I've had a couple of bad interviews. I don't think I interview particularly well.
The most recent was doing iOS work for a guy I was a peer with at another company. We had lunch to talk about it, and everything was a go.
All I had to do was come into the office to meet the team. This was just a formality.
I spent the entire day there. I was going to have 4 or 5 interviews. The first was with a manager from another team. We'll call him "Steve" (because that's his name). Right off the bat, I could tell this guy didn't like me. I offered a copy of my resume, and he brashly said "oh, I've seen it already". We talked about some stuff I had been working on, but he was obviously very agitated, and he was short with me.
I had a nice walk around the building with another guy. He was going to be a peer on the same team. Very nice way to do an interview. We just chatted about technologies.
I met with a higher level boss and that went ok.
Then, I had to fill out this sort of essay question thing asking what I would do in several situations. This was to prepare me for a group interview with several people including the three I had already had a one-on-one with.
The group interview was about six people versus me. Steve hammered me. He was asking questions about UX and design, and I tried my best to field them, but they weren't really in my area of expertise. I left that interview feeling bruised and like all of the energy had been sucked out of me.
Eventually, I got a rejection email saying I wasn't the right fit or something.
What I later learned was Steve wanted to fill the role with a UX expert, and I got caught in a battle of managers' wills.
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I've had a couple of bad interviews. I don't think I interview particularly well.
The most recent was doing iOS work for a guy I was a peer with at another company. We had lunch to talk about it, and everything was a go.
All I had to do was come into the office to meet the team. This was just a formality.
I spent the entire day there. I was going to have 4 or 5 interviews. The first was with a manager from another team. We'll call him "Steve" (because that's his name). Right off the bat, I could tell this guy didn't like me. I offered a copy of my resume, and he brashly said "oh, I've seen it already". We talked about some stuff I had been working on, but he was obviously very agitated, and he was short with me.
I had a nice walk around the building with another guy. He was going to be a peer on the same team. Very nice way to do an interview. We just chatted about technologies.
I met with a higher level boss and that went ok.
Then, I had to fill out this sort of essay question thing asking what I would do in several situations. This was to prepare me for a group interview with several people including the three I had already had a one-on-one with.
The group interview was about six people versus me. Steve hammered me. He was asking questions about UX and design, and I tried my best to field them, but they weren't really in my area of expertise. I left that interview feeling bruised and like all of the energy had been sucked out of me.
Eventually, I got a rejection email saying I wasn't the right fit or something.
What I later learned was Steve wanted to fill the role with a UX expert, and I got caught in a battle of managers' wills.