One was at a startup - I arrived early and no one was in the main office. I could overhear everyone was in a meeting in one of the adjacent rooms, so I took a seat near the entrance and waited. A few minutes passed and I overheard them mention that I was late, so I got up, stood in the doorway and clarified I had actually been here waiting. Super awk and great way to start an interview, lol. Then during the actual interview, the interviewer actually put his feet up on the desk during the whole interview. Needless to say, I did not pursue that opportunity further.
Another was for a panel interview. I walked into a room of 6 or 7 people sitting around a table and they instructed me to take a seat, handed me a list of questions, and said they would get started. Then they went around the room, each person asking one question robotically, with no feedback, conversation, or anything. It felt very impersonal and it was quite stressful... ahh interviews.
I will say, interviews are a great insight into what your actual experience would be like with that org/company. They've helped teach me that they're just as much about you interviewing them and finding the right mutual fit. :)
In-person it was my first ever interview right after finishing Masters. The interview was in a luxury hotel (for some reason) and I was waiting in the hall inside along with other candidates. I could see others go into a room in the middle of the hallway and come out after half an hour or so. I went in, it was a very tiny, suffocating room with a chair for me and there was a board of 4-5 interviewers sitting across the desk from me and they asked me specific questions I had no answers to. Many awkward silences when I couldn't answer back then as they creeped the hell out of me by asking questions in very harsh tones. As it went, I was walking out of the hotel with total embarrassment on my first ever interview in a city I had been to only for this reason!
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One was at a startup - I arrived early and no one was in the main office. I could overhear everyone was in a meeting in one of the adjacent rooms, so I took a seat near the entrance and waited. A few minutes passed and I overheard them mention that I was late, so I got up, stood in the doorway and clarified I had actually been here waiting. Super awk and great way to start an interview, lol. Then during the actual interview, the interviewer actually put his feet up on the desk during the whole interview. Needless to say, I did not pursue that opportunity further.
Another was for a panel interview. I walked into a room of 6 or 7 people sitting around a table and they instructed me to take a seat, handed me a list of questions, and said they would get started. Then they went around the room, each person asking one question robotically, with no feedback, conversation, or anything. It felt very impersonal and it was quite stressful... ahh interviews.
I will say, interviews are a great insight into what your actual experience would be like with that org/company. They've helped teach me that they're just as much about you interviewing them and finding the right mutual fit. :)
In-person it was my first ever interview right after finishing Masters. The interview was in a luxury hotel (for some reason) and I was waiting in the hall inside along with other candidates. I could see others go into a room in the middle of the hallway and come out after half an hour or so. I went in, it was a very tiny, suffocating room with a chair for me and there was a board of 4-5 interviewers sitting across the desk from me and they asked me specific questions I had no answers to. Many awkward silences when I couldn't answer back then as they creeped the hell out of me by asking questions in very harsh tones. As it went, I was walking out of the hotel with total embarrassment on my first ever interview in a city I had been to only for this reason!