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> This guy obviously loves interviews. I hate them. I am not going to practice interviews with my friends and have a real interview once a month like he advised
by BossingAround 6y ago
> This guy obviously loves interviews. I hate them. I am not going to practice interviews with my friends and have a real interview once a month like he advised.
You can love or hate interviews, but they are the way to get into a company. If you dream of getting into $BigCo, you better nail your interview.
If you don't care what company you work for as long as you get enough money at the end of the month, that's perfectly fine. No need to practice interviews then.
Personally, while I don't dream of getting into Google, Facebook, or another company with comically high hiring bar, I like self-improvement and if I know I'm bad at interviews, I want to improve just for the sake of it.
I'm sure interviewing skills translate well into other areas, such as public speaking, presentations, demos, sales, pre-sales, ...
- cloverich 6y agoI think that's the actual complaint though -- interview skills get people good at things they don't want to get good at, at the expense of things they do want to get good at. And the things they want to get good at may be, ironically, the actual skills they need for the job they are applying for!