I had been working for about a year and a half and I was looking for a new job. I show up at the company at the appointed time. When I'm at the door of the building I ring through the intercom and say that I'm there. They tell me to wait. They don't let me in, I'm supposed to wait outside, apparently. Older me would have left on the spot, but this was younger me, naiv and ignorant of how a good place to work looks like.
I have been waiting at the door fifteen minutes now. I know because I've just looked at my watch, and I decide that if they don't let me in in five minutes I'm going home. Two or three minutes later, as I'm getting ready to leave, the door finally opens.
I politely go in and get ready for the interview, but I've already decided that I don't want to work here.
The interview itself was pretty standard, with someone from HR. They ask me a bit about my experience, what kind of tech I want to work with, and so on. Then they ask me if I work well under pressure. Now, younger me is still very naiv, but younger me has been working in a poorly managed project where overtime was the norm and knows what "working well under pressure" is all about. I answer that I will stay overtime when production breaks, but that I value my free time and I don't feel particularly compelled to compensate lack of proper planning with unpaid overtime. The interview ends shortly after. I never hear from them again and I live happily ever after.
Great response! One thing that I have noticed in most of the place that I had gone for an interview is that they think they are making you a favor by giving you the opportuninty to work with them, when actually, at the end of the day is like a transaction where each one exchange some kind of value for another kind of value.
That's why I always like to ask to the recruiters when they're done making questions, something like: "What are the benefits you think an collaborator will have working in your company?"
Is in our hands to let the recruiters know that they also need us (Of course, you have to show the value you represent), and that's why they contacted you.
I had been working for about a year and a half and I was looking for a new job. I show up at the company at the appointed time. When I'm at the door of the building I ring through the intercom and say that I'm there. They tell me to wait. They don't let me in, I'm supposed to wait outside, apparently. Older me would have left on the spot, but this was younger me, naiv and ignorant of how a good place to work looks like.
I have been waiting at the door fifteen minutes now. I know because I've just looked at my watch, and I decide that if they don't let me in in five minutes I'm going home. Two or three minutes later, as I'm getting ready to leave, the door finally opens.
I politely go in and get ready for the interview, but I've already decided that I don't want to work here.
The interview itself was pretty standard, with someone from HR. They ask me a bit about my experience, what kind of tech I want to work with, and so on. Then they ask me if I work well under pressure. Now, younger me is still very naiv, but younger me has been working in a poorly managed project where overtime was the norm and knows what "working well under pressure" is all about. I answer that I will stay overtime when production breaks, but that I value my free time and I don't feel particularly compelled to compensate lack of proper planning with unpaid overtime. The interview ends shortly after. I never hear from them again and I live happily ever after.
nice man 👍😂
"...I don't feel particularly compelled to compensate lack of proper planning with unpaid overtime..."
Glad I am not the only one to feel this way.
Great response! One thing that I have noticed in most of the place that I had gone for an interview is that they think they are making you a favor by giving you the opportuninty to work with them, when actually, at the end of the day is like a transaction where each one exchange some kind of value for another kind of value.
That's why I always like to ask to the recruiters when they're done making questions, something like: "What are the benefits you think an collaborator will have working in your company?"
Is in our hands to let the recruiters know that they also need us (Of course, you have to show the value you represent), and that's why they contacted you.
I love your response to the pressure question!
Thank you! I'm very proud of it and it's been my answer to that question ever since, haha.