This was in 2015 and seeing the mention of "DNA" made me want to share my experience interviewing at Idea Booth. I've interviewed dozens of places and this takes the cake for the craziest interview of all time. Hopefully, things have improved since my interview process.
They reached out to me through my website to see if I'd be interested in interviewing for a graphic design internship. I had two phone interviews that went great and they invited me in for an in-person interview. It was a panel interview with four employees, one of which was a founder.
Questions were pretty standard, where do you see yourself in five years, what are your career goals, skills, etc. However, one of the employees would ask me these questions and several minutes later another would ask me the exact same question. I'm not sure if this was a strategy or they weren't listening?
One employee got two pages into my portfolio, said, "I've seen all I need to see," and left the interview after about 10 minutes. I wasn't sure how to take that since presumably, they had seen my website before inviting me to interview in the first place? I'm about as inoffensive as you can get, so it wasn't like he had seen something in my portfolio that was offensive or I had said/done something offensive. We had barely had a chance to talk.
As I mentioned, one employee REALLY kept hitting the line, "Working here is either in your DNA or it's not," hard. At this point, I knew it absolutely was not in my DNA and was very grateful for my genes. He also asked me if I was married (illegal), if I had children (also illegal), and if I "was married to a man" (soooo illegal). I wasn't upset that they asked, because even if an offer was coming there was no way I would accept. But the fact that no one stopped him from asking these clearly illegal questions was very telling.
I left laughing because the entire experience was so completely absurd that I felt like I was on a hidden camera show. From more current reviews, it sounds like they have streamlined their process and hopefully the entire experience is better. It also makes for a great story to tell!
They did follow up a few days later and let me know they were going with another candidate. I replied that I agreed it wouldn't be a good fit and thanked them for the opportunity.