What is a stress interview? Are stress interviews common in campus selection process?
* In almost all the Campus selection interviews, the interviewers try to make the interviewee as comfortable as possible. Very seldom does one come across stress interviews in campus recruitments. In stress interviews, the candidate is subjected to pressure. Right from the word “go,” the interviewers shoot questions at rapid-fire speed. They will probably not give enough time to the interviewee for any question – before the interviewee can complete an answer, the next question is asked. Sometimes, the next question is asked even before the candidate starts the answer. The interviewers also tend to make fun of the candidate almost throughout the interview – making comments that the candidate does not know anything, etc. They can ask very personal questions in a stress interview which can make the candidate very uncomfortable. While stress interviews do not form a significant proportion of the total number of interviews conducted for any institute, it is not uncommon to find a stress int
