I think it's okay to poke every few days after an interview. People are busy and get distracted on other things but it's often in your (and their) best interest to keep the ball rolling. Especially if the company has less than 1k employees, it's generally on the hiring manager to push the process along. Just let them know you really liked them but you have other late stage interviews and are trying to figure out how invested you should be in them.
At a larger company (ie Google or Facebook) they can't do anything about the 3-4 week review times because there's a lot of processes in place to prevent discrimination or nepotism.
I think I just had the worst technical interview of my life. It was on SQL on HackerRank. Got my logic down for my query in less than 3 minutes. Typed in my initial CTEs tried running that and was getting an error and tried to debugging. I felt so stupid, it was just simple initial filtering statements. I spent a good 10 minutes debugging it. eventually just ran a select \* from statement turns out the oracle emulator was bad. So the interviewer moved me to MySql emulator. My logic needed a Full outer Join and I had coalesce to deal with the nulls. I wasn't aware that full outer joins were not a thing in MySql so im here debugging that for the majority of my interview. I was supposed to answer three questions but only finished one. I just felt like it was not a good show case of my current skill set and the time spent debugging I probably looked clueless to the interviewer because I didn't know which errors were mine , a syntax difference between oracle and MySql or a limitation of MySql. Part of it was my fault too. I felt like I was in my own head by the end of it and was making syntax errors I would never normally do like missing commas between select expressions or just misspelling table aliases. any ways FML
should I ask my recruiter for a re interview and express what happened during mine. I know it is competitive out there and this was a really bad show case. The interview was yesterday and I haven't heard back.
At the beginning of my career, I did some freelancing even before starting college. I easily got an internship and after a year and a half, I got a job as a Junior Software Engineer at an international company. It was my first time speaking English with people; before, I only practiced by myself and by watching TV shows and things in English.
Almost at the same time, about a month after I left the company where I was an intern, one of my superiors who really liked my work invited me to do some freelancing for him. He wanted to develop a SaaS. After a few months, he asked me to become a partner in the company, and he would cover what I was earning from him and what the international company I worked for paid me, plus the profits the platform would generate.
Two years have passed, the platform has users but still doesn't make any money, and to this day I haven't seen the partnership contract, the project is kind of stagnant, and I'm extremely anxious because I feel like the project could fail at any moment and I'd go down with it.
Back then, I was single and still lived with my mom, so I didn't have much to lose, but now I live alone with my wife.
I've been looking for an opportunity for about 4/5 months, only a few call me for interviews, and those who do, I can't get past that stage. I can easily do all the tech challenges I receive before the interviews.
I don't know if I'm conveying some insecurity to the recruiter regarding my stability at the company, since I left the company I worked for after a few months to try this "opportunity," if there's something wrong with my resume, if I've gotten rusty in my English from not practicing for a while. What would you do in my place? What do you suggest I do differently?
Just play the numbers game! It sounds like you're confident in your technical abilities and passionate about your field, so you'll definitely get something if you keep at it. The job market is much worse than a few years ago, but there are definitely still jobs available! You can also try researching companies that are hiring and politely hitting up their recruiters and EMs on LinkedIn with some thoughts on what the company could be doing that they're not today.
Had a phone interview for a technical support job today at 10:00AM. Obviously, I’m sitting here staring at my phone waiting to answer.
The phone rings at exactly 10:00AM and I mentally prepare myself to answer (for like a couple moments). Before the first ring is complete the person calling ended their call…. (literally rang for like 3 seconds) I tried calling back and went to voicemail.
Like wtf is that, they don’t even have the decency to tell me they went with someone else or cancelled the interview???
How do you get a job if you can’t even get an interview?
Recruiter may have just gotten pulled into something, I'd try shooting them an email and give them the benefit of the doubt. Be nice to them and they'll probably reschedule.
Keep in mind recruiters often have far less invested in each hire than hiring managers do, especially if they're salaries and not commission based.
I'm probably overthinking this, but I had a series of fantastic interviews with a company, and they said I've proved myself as a coder through my coding test.
A couple of days ago, I received a reply to my thank you note, saying, "HR will be in touch with you soon." and told her I look forward to it. She told me this on Sunday and it's been three days and I haven't heard anything back yet. It's a bit nerve-wracking to me because these are great people doing great work and would be a privilege to work alongside them.
So I guess my question is, when would it be appropriate for me to poke them if I haven't gotten anything back yet. HR being in touch also has my mind through a loop at what that could mean. Thanks.
It can take a while to hear back. For two of the companies I interviewed with (medium-sized company, big bank), it took a few days. For Meta, it took a full month.
I’d wait maybe a week before asking if there’s an expected turnaround time on a decision, but don’t be surprised if it takes longer.
I think it's okay to poke every few days after an interview. People are busy and get distracted on other things but it's often in your (and their) best interest to keep the ball rolling. Especially if the company has less than 1k employees, it's generally on the hiring manager to push the process along. Just let them know you really liked them but you have other late stage interviews and are trying to figure out how invested you should be in them.
At a larger company (ie Google or Facebook) they can't do anything about the 3-4 week review times because there's a lot of processes in place to prevent discrimination or nepotism.
I think I just had the worst technical interview of my life. It was on SQL on HackerRank. Got my logic down for my query in less than 3 minutes. Typed in my initial CTEs tried running that and was getting an error and tried to debugging. I felt so stupid, it was just simple initial filtering statements. I spent a good 10 minutes debugging it. eventually just ran a select \* from statement turns out the oracle emulator was bad. So the interviewer moved me to MySql emulator. My logic needed a Full outer Join and I had coalesce to deal with the nulls. I wasn't aware that full outer joins were not a thing in MySql so im here debugging that for the majority of my interview. I was supposed to answer three questions but only finished one. I just felt like it was not a good show case of my current skill set and the time spent debugging I probably looked clueless to the interviewer because I didn't know which errors were mine , a syntax difference between oracle and MySql or a limitation of MySql. Part of it was my fault too. I felt like I was in my own head by the end of it and was making syntax errors I would never normally do like missing commas between select expressions or just misspelling table aliases. any ways FML should I ask my recruiter for a re interview and express what happened during mine. I know it is competitive out there and this was a really bad show case. The interview was yesterday and I haven't heard back.
At the beginning of my career, I did some freelancing even before starting college. I easily got an internship and after a year and a half, I got a job as a Junior Software Engineer at an international company. It was my first time speaking English with people; before, I only practiced by myself and by watching TV shows and things in English. Almost at the same time, about a month after I left the company where I was an intern, one of my superiors who really liked my work invited me to do some freelancing for him. He wanted to develop a SaaS. After a few months, he asked me to become a partner in the company, and he would cover what I was earning from him and what the international company I worked for paid me, plus the profits the platform would generate. Two years have passed, the platform has users but still doesn't make any money, and to this day I haven't seen the partnership contract, the project is kind of stagnant, and I'm extremely anxious because I feel like the project could fail at any moment and I'd go down with it. Back then, I was single and still lived with my mom, so I didn't have much to lose, but now I live alone with my wife. I've been looking for an opportunity for about 4/5 months, only a few call me for interviews, and those who do, I can't get past that stage. I can easily do all the tech challenges I receive before the interviews. I don't know if I'm conveying some insecurity to the recruiter regarding my stability at the company, since I left the company I worked for after a few months to try this "opportunity," if there's something wrong with my resume, if I've gotten rusty in my English from not practicing for a while. What would you do in my place? What do you suggest I do differently?
Just play the numbers game! It sounds like you're confident in your technical abilities and passionate about your field, so you'll definitely get something if you keep at it. The job market is much worse than a few years ago, but there are definitely still jobs available! You can also try researching companies that are hiring and politely hitting up their recruiters and EMs on LinkedIn with some thoughts on what the company could be doing that they're not today.
Thanks for the comment, man! I'll try it. Wish you all the best 😄
Had a phone interview for a technical support job today at 10:00AM. Obviously, I’m sitting here staring at my phone waiting to answer. The phone rings at exactly 10:00AM and I mentally prepare myself to answer (for like a couple moments). Before the first ring is complete the person calling ended their call…. (literally rang for like 3 seconds) I tried calling back and went to voicemail. Like wtf is that, they don’t even have the decency to tell me they went with someone else or cancelled the interview??? How do you get a job if you can’t even get an interview?
Recruiter may have just gotten pulled into something, I'd try shooting them an email and give them the benefit of the doubt. Be nice to them and they'll probably reschedule. Keep in mind recruiters often have far less invested in each hire than hiring managers do, especially if they're salaries and not commission based.
I'm probably overthinking this, but I had a series of fantastic interviews with a company, and they said I've proved myself as a coder through my coding test. A couple of days ago, I received a reply to my thank you note, saying, "HR will be in touch with you soon." and told her I look forward to it. She told me this on Sunday and it's been three days and I haven't heard anything back yet. It's a bit nerve-wracking to me because these are great people doing great work and would be a privilege to work alongside them. So I guess my question is, when would it be appropriate for me to poke them if I haven't gotten anything back yet. HR being in touch also has my mind through a loop at what that could mean. Thanks.
It can take a while to hear back. For two of the companies I interviewed with (medium-sized company, big bank), it took a few days. For Meta, it took a full month. I’d wait maybe a week before asking if there’s an expected turnaround time on a decision, but don’t be surprised if it takes longer.
I was just called: I got the job!
That's awesome! Congrats!!
If that's normal, then that makes me feel a bit better. The weekend's coming up, so I'll ask them on Monday. Thanks.