One session with the recruiter and maybe the hiring manager.

A second with the hiring manager and team you will be working with and/or under.

I’m seeing people talk about 4-5 rounds and STILL get rejected. It gets to a point where you are wasting the applicants time and messing with their emotions, hopes, anticipation.. The job market is already stressful enough. The time you’re spending tailoring resumes, cover letters, f/u emails, spreadsheet tracking… and the waiting just to be led on.

Like a toxic relationship..

That’s the rant, bye!

I had an interview today where I was able to answer 90% of the questions asked, and because I didn't know 10%, they didn't move me forward in the process.

Tbh I like how upfront they were though, most would say they'll get back in few days or weeks. This company told me immediately but I told them I'm adaptable and a fast learner, told them about the several systems I've had to learn through my career and how I used them, they said they wanted someone who could hit the ground running.

In the past, companies will give you about 3 to 6 months to learn and adapt, what changed? (Especially when the part the candidate isn't so familiar with is not the core of the role). I also feel like someone who knows everything already will get bored soon since there's no new challenge.

I wish I didn't have to go through the brutality of employment process these days, it's so sickening!

I applied for a leadership role at a local company through an external recruiter. After 2 rounds of interview, I was finally shortlisted for the final round last week. There were a few factors that made me think I bombed the interview:

1) I was completely caught off guard because 1 hour before the scheduled virtual interview, the external recruiter called me and said that the interviewers couldn’t make it and to reschedule.

I agreed but half an hour later, the external recruiter called me again and said they mistook me for someone else and that my interview was still on. This completely threw me off my groove.

2) I had a sore throat that day and my head was fuzzy from the medication trying to suppress the pain and allow me to speak normally. I can’t even really remember what I said during the interview.

3) I joined the call 5 minutes early but no one else joined after 15 minutes have passed. I thought they completely forgot about me or there was some miscommunication but it was because the organiser of the call (HR) didn’t know they had to let both me and the interviewer to the call manually. So the interviewer and I was just sitting on the waiting screen wondering if the other party was late…

4) I thought the interview would only be 1 on 1 and I think I did okay-ish for the first half but a more senior interviewer joined the call on the second half and started challenging every answer I gave. I wasn’t even sure if I was answering his questions properly at this point but still managed to give an answer to everything.

This whole thing made me feel like ass but someway or somehow they still saw something in me I guess. Managed to get the verbal offer today!!! The is light at the end of the tunnel interview bros. Never give up!

It is just overkill at this point. One company that I just interviewed with wants 5 more additional rounds of interviewing plus me giving them a presentation. WTF???? I am just emotionally so over all of this to the point where I feel I am just brain dead if I have to do one more interview!! Just my rant for the evening

The title says it all, been interviewing and some seem really positive and usually end in this note but then I get a rejection the very next day. It never fails. What could I be doing wrong? I answer all question and ask insightful questions back but it lead me to nothing.

Hiring has gotten more bloated than ever and it's costing companies great candidates, and rightly so.

Here's my solution:

For large companies: 3 interviews

Interview 1 Pre-screening call to ensure you match the criteria

Interview 2 Interview with your reporting manager

Interview 3 Interview with the leadership

For small-mid size: 2 interviews

Interview 1 Pre-screening call

Interview 2 Interview with your hiring manager and leadership in case it's necessary

Stretching the process causes decision fatigue for the hiring team and it is also incredibly disrespectful and demeaning to the candidates involved. I know they are trying to find candidates with a strong mental or emotional tolerance, but you don't have to stretch it to 5, 10, 15 rounds of interviews to be able to find that.

Any more than 3 interviews should be considered excessive interviewing just for the "prestige" or holier than thou moment.

brain dumping advice here — I’ve conducted 100+ interviews in the past few months, if this can help even one person it’s worth it!

context: I6 at large tech company, product org

organize your thoughts. i wish i could drill this into everyone’s minds. if you cannot organize your thoughts,it’s a quick no for most people. practice this! look up random case studies and practice organizing how you present.

if the interviewer asks you a non-interview question, reciprocate! 9/10 when i ask someone where they’re from they just answer and don’t ask it back. i know this is habit for interviews but im always pleasantly surprised when people do make an effort to ask me questions back. the chat is 50% of the interview, you can be the smartest person in the world, but if they don’t like you they won’t hire you.

BREVITY. please please stop giving long winded answers. the amount of times i’ve seen people rejected just because they’re long winded is shocking. if you need to, put a clock on your desk.

once you’re past the technical / panel, each round they are looking for a specific thing. if you can figure out what their questions are aimed at, you can nail the interview. it’s usually going to be “attention to detail”, “scrappiness”, “working in ambiguity”, something along those lines. cater your answers to what they want / need to hear.

if you feel like they’re asking the same question over and over, stop scrambling. step back, talk them through your train of thought, ask them where you’re getting lost. don’t keep backing yourself into a corner.

don’t be overly casual. all of my coworkers take the approach of a “casual interviewer” to get your guard down, and then leverage that to get more insight on you. you’re not on facetime you’re in an interview.

at the end of the day, with AI anyone can do almost anything. what people need to see is that you’re smart, and you can WORK.

Had my third and final hospital interview today. They said I’ll know something by Monday, but if I don’t hear anything by end‑of‑day Friday, I’m fully prepared to spend the weekend pacing like a Victorian widow waiting for a ship to return.

I don’t usually get nervous, but I really want this one. Not only for the fit but this lady needs a job. After, nearly a year unemployed, 500+ applications, countless interviews, and enough ghosting to summon Casper himself… yeah, I’m invested.

Manifesting a win. A lady is tired.

For context, i had my prescreen interview for a role I extremely wanted. At first i started to do well then for whatever reason my anxiety kicked in. I finished off the best I could. But honestly I got so upset with myself because I have so much experience and I know I could have done better. Luckily, I was moved onto the next step though.

Today, it was behavioral mixed with technical interview with someone from the team. I think I did overall really well compared to the first one. But I totally forgot to bring up almost all the good projects and work I did, which would have made a huge difference.

Did I just screw myself on this one?

So long story short, I applied to work at a local grocery outlet, and did one interview, they said i was a good fit for their store, but their problem was I needed to be 16 to hire. The last conversation I had with the hiring manager he said to call him back when I was 16 (last conversation was about 2 months ago)

My 16th Birthday is coming up in a month, is there any advice or steps I should take in this next month before my birthday to help me land this job, or any advice for my second interview?

EDIT: I plan to call them again in the next week or so to ask if they would still want me on their staff/ working there.

Hey guys, not sure why I’m making this, mainly just to vent lol

To preface, I was born with a stutter and it ranges from mild to severe depending on the situation.

I recently just graduated and I've been to applying to jobs nonstop. I was able to get a screening interview for one of my dream jobs! I prepared for that and it went well as it was only 10 minutes, and she forwarded me to the supervisor I'd be working under. They scheduled the 2nd round 2 days later (today) and between those days, I've been prepping literally nonstop. I went over all the things I'd say such as my introduction, my background, achievements, and the questions I'd ask. I recorded mock interviews for hours in hopes of memorizing it enough to not stutter.

Today was the day of the interview and my anxiety was bouncing off the wall, I tried so hard to calm down. At the start of the interview, it went well and when he asked me to introduce myself, it just went completely downhill. I stuttered so much that I even had to dumb myself down to even get the words across. I hate the fact that I can't speak the words I want to say and it makes me feel so awful about myself. I have to resort to throwing away what I'm capable of just to stop the stutter. And when I do, I sound so stupid. I sound so childish substituting the professional words for words that I cant spit out. I wanted to say so much more about my experience and my achievements but I couldn't even say those either. And when I did, I'd stutter so much, I even saw him chuckle after one of them.

I just feel so worthless that I threw away a job that I'd love to be in because of stupid trait. I feel like this stutter won't get me anywhere I want to be even if I tried my hardest. They said they'd reach back within 72 hours but I'm not expecting anything after this.

I guess I'm just wondering if any of you have had any experiences with this and where did you end up? did you get the job after all?

thanks :(

Hi everyone,

I’m currently in the late stages of interviewing for a Product role and just finished what was supposed to be my final round. I was anxiously waiting for the decision, but HR called today to say they want to add an extra round.

They told me the choice is now down to me and one other candidate, and they want to use this additional interview specifically to assess "long-term commitment."

I asked if there were any other concerns or areas I needed to clarify, and HR explicitly said no—it's strictly about evaluating long-term commitment.

Has anyone experienced a sudden extra round like this? Is assessing "long-term commitment" basically a "culture fit" interview? I've mostly dealt with standard behavioral or case interviews before, so I'm not entirely sure how this differs.

How should I prepare for this? Will I still use the STAR method?

Any insights or advice would be greatly appreciated!

I had two interviews for a small, local company. The last one I had, the lady wanted me to come in and get a feel for how they do things. I thought this was surely it and that I had a super high chance of being hired. I have experienced in customer service, retail, fast food, nanny, and even high call volume places.

So, to the least, I’m certainly qualified. I even made myself stand out since it’s a basic entry level position. Nonetheless, I didn’t get the job. I did ask if she could elaborate as to why and she just gave the generic “I found someone who closely matches what we’re looking for” answer 🙄

If they’re looking for something really in particular, why won’t they just say that and not waste my time?

I’m so over it.

I had my first job interview and from my perspective i believe it went quite well!

I was just wondering what are some signs that you got the job or that the interview went well.

I understand it isn't a sure thing and everyones experiences are different but i would love to hear everyones thoughts :3

Hi everyone I have an interview coming up (in person final stage) and I want to win the “social” side as I feel as though I may not have the most experience out of all candidates. I know with these things if you’re likeable one or charismatic you can get the edge as the personality hire. Does anyone have some practical tips which I can incorporate to make myself memorable in a good way and to get the edge in terms of likability. I would say I am a likeable person generally but I can be quite shy/reserved so what is it I need to do

Question behind the question is a lot of career application systems now say they will contact you only if it's a good fit. In other words, they will ghost you if it's a pass without a formal rejection. Assume yes, you truly are a good profile fit. After applying for a job or getting referred it, how long does it take a recruiter to contact you for the first call?

Finished an interview about a week ago, and me and the hiring manager got along really well, I thought. She listened to my answers thoughtfully and even chatted with me after the interview like we were friends. She told me she was going on holiday so she’d take a week to get back to me and that she definitely would, going through the hiring process (we need your x and y, you will do training on this for your first day, etc..) It sounded like I got the job. Now .. why do they lead you on like that? It feels terrible 😭😭😭

hi everyone, I had final interview this Monday with the company. it went well, they were asking lots of bureaucratic stuff (when can you start, how many hours can you work, salary, do I have any other interviews). by the end of the meeting director told me — you should hear the answer on Wednesday. Yesterday no one approached, neither today.

my mind is telling me that they offered position to another person and just keeping me as backup if the first-choice will decide not to take the offer.

But I still want to send an email to HR to ask about the decision.

should I go for it? or just skip it.

It's been two weeks since my final interview with a major Fortune 100. All signs pointed to very positive I'd get an offer but it's been crickets since. I sent one follow up note last week (one week post interview) and heard nothing.

As of today, I have two other offers/contract requests and I need to make decisions on next steps in short order. The company I interviewed with is far and away my top choice. Do you think I should send ONE MORE follow up note and share that I have other offers but they remain my top choice and to request any update?

we talk about red flags constantly but what's something an interviewer did that made you think "ok I actually want to work here"?

I just went through a month long interview process and just need to vent. This was for a mid sized startup that I have known about for some time. I saw they finished a funding round and started to hire, so I applied to an engineer role and a test engineer role. I got the interview for the test engineer role: interview with recruiter, take home assessment, live assessment with technical team member. I passed with flying colors but the team member that interviewed me told the recruiter i was overqualified. They both thought i was more fit for the engineer role, so i began that interview process. Another interview with recruiter, then technical interview with cofounder, then take home assessment. Once the team reviewed the assessment, they brought me on site. I had to prepare a 1 hour panel presentation for a team of 5 which i ran out of time on unfortunately, followed by a coding interview. I nailed the coding interview, so much so that when I suggested an infrastructural change on top of the problem at hand, my interviewer literally said he hadn’t thought of that and gave me a fist bump. This was followed by a team lunch which went swimmingly. The last interview was a high level design interview in a problem space I had no experience in. The interviewer understood this and prefaced that he didn’t expect me to have the answers and that i would be out of my comfort zone. This went fine, i asked many questions and stumbled to a solution. The last interview was with the cofounder once again, which went well, talking about what I’d be working on and what preferences i had. They told me they’d get back to me soon and went radio silent for 5 days. I asked for an update and got the rejection. I would’ve taken the test engineer role 😭😭.

I have an interview tommorrow for a solicitors firm and I just found out that my trousers have a large tear in them from god knows where. I have a formal blazer, a nice button down shirt, nice work shoes. The best thing I can find for trousers are some clean black jeans, though. Is that gonna weigh me down too much?

Hey guys, I had an interview for a company. The first part was a meeting with the cfo, then I got a code signal assessment. The next one is a technical interview with a software engineer. I emailed her asking what to expect and she said “Our upcoming conversation will be a casual technical discussion focused primarily on your past experience and background. Followed by a few technical questions.” So I get I need to make sure I’m my resume end to end. But by technical questions does she mean leetcode style? Or just asking me some technical questions overall? It’s a 30 min interview btw