This is so annoying

wow so annoying...
when you are in the interview and they say "impressive resume", and repeat that a few seconds later...
What are they saying... that I am bullshitting a lot?

I mean they get the best applicants anyway, so no one can be that impressive...

Last time that happened I didnt get the job, wonder what is going to happen this time.

Anyone else have little things like this that bother them when interviewing?

 

ladyeva makes sense...everyones impressed with your resume if you got the interview, interview is to see if they are impressed with you as well. so there are only 2 options - not impressed with you/impressed with your resume or impressed with both

 

but unless an interviewer is REALLY impressed with you (as a person), he/she will not directly say "I'm very impressed with you."

How often are you guys so sure about your success in the interview? In my case, in one of the best interviews that I might have ever had, I wasn't sure until the very end whether the interviewer liked me or not.

 

same thing happened with me. I had a phone interview with Citi risk and the guy owned me with some technical questions that I had no idea how to answer. He then told me I had an impressive resume; think he was implying something along the same lines

 
skyblue:
same thing happened with me. I had a phone interview with Citi risk and the guy owned me with some technical questions that I had no idea how to answer. He then told me I had an impressive resume; think he was implying something along the same lines

Did you make claims specific to the kind of Risk questions that he asked? I got owned by my BlackRock interviewer when I said I've Barra to manage portfolio risk.... he nuked me with fresh out the oven risk theories, and I had burn marks all over my mouth...

Funny how I didn't even exaggerate, I told him I used Barra didn't say I designed it.

 
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ive been on both sides of the interviewing table; i had to interview a dozen people for a student group so i have a good idea of their position. things to consider

1) whenever i say things like nice job, or great speaking, or any small thing -- its completely random and doesnt correlate with whether or not i like him/her

2) most of the time 5 minutes into the conversation I know whether or not I want to take who I'm interviewing; there has been cases where i really dont like the guy when i first meet but he mentions a special skill or experience that could help and we take him, but in a more competitive process like SA IB that really won't save you. those 5 minutes, maybe even the first few lines of "Tell me about yourself" are critical

3) Looks did bias our decision with cute vs. not cute girls; for guys it was more how well-spoken/good to talk to they were

4) not sure about IB but for me I always tried to find reasons to take them instead of vice versa; if they arent well spoken ill try to see if they are really smart, have a great story, etc, and push them to saying things that would impress us

5) Thank you letters didn't matter; i skim over them and delete. unless you write something like "FUCK YOU" it wont matter, and little grammar things certainly wont

 

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