• If you could be number-one employee but have all your coworkers dislike you OR you could be last in the line but have all your coworkers like you, which would you choose?

• How many people are using Facebook in San Francisco at 2:30pm on a Friday?

• If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?

• Room, desk and car – which do you clean first?

• Would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer?

 

These are some of the oddball questions used by interviewers. Some that test the candidate’s analytical skills, some test the candidate’s presence of mind and a lot of them are plain absurd.

 

Xperiments Seattle, proudly presents 'The Interview'. Written by Siddharth Kumar and directed by Subhag Oak, The Interview is a winner of four Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) awards and was selected for the Hot Ink festival of new plays in New York. The play exposes the seamier side of the corporate world; where favors are traded, every cupboard has a skeleton, and where success is the only altar.

 

A bright, young man, holding his resume close, waits nervously at the reception of one of the country's largest corporations. Moments later he is called in for his job interview. But nothing he learnt in college, university or his last few jobs has prepared him for what comes next, perhaps the most unusual and challenging hour of his life. But he's keen to make it through this. After all, it is a job to die for…

 

A dark corporate satire, the play seeks to bring out the realities of the interview-process, not to be missed!

 

 

October 31 2015 - November 8 2015