The interview location had wide, open roads, easy parking, and I could conveniently buy something nearby. Other than that, nothing.

The worst interview experience I've had since entering the workforce (and I've interviewed with more than 30 companies).

Although the first interview was already unpleasant, the second interview was truly beyond redemption.

I was interviewing for a marketing-related position. The first interview was with a junior internal manager, Manager A. After I briefly introduced myself, she thought I seemed okay.

However, the manager of the main department wasn't there, so another interview had to be scheduled. It was arranged for a Saturday. Since Manager B was willing to take time out of the weekend to interview me, I decided to accommodate them.

The second interview was truly a disaster. First, I arrived about 15 minutes before the scheduled time and went in to ask at the reception desk. The receptionist didn't know that anyone was coming for an interview and thought I must have gotten the time wrong (the company's administrative and other departments did not work on weekends). After I showed the relevant emails from the job bank to confirm the arrangements, they verified that I was indeed scheduled for an interview.

Meanwhile, one of the receptionists went upstairs to ask another department manager, Manager C, who happened to be there that day. Since the contact information I had provided was for Manager A, the junior manager from the first interview, Manager C kept trying to contact her for confirmation. When she finally got through, we learned that Manager A had indeed arranged the interview, but the person actually supposed to interview me that day was Manager B.

I also learned over the phone that Managers B and C were siblings and both belonged to the company's second generation. Manager C had been drinking too much at a private gathering the previous day and was still hungover. When she first answered the phone, she wanted to cancel the interview.

However, Manager C (the younger sibling, who may have felt sorry toward me—by then, the originally scheduled interview time had already passed by an hour) asked Manager B to come over as soon as possible to conduct the interview. Leaving aside whether the interviewer had driven there while intoxicated, which cannot be determined, the actual interview began more than an hour and a half after the originally agreed-upon time (and the actual interview lasted less than 15 minutes). In between, I only filled out a written test with almost no ability to distinguish candidates. On top of that, the interviewer was hungover that day, and the questions asked showed an extreme lack of relevant knowledge.

The question I remember most clearly was how I would persuade the boss to allocate funds for running the company's online operations, because she had brought it up many times without getting any results. I replied by presenting a complete proposal, possible solutions, profit projections, and other evidence comprehensively demonstrating that online marketing was feasible. (But privately, I was also thinking very clearly: if, as I had learned from the conversation, even the boss's daughter couldn't persuade the boss, perhaps she should first consider where the problem lay.)

Since it was already clear during the interview that this was a strongly family-run business and that the second-generation manager had a poor attitude, I no longer felt inclined to work there.