhhhhhhhhh....X Community College." So I proceed not to explain the naming confusion at all. Through the rest of the interview, I'm kind of flustered because in my mind this lady thinks I'm so ill prepared for my interview that I don't even remember where I went to school.

Result: accepted
 
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So this was more of a conversational interview. We were talking about the power of the media in public perception, and how you could watch a story on CNN and Fox and get two completely different stories:

Interviewer: Yeah, there's a lot of stories where that is the case.
Me: Yeah, especially with Trevon Martin (.......just stop, don't keep going......) wait, not that one. Wait! Ferguson! :slap:

Result: Accepted 😀
 
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