At my last job it was just the HR interview and an interview with my prospective boss, but my boss’ idea of an interview was to make me take a lengthy, ridiculous test he designed himself that was mostly questions he could have just asked me, including a bunch of weird lateral thinking questions cribbed from “This Google interview question will stump you” clickbait, plus intentional interruptions during the test to see how I handled the unexpected.

I felt kind of insulted by it but I’m glad I stuck it out, because he turned out to be a great boss, who just happens to have strange ideas about interviewing.