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As an interviewer the company I worked for got one of "those" CVs. You know the kind. The kind that will cite a job at 7-11 as a job involving inventory management, customer service, basic mechanical maintenance, etc. etc. etc. Puffing up everything, no matter how trivial, into something truly meaningful and significant. And then you add the cover letter that looks like the kind of thing that ChatGPT would churn out if you told it to go max purple ... only this predates ChatGPT by a good 30 years, so an actual person wrote this!

The boss left the hiring pre-process to department heads and I suggested to them that we bring this specific guy in on a slow day so that one person after another could sit down in the interview with him and tighten the thumbscrews.

And the marketing manager went for it!

So when he came in, we spent the better part of a day (we supplied a good lunch, though) torturing this poor guy, making it clear one interview after another that he was not suited for the position.

And still he called back 48 hours later to see if we had a position for him.

I think that's the worst I ever acted as an interviewer. It was delightful!