Had a horrible interview which lasted 3+ hours
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My head is still spinning with the experience I had. The questions itself were not that tricky but it is my mistake, I should have prepared well. :(
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My head is still spinning with the experience I had. The questions itself were not that tricky but it is my mistake, I should have prepared well. :(
Better than no interview at all.
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My head is still spinning with the experience I had. The questions itself were not that tricky but it is my mistake, I should have prepared well. :(
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Or that the interviewers are really bored.
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or, that it's really serious about itself. i've had a few of those 3-hour epic beatdowns. mine have all been in companies which clearly think very highly of themselves and of their people; they want to make sure they've absolutely scoured the candidates in every way they can think of, with every tool at their disposal, because they don't want to take a chance on getting someone who isn't absolutely perfect for their company. which is totally their prerogative, of course. but it sometimes seems that those companies that take themselves and what they do a wee bit too seriously.
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My head is still spinning with the experience I had. The questions itself were not that tricky but it is my mistake, I should have prepared well. :(
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Tomz_KV wrote:
3 hrs may symbolize that the company is serious about you.
Yes - I too agree with that.
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I think the same. It was after so many years that I went for the interview and I was back to basics. Even simple things appeared so tough (now that I think about it I feel so silly). I could have done better - definitely! But as someone said "second chances" are rare.
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My head is still spinning with the experience I had. The questions itself were not that tricky but it is my mistake, I should have prepared well. :(
I don't get the concept of preparing for an interview. I know what i know, i need to learn what I don't yet know, and no last Knute prep will change that or improve how I honestly present myself for a job.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I don't get the concept of preparing for an interview. I know what i know, i need to learn what I don't yet know, and no last Knute prep will change that or improve how I honestly present myself for a job.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Translation: I'm too old and too freaking tired to study up to satisfy some H.R. weenie and some bean counting engineering manager who last designed something when slide rules were in vogue. Let's talk about what I know, what you need done, where the two intersect, and whether or not you have the stones money to hire me.
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I don't get the concept of preparing for an interview. I know what i know, i need to learn what I don't yet know, and no last Knute prep will change that or improve how I honestly present myself for a job.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Learning about the organization and gaining any intel on who you'll be interviewing with is, however, pretty darn handy ...
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Translation: I'm too old and too freaking tired to study up to satisfy some H.R. weenie and some bean counting engineering manager who last designed something when slide rules were in vogue. Let's talk about what I know, what you need done, where the two intersect, and whether or not you have the stones money to hire me.
Software Zen:
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My head is still spinning with the experience I had. The questions itself were not that tricky but it is my mistake, I should have prepared well. :(
I had one of those about three years back. When I came back from the interview, my pubes had grown one inch. It is still much better for the company and the potential employee: [0] The company does not hire a bad employee. (Less waste of time and money) [1] The employee can be sure he won't be fired very quickly.* *Our company hires anyone that comes through the door and then fires them a month later. Sodding management doesn't understand they are not only wasting money but also wasting the career of people who were already earning. Now those poor ex-employees have to find somewhere else to go.
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Learning about the organization and gaining any intel on who you'll be interviewing with is, however, pretty darn handy ...
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That's a prerequisite for any interview. Studying material related to job skills, however, is a waste of time. You can't possibly learn it well enough to impress someone who works with it every day. In fact, it's probably better to flat out tell them "I don't know XYZ", rather than try and fake your way through it with a three day cram session before the interview.
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My head is still spinning with the experience I had. The questions itself were not that tricky but it is my mistake, I should have prepared well. :(
A three hour interview implies either that they have a genuine interest in hiring you, or that their other choice was a mandatory budget meeting in the same time slot. I'd assume the former until proven otherwise... You must have impressed them in some degree. Good work, and good luck! :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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I don't get the concept of preparing for an interview. I know what i know, i need to learn what I don't yet know, and no last Knute prep will change that or improve how I honestly present myself for a job.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I don't get the concept of preparing for an interview. I know what i know, i need to learn what I don't yet know, and no last Knute prep will change that or improve how I honestly present myself for a job.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Agreed. I just prepare for the latest acronyms. "SLA" - Service Level Agreement or Site License Agreement. :laugh: