'I was asked if I was a crier': Your worst job interviews revealed

She waited for around 40 minutes in a shopping centre while the interviewer's co-worker called them "two or three times". She needed work at the time, so took the job when she was offered it, but says she would handle the situation differently now. "I would not take a job if they took that long," she says, adding that she believed her treatment during the interview was a sign of how the firm tended to treat staff. Tiara is far from alone.

She is one of many people who spoke to the BBC about their worst job interview experiences after we wrote about the one interview question that leaves you feeling uncomfortable . During an interview for an assistant at a book publisher in New York, Chas Edwards was asked a question he wasn't expecting. Thinking the interviewer was being funny, Chas replied that he didn't cry. He was later told that this was why he got the job.

"Her last assistant had cried – too often, I guess? – and she wanted someone who didn't cry. So she was being serious and I thought it was a joke," he says. It was a bad sign.