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Just making it to those on-site interviews is an accomplishment in my book. Just because you did not get the job does not mean you didn't gain anything. Use you

by moondev 10y ago

Just making it to those on-site interviews is an accomplishment in my book. Just because you did not get the job does not mean you didn't gain anything. Use your experiences moving forward and you will land somewhere. There are plenty of non-unicorn places that are awesome to work at. Maybe focus on some startups and other places, you don't have to take the job if they offer you. You are just as much interviewing them to see if it's a good fit. The other thing too is the more you interview the more comfortable you are with it. You have already experienced probably the tougher interviews out there. Keep at it and you will land somewhere you love.

samfisher83 10y ago
If you don't get a job I think interviewing is a waste of time. It might be an accomplishment, but you have to waste a a vacation day on not a vacation. A lot of time it is quite unorganized and sometimes the interviewer doesn't even seem interested. I know when i am doing an interview I am prepared and make sure I know exactly how I am going to structure the interview and have read over the persons resume. I can't say the same for the places I have interviewed.
- shaftway 10y ago
  Anything can be a learning opportunity. Maybe what you learned is that the company isn't as professional as you'd hoped.
  - samfisher83 10y ago
    In a 50,000 person company there are way too many people for you to make any kind of generalizations. There is a probably a lot of good people and lot of dicks.
- adrianratnapala 10y ago
  Last time I went to such an interview I got to spend a night in a very good hotel, in a very pretty town that I otherwise wouldn't have visted. I got to take in their summer festival, which I didn't even know was on. And on the next day: I spent few hours talking about about programming to programmers. That done, I wondered about the town some more, eating local food and sipping foreign wine. Damn! What a waste of a holiday.
  - cableshaft 10y ago
    The time I interviewed at Google they flew me in the day before, once I got to my hotel room I had a couple of hours to mentally prepare for the next day before going to bed. The next day I had about five or six hours of the toughest interview problems I have ever encountered and they had to end it a slightly early to make sure I had enough time to get back on the airport and make the flight they had scheduled for me to get back. About the only thing I got to experience besides Silicon Valley traffic was a meal at In-N-Out Burger (which was delicious, like always). I still enjoyed the experience, mind you, and Google campus was really cool to see in person, but that didn't exactly feel like a holiday. I imagine most people's experiences would be more like this and less like your singular holiday-like experience.
    - akhilcacharya 10y ago
      At MS and FB they give you 2 nights if you're on the other coast and reimburse food - MS even gave a sightseeing stipend. This is for intern interviews, at least.

by moondev 10y ago

samfisher83 10y ago

If you don't get a job I think interviewing is a waste of time. It might be an accomplishment, but you have to waste a a vacation day on not a vacation. A lot of time it is quite unorganized and sometimes the interviewer doesn't even seem interested. I know when i am doing an interview I am prepared and make sure I know exactly how I am going to structure the interview and have read over the persons resume. I can't say the same for the places I have interviewed.

shaftway 10y ago
Anything can be a learning opportunity. Maybe what you learned is that the company isn't as professional as you'd hoped.
- samfisher83 10y ago
  In a 50,000 person company there are way too many people for you to make any kind of generalizations. There is a probably a lot of good people and lot of dicks.
adrianratnapala 10y ago
Last time I went to such an interview I got to spend a night in a very good hotel, in a very pretty town that I otherwise wouldn't have visted. I got to take in their summer festival, which I didn't even know was on. And on the next day: I spent few hours talking about about programming to programmers. That done, I wondered about the town some more, eating local food and sipping foreign wine. Damn! What a waste of a holiday.
- cableshaft 10y ago
  The time I interviewed at Google they flew me in the day before, once I got to my hotel room I had a couple of hours to mentally prepare for the next day before going to bed. The next day I had about five or six hours of the toughest interview problems I have ever encountered and they had to end it a slightly early to make sure I had enough time to get back on the airport and make the flight they had scheduled for me to get back. About the only thing I got to experience besides Silicon Valley traffic was a meal at In-N-Out Burger (which was delicious, like always). I still enjoyed the experience, mind you, and Google campus was really cool to see in person, but that didn't exactly feel like a holiday. I imagine most people's experiences would be more like this and less like your singular holiday-like experience.
  - akhilcacharya 10y ago
    At MS and FB they give you 2 nights if you're on the other coast and reimburse food - MS even gave a sightseeing stipend. This is for intern interviews, at least.