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Over the years, studies have shown that traditional unstructured interviews do a bad job at predicting job performance.—David Pickard, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025 While Bailey does a happy dance, the men do a bad job hiding their nerves.—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 6 June 2025 In politics, democratic governments derive their legitimacy from the fact voters can eject those who do a bad job.—TIME, 5 Feb. 2024 In my opinion, tests do a bad job of measuring how somebody will grow into a job, so wherever possible, my team and I don't use them.—Vijay Sundaram, Forbes, 14 June 2021 Police, Jai believes, do a bad job of getting out their good stories, and a bad job of communicating when a tragedy happens.—Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021 In fact, the best way to keep the scales from becoming entirely resistant to pesticides was, paradoxically, to do a bad job of applying those herbicides.—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2010
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