So whenever you conduct an interview you have to have someone else sit in on it and score the candidate. To alleviate getting HR to sit in on the interviews, managers will just ask another manager to assist. Sometimes its just to be a fly on the wall, take notes and rank the candidate, other times they want them to be engaged and ask questions. He has asked me to sit in his interviews.

I have held many interviews that are very formal and others that are very informal. At my current company they are formal. Questions have to be determined in advance and submitted to HR. Each candidate needs to have been presented with the same questions and not just a casual interview where you let the discussion take its course. Again, for fairness everyone has to have the same opportunity.

Well damn, I can see he doesn't have much interview experience. He's asking questions that are not even on the agenda. Again, this is fine in other companies and settings, but this is very formal and you have to stick to the script. I spoke to him about that. So sure enough he is now asking the questions on the script, but in his own words. What's wrong with that? Well different candidates get a different version or interpretation of the question. Additionally and more importantly, he completely changes the context of the question. He intends to ask the question, but ends up asking a completely different question which make note taking and scoring for that question rather difficult. JUST READ THE WORDS ON THE PAPER.

Oh did I mention he wanted me to write his interview questions for him?

Its also his demeanor in the interviews, he's way to casual. I'm not saying to act like a drill sergeant, but be a little more professional. For example:

Him: What's the weather like out today?
Candidate: Oh it's really cold
Him: I hear ya. We (pointing to himself and the candidate) we're not meant for this weather. We're used to 30 degrees. (the candidate was also brown $\:\|$ )

His transition from one question to another is also questionable. After the candidate answers a question his response is "excellent", "wonderful" or "great" as he flips the page to proceed to the next question. Really dude? What interview are you sitting in, cuz this guy is bombing big time? Don't give the candidate false hope or positive feedback when it isn't warranted. They could easily turn around and question whey they weren't hired given the positive words they were hearing.

Ok I should end this rant now cuz I'm going off the deep end.