This happened less than a month ago.

I was interviewing for a position in a rotation program. I walk into the room and 2 ladies are waiting for me. The first thing they say to me is that they are having a very bad day and that they hate Houston.

So right away I'm thinking, "this is not going well."

Boeing does this "structured" interview thing for the first round and it never changes. 6 questions read from a form that the interviewers write down the answers on, all situational questions like "Tell me a time when....".

So a couple of questions in I finish my answer and they are writing stuff down. To fill the silence I try to make small talk, "So where are y'all from?"

They look me straight in the eye, and one of them says, "Mr. Ingram, please try to keep the conversation relevant to the questions at hand."

Still waiting to hear if I made it to the next round.

spiffy