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“ha, ha, DH and if you got them thinking how interesting YOU are (having listened to them and said all the uh-huhs in the right place) then touche.”
haha – it’s tough. not good to let an interview totally go off topic, but i find it’s equally as bad to just sit there and get grilled with questions (doesn’t matter how good your answers are)
most interviews are just to see if your a “good fit” for the company, personality wise. if it seems your interviewer is following a script and isn’t really engaged, they prolly aren’t feelin you.
“low heels with pointy toe and maybe they are 1.5 inches so will wear those instead of nice ballet flats.”
Yes, absolutely do not wear ballet flats unless you have an obvious injury and it would be required! Or it’s a really creative type environment where that would be the norm.
What type of company (field) is it, again, that you are interviewing with?
Denton, I emailed you. >>>
Bad Interview:
I walk into the large office of the
Medical School Dean of Admissions.
I take a seat.
The Dean starts out by telling me
that the gentleman who just left the
office and who
just finished his interview,
recently invented a surgical
thread that is getting rave reviews.
It’s all down hill from there. :o(
Skirt & blouse or suit w/ “court shoes” – 2″ or under. That’s the corporate look. Once you get the job you can do the creative look.
Slopey, do you think if you tried harder you could possibly be MORE serious today???
😉
denton, aapl and goog are eating a ton of big firms’ lunches. aapl is making hard push into OS market and that’s one massive pie dominated by msft who is doing shitty job defending itself. everytime I think they’ve ran into the “law of big numbers” earnings-wise, they blow by it and offers up another juicy fcst beyond that earnings. to aapl and goog, their competition’s business is like a vip buffet line to them (ie all they can eat/grab)
“the best interviews i’ve had were the ones where i successfully got the egomaniac across the table to talk the whole time”
Totally agree.
“”The Spanish channels they are gesticulating madly and fighting and kissing.”
Try being married to a Spanish person. Same thing.”
I don’t know about that but it sure applies to the in-laws!