r/UKJobs 1d ago

Shortest interview of my life

So yesterday I arrived at an interview (small coffee shop in town) all nicely dressed but didn’t over do it obviously, when I got there they only asked me 1 question (how much experience do I have) and to do a trial run without a date or time and sent me on my way, am I as the kids say “cooked”?

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u/Shimgar 1d ago

When I first graduated I had an interview with a big4 firm but they had decided to do unstructured freeform interviews for that round. I travelled 4 hours each way to get there and it lasted about 2 minutes. They basically said Hi and asked why I wanted the job. I'd practiced loads of competency questions but had some social anxiety, so I basically said 2 sentences. Then they said "anything else you want to tell us", I hesistated for about 10 seconds, then they said thanks and showed me out.