How do I handle interviews nicely if I don't like HR? [closed]

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

In my country, it is common culture for HR to be insulting. They will ask illegal questions. They will make you jump through hoops, not to prove your skill, but to prove you really want the job.

The reason is because they get hundreds, if not thousands of applications, but the majority of those applications are seriously unqualified. However, this makes them arrogant. They claim this arrogance as a way to filter out resume spammers.

I know the company itself is quite good. And I know the HR are actually nice people. They were somehow trained to be arrogant, simply because "bigger companies are like that."

One of my pet peeves are interviews that ask completely irrelevant questions like "If you were an animal, what kind of animal would you be?" and an hour long exam with pointless questions like "Translate this long binary number into decimal."

I'm fully qualified for the job, and it's simply a screening interview to see that I'm not crazy. But dumb and illegal questions tend to trigger me into looking mean and crazy.

manpreet 2 years ago

There is only one way to deal with this situation:

Be the professional!

If you have to jump through the hoops to get the job, jump through the hoops. Prove that you are indeed highly qualified and the best candidate for the job. It doesn't matter if you dislike HR, that's entirely irrelevant. If they are the gatekeeper, then do the tasks you are set to the best of your ability or you will find yourself being rejected before you start.

As you say, this is a cultural issue for you. You can't change it, especially from the outside. Maintain a high level of professionalism, transcend any negative feelings you have and you can pass through this initial process to get into the more relevant aspects of your application process.