Candidate 'hasn't recovered' after messing up job interview when they were asked 'what is your background'

Job interviews are a universally loathed experience.

On one side of the table you've got someone trying the best to sell their personality and professional skills, while on the other side is sat an employer who is also considering other people.

No matter how confident you are, job interviews reduce the best of us to nervous, sweating messes.

However for every interview faux-pas you've made, there will always be another person whose had an even worse experience.

Redditors have shared their worst interview moments with each other. (Getty Stock Photos)

Looking to take solace in each other's embarrassing moments were the commenters on a recent Reddit thread titled 'What's the earliest you've ever messed up a job interview?' seeing users share their cringe-inducing interview moments for everyone online to read.

One reply in particular was pretty toe-curling, with one Redditor revealing they managed to mess up replying to a comment asking about their professional experience.

The comment read: "'Whats your background?' Look behind myself and back around to video call 'Well it's a sort of mirror?' [to which the interviewer replied]

'I mean what is your background in work?'"

Clearly the interaction has had a lasting memory on the user, as they summed up their post by added: "I still haven't recovered from that."

Thankfully for the original poster, they aren't the only person to have made that mistake, as another person shared a similar experience a friend went through.

Have you ever made any of these mistakes? (Getty Stock Photos)

"My friend has an almost identical experience, he shared his screen to show some work, and after showing a few of his projects off was asked 'what's your background?' And he minimised all the tabs to show off his blackhole background," they replied.

"Bro pulls his phone out and says oh it’s quite cool here’s my cat," another added.

Thankfully, several other Redditors were quick to suggest a way to turn the awkward interactions shared around by utilising humour.

"Been interviewing a lot lately. I would not at all be bothered by that answer, it would be an amusing ice-breaker to be honest," one reply read.

"Any interviewer who didn’t find that amusing would be an awful person to work for," a second added.

For anyone who is still feeling red-faced about their interview experiences, another thread suggested more practical tips on how to stop torturing yourself over your answers and use it as a learning experience.

"I told myself that the job just wasn’t for me, anyway. I obviously didn’t click with the people interviewing me, and I wouldn’t have wanted to have to work under them," one person replied, while another said to 'note down all the positives and negatives' before moving on.

We've all been there.