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> portray the best you and get out Very true. But I contend that I did not portray the best me. And that is a valuable lesson. This essay is not about the job
by braythwayt 11y ago
> portray the best you and get out
Very true. But I contend that I did not portray the best me. And that is a valuable lesson. This essay is not about the job I didn't get, it's about the lesson I learned about myself.
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoCan you be sure you would have been given the job if you had portrayed your best you? It's possible you simply dodged a bullet. Maybe this company misclassified a valuable resource, and (for all anyone knows) hired someone less able instead. Given your practical background, why did no one ask for practical examples? I agree with the general point - interviews are really about proving you can save time and make money, and everything else is a warm-up. But still - the hiring process is notoriously unreliable, and it's going to be interesting to see where this start-up is a few years from now.
- braythwayt 11y agoThis was more than ten years ago. I'd like to point out that they did ask specific questions, I was just enamored of generalizing at that point in my life, and treated every specific question as an invitation to generalize.