For my most recent interview, I was required to give a 60 minute presentation on my work experience, previous projects, public contributions, etc. To the entire team I was interviewing for, and was followed up by question and answer. It was definitely the most unique interview I have been through, but I feel it was one of the best. I have a feeling that the interviewing team spent a bit of time researching topics and technology on my resume because I was asked very specific questions regarding individual technologies that I would not expect a normal interviewer to know, much less be able to judge the correctness of my answer. Almost as if they were asking my opinion on how to handle a specific task they were working on. All in all I really preferred the interview over answering quiz questions.
The interview was for a senior-ish software engineering position focused on high performance computing / scientific software. The presentation wasn't as bad as I expected, but the Q/A session was much more specific and informed than any other interview I had been on.
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For my most recent interview, I was required to give a 60 minute presentation on my work experience, previous projects, public contributions, etc. To the entire team I was interviewing for, and was followed up by question and answer. It was definitely the most unique interview I have been through, but I feel it was one of the best. I have a feeling that the interviewing team spent a bit of time researching topics and technology on my resume because I was asked very specific questions regarding individual technologies that I would not expect a normal interviewer to know, much less be able to judge the correctness of my answer. Almost as if they were asking my opinion on how to handle a specific task they were working on. All in all I really preferred the interview over answering quiz questions.
Very interesting. 60 minutes sounds rough though.
Which position were you applying for?
The interview was for a senior-ish software engineering position focused on high performance computing / scientific software. The presentation wasn't as bad as I expected, but the Q/A session was much more specific and informed than any other interview I had been on.