Ask HN: How do you feel about interviewing process

I’ve been doing a couple of interviews with different companies, and I keep getting more and more frustrated with them.

These last experiences could be categorized into two main types:

First type: Questions that require you to memorize things and go strictly by the book.

Second type: Broad questions where you’re expected to elaborate on a topic with as much knowledge as possible, with little to no follow-up questions from the interviewer.

While these methods aren’t inherently bad—they do give a sense of the person you’re interviewing—they lack what I think is a main ingredient when doing interviews, and that’s having a conversation.

Every interview I’ve done feels more like being interrogated about your knowledge, and if you mess up somewhere, it’s like they write you off as no good.

It makes it devastating to keep applying and having the same experience every time.

To make matters worse, whenever you get rejected, you get a generic-sounding email saying that you didn’t move forward because they picked someone else.

Now, I know no one cares what happens to me, especially after the rejection, but I’d really appreciate it if there was at least some more detailed reason for the rejection since it might be something I can improve on.

Not sure if you’ve faced similar experiences and how you’ve dealt with them.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341619

Points: 1

# Comments: 0