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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 o

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.

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.