What Happened During The Interview?
I got sick, then fell asleep.How Did the Interview Turn Out?
Tiffany’s funny story/bad interview with Dow Chemical. Before I graduated from Michigan State, I went to interview with Dow Chemical in Midland Michigan, I drove there, arrived at the group dinner late and ordered the prime rib, I heard a “titter” from the group and when I pressed them, they all said “nothing”, so I kept my order and ended up with a terrible case of food poisoning that struck at 8:15am (fist meeting was 8:00) and it kept me on the hard couch in the ladies room and out of interviews all day. It turns out that a candidate had ordered the prime rib the week before and had also gotten very ill. That story had been told prior to my arrival.I was rescheduled to return to interview another week and after a long school week and a long drive, I was exhausted the day of the interview. It was a grueling full day schedule 8-5 with about 6 (1-hour) interviews scheduled. I was doing well until after lunch I hit a gentleman that I had known from the on-campus recruiting efforts over the years, so he decided not to “interview” me but to tell me the history of Dow Chemical— ad nauseam so I found myself getting very sleepy. Sleepy to the point where I knew that I was in bad shape and that I was about to fall asleep no matter how hard I tried to stay awake. I warned my interviewer, asked for some coffee, drank it and promptly feel fast asleep. I woke up with a start and jumped in my seat, and I even yelled a bit. By the way my interviewer looked at me and I knew at that point that I was a done deal. Needless to say, I didn’t get a job offer from Dow.
