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"...6 people interviewing me serially. That sort of thing is grueling..." This sort of thing is a standard process in many companies - precisely to avoid the s
by ay 15y ago
"...6 people interviewing me serially. That sort of thing is grueling..."
This sort of thing is a standard process in many companies - precisely to avoid the single-person bias mentioned in other post.
Besides, the interviewers (in the properly organized case) are usually one's future coworkers - and if you did not like them maybe working there would not have been a good idea for you to begin with.
"...didn't have much enthusiasm for the next 3 interviews..." - this is your mistake. You should have treated them totally indepentently, and possibly asked the other interviewers about the incorrect question. Chances are they'd corrected that guy during the offline discussion.
"A company that would allow someone with social interaction issues run an interview is very problematic." - not at all. They gave that person a chance to learn. They gave you a chance to preview your future coworkers and make a decision.
I think multi-person interviews are a critical part of getting a good atmosphere in the team.
- thoughtsimple 15y agoWell I guess if your goal is to have me not take the job but to have a "co-worker" learn then they accomplished their goal. If it wasn't that, then having a bad interviewer on his own was a complete waste of my time and of the other 5 people who I interviewed with that day.
- ay 15y agoI only wanted to speculate about possible reasons. Maybe there was something else - does not matter, really. On the other hand, ditching your rounds with the subsequent interviewers just because you became emotional about one of them does materially decrease your chances to get a job - instead of one "bad interview" round feedback you got that one plus all the subsequent ones. This is a sub-optimal strategy. And, arguably, a waste of both your time and the remaining interviewers'.