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I interviewed for the superlative job title “Spaceflight systems avionics software engineer”. Contrary to your experience, I found the process to be very casual
by DaiPlusPlus 9y ago
I interviewed for the superlative job title “Spaceflight systems avionics software engineer”. Contrary to your experience, I found the process to be very casual. They told me not to bring my resume, but to put together a PowerPoint presentation about my life. For one of my interviews the interviewing engineer didn’t even show up and his boss came in later and said (paraphrased): “you made it this far so I guess you’re good enough” and had me go see the next interviewer. It did take them 2 weeks to get back to me with the “We want to make you an offer”-call.
My biggest surprise was that they were (and I assume still are) running Windows 7 on their dev boxes.
- foota 9y agoImo that doesn't just sound casual, it sounds somewhat dysfunctional.
- shrimp_emoji 9y ago... My resume is terrible, but I'd rather bring it than a PowerPoint presentation about my life even if it was a million times worse.
- tlrobinson 9y ago> but to put together a PowerPoint presentation about my life Wait what? This seems like a big red flag to me.
- DaiPlusPlus 9y agoTo be fair, they already had my resume from earlier-on in the application process.
- shepardrtc 9y agoThey sound like a mess. When an interviewer doesn't even show, that's not a good sign. When this boss says, "I guess you're good enough", that's a worse sign. This is rocket science, after all.