Anyone got any positive stories following being late for an interview?

I wouldn't write them off completely. All other things being equal I'd choose someone who wasn't late, but I wouldn't let a simple mistake like that put me off a candidate who was otherwise suitable.

Poor you though, what a nightmare.

A girl who worked for us got lost and was late for her interview. There was lots of frantic phone calls trying to direct her to our building.

She did get the job though..... however she was a nightmare for the next couple of years working for us and never ended up where she was supposed to but she was great at her job!

Fingers crossed for you.

More a grim story than a positive one, but here you go. My husband's friend B had an interview for a pupillage. Unfortunately on the way there he shat himself on the tube (nerves, apparently ?). rather than postponing he went to M&S, squelched into the changing room, got changed, put his dirty things in a bag and binned them, then got to his interview 20 mins late and got the pupillage. So it could be worse ?

My experience of interviewing people is that a huge amount of it is simply whether you click with them. If you do, you've got a good chance even if things go wrong. If you don't you never had a chance, so nothing you did made any difference.

H turned up 24 hours late for an interview and still got the job. He was told Tuesday at 2 and it was Monday at 2, they rearranged to get an interview panel at short notice and gave him a fair hearing, oh and gave him the job.

I was late for the interview for my last job, I went to the wrong site, duh, ended up being about half an hour late, still got the job

Thanks all....perhaps there is hope! At least I didn't shit myself so clearly it could be worse ?

I felt as though I got on well with the man who would be my boss IF I got the job, but it was quite a formal, competency-based interview with two people though so I don't know if clicking will be enough.

I think I'm going to assume that I probably haven't got it, and then if I hear otherwise it will be a very pleasant surprise.

My company are recruiting at the minute and apparently one of the 2 guys that made it to the second interview was late. They still favour him over the other guy because they thought he was better for the job and AFAIK are going to offer it to him this week.

Once I went to an interview. The first time my car broke down and I had to phone to explain. They let me re arrange, and I got lost on the way, had to phone for directions and arrived about twenty mins late. They offered me the job There is hope!

I was ridiculously late for a second interview after I got onto the M6 and the traffic just stopped. After I eventually got there, the disc for my presentation wouldn't work and the handouts I'd printed out had the company logo in the wrong colour as the red ink cartridge had run out.

The following day they offered me the job - apparently they'd been really impressed at how well I'd cope with everything going wrong.

I was about 30 minutes late for an interview once even after leaving the house to arrive 30 minutes early. Traffic was a total b!tch, unusually so. I called ahead, maybe 15 minutes before my time slot to let them know. They were very good about it. I arrived half an hour late, drenched from the rain too and had to walk straight into the interview room. It went ok but I wasn't that focussed. At the end of the interview they did commend me for even thinking to call them to let them know and said it showed initiative and that I took the day seriously. Got the job too ?. Interviewers are only human (or so I've been reliably informed), they do know that life happens.

Good luck. Let us know when you hear?