Well, that didn't go well
Nov. 21st, 2005 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperHad my second phone interview with Google this morning, but I am not happy with how it went. It turned out to be one of those interviews that was all quiz, pretty much--and what really kicked me in the head was the interviewer spending a huge chunk of time on an area that I hadn't really had much cause to work with in my experience so far, i.e., international character sets. They just haven't come up. I tried to kludge my way through it, but it just did not go well. Bleah.
I am dubious at this point that Google will be interested in that face-to-face interview after all. Certainly if that phone interview I just had was the only one I'd given, and I was the one making the decision, I wouldn't bring me in. All I can do now is hope that they'll balance it against the good phone interview I had before, and that the good interview and my resume will still sound interesting enough that they'll decide to bring me on in.
Guh. I hate the whole interviewing process, I really do. It's very tiring to me--especially when the interview is all answer-this-question style and nothing in the way of opportunity to let me talk about my work experience and my strong points. And you can't demonstrate what kind of ability you have to pick up new information and run with it, a trait that has been identified repeatedly as one of my strongest in a work environment, in an interview.
I've been able to work off some of the stress of this experience by having a treadmill workout. Hopefully I can work off more of it by making some progress on the book.
Monday miles: 2.4 (treadmill)
Miles out of Hobbiton: 503.35
Miles out of Rivendell: 45.35
Miles to Lothlórien: 416.65
I am dubious at this point that Google will be interested in that face-to-face interview after all. Certainly if that phone interview I just had was the only one I'd given, and I was the one making the decision, I wouldn't bring me in. All I can do now is hope that they'll balance it against the good phone interview I had before, and that the good interview and my resume will still sound interesting enough that they'll decide to bring me on in.
Guh. I hate the whole interviewing process, I really do. It's very tiring to me--especially when the interview is all answer-this-question style and nothing in the way of opportunity to let me talk about my work experience and my strong points. And you can't demonstrate what kind of ability you have to pick up new information and run with it, a trait that has been identified repeatedly as one of my strongest in a work environment, in an interview.
I've been able to work off some of the stress of this experience by having a treadmill workout. Hopefully I can work off more of it by making some progress on the book.
Monday miles: 2.4 (treadmill)
Miles out of Hobbiton: 503.35
Miles out of Rivendell: 45.35
Miles to Lothlórien: 416.65
