Would a company interview you if they had no intention of hiring you?
I'm winding down this first year of unemployment having been to 10+ interviews and not landing a thing. Some of these interviews I flub the technicals and am dinged obv. Other ones I answer every question right, have good answer for the behaviorals and still get dinged. Any chance these people had no intention of hiring me from the start, or were just going to move me on if a top candidate was a horrible interview? I'm curious why these companies are even bothering to interview me at this point.
Yes. Some places do interview without the intention of hiring. For campus recruiting, it's often to maintain a presence at the school/with the school's career office. Some places also interview and hire opportunistically - wanting to see what kind of talent is 'out there' and keep them in mind for later on when they do plan to hire.
Answering everything "correctly" doesn't mean you get the job. At most superdays there are tons of kids that get everything "right". In some cases you can crush interviews but other people just did better. Other than OCR there's no reason for a company to bring in a candidate that doesn't pass some minimum bar.
It could be a host of reasons. As the previous poster mentioned, if its for SA/FO college recruiting, it might be to maintain presence/relations with the college recruiting office.
If its an experience hire, they might have found one person internally but hiring guidelines require that they interview people outside the company as policy.
Perhaps there are plenty of great candidates and despite the fact you "aced" everything, there might have been a better qualified candidate or a person with more "fit".
Or perhaps the hiring manager had permission for head-count but due to economic uncertainty they have a hiring freeze.
The key is to not get hung up on the "what ifs" and keep fighting.
A lot of it is just dumb luck.
But at the very least you've got to nail the technical/behavioral questions to even get a chance to play.
I would have guessed you would have batted .10. maybe just a bit of bad luck? tell yourself you'll go on ten more before making a conclusion. (little bit of history for you: know how many interviews Rockefeller, Sr. went on before landing a gig? He went to all the firms he found in his native city (Cleveland, OH) and having been rejected by them all he went back to the start of the list and tried them again...one...by....one eventually he found a gig as an assistant bookkeeper- great biography: Titan: The Life Of...)
I had a very similar experience at a recent interview and I ended up getting the job. I wouldn't think too much into it.
just wait it out. i doubt they'd had wanted to just waste time to interview you out of "courtesy"
"best of luck with the process" is so vague haha... it could still mean the process with that firm. Chillax
I've only gotten that response in instances where I moved on to the super day (if after a first round) or gotten an offer (if after the super day). When it turns out that I got dinged, I've never gotten a response. Just a personal observation.
Best of luck, but it definitely happens. Many of the interviews that I received from family referrals were "courtesy" in nature. At least you are getting some face time and building the network. Stay positive.
BBs usually have very formal recruiting processes, it could be very impersonal at times.
I think you're probably reading into it too much. Some people who respond just give generic responses because they're too busy to send something personal but feel like they should at least send an e-mail back. I have done this many times, probably because I've been slowly programmed since I started working to always respond to e-mails quickly.
I've gotten that response to Interview Thank You's both when I was dinged and when I was given an offer. Don't read into it too much.
I wouldn't read anything into this. When I interview incoming analysts, I say this as well- you might end up in a different part of the firm, and I am just one of many people you will talk to. Its a process, and I am wishing you luck, there is nothing to read into it.
That said, mid-2009, in the post lehman era, firms were definitely just interviewing to see what they could get for what price. I went on several interviews where they said "well we aren't really looking to hire right now, but we are thinking about doing so in Q4, and thought you looked good..." Infuriated me a bit, but that's just how things were. In their defense, I wasn't necessarily looking to leave either, but would for a better opportunity.
This happens all the time. Not only with internal referrals, but with schools as well. A lot of banks visit their target schools, i.e. wharton, harvard, etc. for full time recruiting even when they're not looking to hire, just to keep a good relation with the school.
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