To ask you to share tough interview questions or tasks and any tips?

[Allisnotlost1]

I have an interview in two weeks, senior public affairs in a charity (similar role but different sector to my current job). Give me the worst!

YABU - this is no way to prepare for a serious task (I know, I know…)
YANBU - this is group learning

Ask chatgpt. Drop the jd into it and ask it to deep research on potential interview questions/ tasks.
Have you looked at glassdoor?

I have done all that of course, I’m well prepared but hoping to hear some zingers/horror stories and how people dealt with them.

What is a project you've worked on that you'd consider a failure.

I've not had anything bad as an interviewee but i've had some interesting answers to my questions. I would say if there is any specific system or technical knowledge listed in the job description, prep on that. So for our JD we asked for knowledge on a specific piece of software. I asked for an example of how they used in their current role and a technical question about it. They waffled about a totally different software and then when i redirected them back to the question they tried to blag it and talked about something the software couldn't do.

So many people fall down with not carefully studying the JD and answering generically on their experience rather than pushing the answer around the JD.

I would also say don't get flustered if the interviewer clarifies a question or goes back on it. If someone is clearly no hope I just smile and nod but if someone is good but just not quite understanding, I'll try again with different phrasing and its a positive sign for the interviewee. One time I did this and the poor lamb was thrown for a loop and immediately shut down and panicked

As no doubt you are aware, quality of answers( on mnet as in gen ai )depends on the quality of the questions and prompts….

How would you do (example you’ve already given) better next time?