Ok, here's a chance to bring an interview to light. This was the only interview so far, where I was the interviewer (albeit, only for a question).
We had this candidate who called in early, one morning. Since the VP (my boss) was out, and because there was no other qualified person (as in legally qualified to take decisions in hiring) to take the interview, who we had to ask him to come back later in the evening. (Note: the VP was the person running the show, and his general cluelessness brought down the company later).
Fast forward to the evening.
The interview panel is ready and our candidate has come ahead on time. (Warning signal: this man seems to have all the time in the world to troop around the city)
The interview is being held behind closed doors, so the developers (I guess that was only me) have no idea about what is going inside.
5 minutes later, I'm asked to join the panel and ask our candidate some questions in Java. So here goes my first stint at interviewing:
First question ( which turned out to be the only question) : I hope you know about HTTP GET and POST. Did you do any work with regard to parsing input received from the browser via GET and POST ?
His answer : Ah yes, HTTP POST is something I work on, a lot. That is my specialty. Isn't that the library used in the latest version of Internet Explorer ? Netscape Communicator is not being widely used because it doesn't implement that library.
I felt as if someone was choking me. Since I had asked this question standing near the door (which I later learnt was the most advantageous position in the room), I could only mumble something incoherent, nodded my head and waved hands as if in a trance, and silently slink away from there.
My friend later talked to me about this interview in detail. It seems that the interviewee was fresh out of college and didn't seem to have got a job elsewhere (we paying well below market rates, and our company was unheard of in the industry). The VP had interviewed him something like this:
VP: So, how long has it been since you've graduated ?
Candidate: 3 months....
VP: What were doing in these 3 months ?
Candidate: Well, I met with an accident.
VP: Were you the only person involved?
Candidate: No sir, my friend was also involved.
VP: What happened to him?
Candidate: Well, he died.
VP: How soon did he die?
Candidate: Well, he died on the spot.
Needless to say, I've never ever been so shocked in my life to say "WTF?". Champion cluelessness against Champion liar.