An hour and a half after it started, it was over. It took place in a conference room. Five people sat there, eyeing me over, screaming out questions. “How would you rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10– team player? manager? team leader?”
“Let’s say you are ready to close a sale and the competition swoops in and the customer wants to go with the competition and you can’t find the VP and you need to save the sale and you only have 20 minutes, what will you do?” Some of the questions were just plain stupid, some made sense. I tried to answer all of them the best I could. Looking back I performed my best and I can’t think of one thing I wish I had done differently. Regardless, I don’t think they are going to make me an offer and if they do, I will be surprised. We shall see. In a way I hope they don’t make me an offer because I am not sure if I even want the job.
I have another interview tomorrow for a different firm.
This is exactly why I dropped out of the corporate world in September of 2005. I’m looking at a career change. Thanks for reaffirming my very difficult decision. Also, don’t take the job if it’s offered; especially if you were not impressed with their interview technique and style. It is, no doubt, a testament of their corporate environment/climate. If there is one thing that I’ve learned – ‘if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, guess what, it’s a duck.” They sound like quacks.