Please don’t bring your parents to work with you

If i was interviewing someone and they brought their parent to the interview, (assuming they are legally an adult) i'd immediate ask them to leave, because they're clearly unfit to deal with the world. Sometimes you just gotta stand on your own two feet, and your first job interview is one of those times.

American HNers, is this really a thing in the US?<p>As a so-called &quot;millenial&quot; in the UK, I just can&#x27;t imagine myself, or any of my peers, actually bringing parents into job interviews.<p>Surely there&#x27;s something wrong if, after 4 years of college, people are so unprepared to stand on their own two feet.

I&#x27;ve never seen or heard of this 1st or 2nd hand. I&#x27;ve heard of hearing about it, but only in blog posts. I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s been done, but I doubt if it&#x27;s a thing.<p>If it happened to me ... I don&#x27;t know. I guess I&#x27;d let it play out, out of fascination and curiosity. You never know when you might learn something.

Several years ago, I remember reading - in a number of articles - that some companies were actually changing their interviewing and on-boarding procedures to accommodate parents. I couldn&#x27;t believe it and hoped it was a satirical take on the American &quot;helicopter parents&quot;. But after reading a number of articles and anecdotes, I had to accept that it was true. And that these were companies I&#x27;d never want to work for.<p>I&#x27;m so glad that the pendulum never swung all the way over and is, in fact, swinging back away from that. I recently read of a hiring a manager who rescinded a job offer after the candidate&#x27;s mother called to inquire seating arrangements and benefits.

NPR had a good story, &quot;Helicopter Parents Hover in the Workplace&quot;, back in early 2012, about parents thrusting themselves into their adult children&#x27;s work lives by doing things like applying for jobs for the child, calling the employer to ask for raises for the child, and coming to interviews with the child [1].<p>[1] <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/02/06/146464665/helicopter-parents-hover-in-the-workplace" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;02&#x2F;06&#x2F;146464665&#x2F;helicopter-parents-h...</a>

I&#x27;m skeptical that this is a real phenomenon. Maybe it happened in a few highly publicized cases, but I have never heard of anything like this.

Funny, but it might be helpful for things like salary negotiations.