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I interviewed in-person for this company early 2019 and they were very rude. The interview was going fine from my perspective, but they decided to cut the inte

by asow92 4y ago

I interviewed in-person for this company early 2019 and they were very rude. The interview was going fine from my perspective, but they decided to cut the interview short and pass on me mid-interview. This is the only time this has ever happened to me over the course of dozens of interviews in my career.

late2part 4y ago
How were they rude? You must have wasted a lot of your time and the companys you interviewed at if they went all the way through after they realized you weren't going to be hired.
- asow92 4y ago
  One of the interviewers was augmentative and combative in their line of questioning as if they were playing "bad cop". I won't go into details, but I was given a hypothetical engineering situation that just wasn't realistic in my experience and tried to explain why, but they would not take no for an answer.
  - kevinpet 4y ago
    I've been on the other side of it, and your approach can come across as childish, like arguing with your math teacher that billy couldn't have eaten 4/6 or 2/3 of the pizza because he'd get sick. It's a _hypothetical_. The problem needs to be constrained because realistic problems often either 1) have standard answers that don't require real thought or 2) are too hard to solve in an interview. Asking how you'd solve some problem on a CPU that doesn't support multiplication or something shows whether you have skills that could transfer to solving real problems but can be asked more quickly.
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    - asow92 4y ago
      You don't know the specifics, but I can assure you that this JS developer did not know the specifics of the iOS development question at hand. It's easy to purport a sense of theoretical superiority from your side of the table, and answering an unrealistic question doesn't mean that employee will deliver you real value over time. In fact, they may hold you up and waste more of your time because this "yes man" will spend extra time determining what's clearly a waste of time is in fact a waste of time.

by asow92 4y ago

late2part 4y ago

How were they rude? You must have wasted a lot of your time and the companys you interviewed at if they went all the way through after they realized you weren't going to be hired.

asow92 4y ago
One of the interviewers was augmentative and combative in their line of questioning as if they were playing "bad cop". I won't go into details, but I was given a hypothetical engineering situation that just wasn't realistic in my experience and tried to explain why, but they would not take no for an answer.
- kevinpet 4y ago
  I've been on the other side of it, and your approach can come across as childish, like arguing with your math teacher that billy couldn't have eaten 4/6 or 2/3 of the pizza because he'd get sick. It's a _hypothetical_. The problem needs to be constrained because realistic problems often either 1) have standard answers that don't require real thought or 2) are too hard to solve in an interview. Asking how you'd solve some problem on a CPU that doesn't support multiplication or something shows whether you have skills that could transfer to solving real problems but can be asked more quickly.
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  - asow92 4y ago
    You don't know the specifics, but I can assure you that this JS developer did not know the specifics of the iOS development question at hand. It's easy to purport a sense of theoretical superiority from your side of the table, and answering an unrealistic question doesn't mean that employee will deliver you real value over time. In fact, they may hold you up and waste more of your time because this "yes man" will spend extra time determining what's clearly a waste of time is in fact a waste of time.