Comments on: 10 Things I Hate About Interviewing With You

By: Nex

Nex — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 06:21:00 +0000

Which why the whole interview process is fundamentally flawed, because both sides know they are expected to game the whole thing, painting the words “lies”, “half-truths” and “deceptions” all over the place. For most jobs the entire process is also all too disconnected from the actual job requirements, and there exist entire subsets of people who naturally ace or flunk interviews regardless of their work capability. I’m sure as hell won’t let you what my true flaws really are just because you ask me nicely with a smile.

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By: Hakim

Hakim — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:37:00 +0000

Nice article. Don’t agree with you on the test part though. We look for technical skills in our interview process, and we use a simple 4-question test to determine this. Very basic, nothing you’d have to even study for if you have used the technology. Amazing how many people talk the talk, but cannot pass this test. It has turned out to be a very useful tool for us to weed out the technically deficient candidates.

By: Tom R

Tom R — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 04:11:00 +0000

Worst interview: I was interviewing for a job I’d actually been contracting for for the previous 2 years. The interviewer actually fell asleep during the interview, asked me a surprising number of irrelevant (as in TOTALLY not part of the job description, which I knew, since I’d essentially made the job what it was) – and finally I told him, “Unless you have something relevant to the position to ask me, I’m going to go back and actually do what the position requires of me.”
Best interview was on a sidewalk in front of a coffee shop in (where else?) Seattle – and consisted of 2 questions:
1. “Can you do the job or can you learn it?”
2. “Can you do it without pissing people off?”
and I realized that no matter what, that’s what all the other interview questions boil down to.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:52:00 +0000

Sadly, both sides seem to fall under many of these issues.

By: sqlrockstar

sqlrockstar — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:39:36 +0000

In reply to Stephanie B.

I love that sketch. They have another version too, where the man is in the wrong room and is being yelled at…

“Look, I came in here for an argument!”
“Oh, I’m sorry, this is abuse. Arguments are two doors down the hall.”

Brilliant.

By: sqlrockstar

sqlrockstar — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:37:13 +0000

In reply to bhupendra. Thanks! I've always considered he interview to be like a blind date over lunch. Informal, good conversation, just trying to know more about each other.