Have you ever been on an interview that was scheduled to last a half hour or more and within five minutes or so thought, "I really don't want to work with you or your company?" Did you sit through the interview or leave?

I have never been on a scheduled interview but I have walked out before it was finished because I learned that I really did not want to work for the company after listening to the one conducting the interview.

Sat through it to give the pitch a fair chance.

I sat through to be nice. I did make it an option if there was nowhere else to go. Sometimes things may seem to be a little vague and the one that is interviewing you is not the whole face of the company. I guess I like to keep my options open.

Good question, and hugs/+5 for asking! You must be polite enough to sit through the entire interview, but if offered a position at the end then state that you would like to take a day to consider the offer; you can then call back the next day to decline the position. Always, always keep the ball in your court, as corporate views may change, and supervisors are a dime a dozen and easily replaced -- a position may become available at a later date which you might be interested in applying for and you want to leave the door open!

Yep, but one of the interviewers was so hot looking I just couldn't stop staring at her breasts..Guess that was enough for me to lose the job, but wow, was she hot!

I have. Sat through it though to give it a fair chance...but my demeanor changed so much that they understood I won't be working for them.

Even if you don't want the job, you should stay to leave a good impression. You never know when or where you will run into the interviewer in the future.

Conversely, if you are the interviewer, you should be polite to the person you are interviewing, even if you aren't going to hire them. You never know when you will run into them.

I've done it, but stayed to see if anything would change my mind.

I've conducted several interviews where I knew almost right away if the person just wasn't going to work out. I've always given them a fair shake though.

My boss recently did an interview for a web developer position where the guy showed up in T-shirt and ripped jeans, appeared completely disinterested, and admitted that he'd never even been to our company's web site. The interview lasted less than a minute and a half, my boss simply said that he wasn't the type of person he wanted working for him, and that the candidate probably wouldn't like working for my boss either.

Little tip...if you're interviewing for the job of managing a company's web site...go to the web site before the interview. Because they're gonna ask if you've been there, what you thought of it, and what you'd change about it.