Interviews: How to determine if they are successful?
Hey guys,
Just recently finished up some interviews and was wondering on how you gauge the success of your interview. It really throws me off when the interviewer is stone cold serious, leaving me wondering, is it me, is it something I said, or is this all a game? Sometimes I can tell they are trying to grill me and other times maybe they just have an innate instinctual dislike of me.
Do you guys usually find that interviewers like to mess with your head by acting disinterested or giving very intense "are you serious, who is this kid?" stares?
All the anticipation of hearing back for second rounds is making me anxious and I would like to know your guys' experiences in determining how well your interview went.
Thanks!
when they call you back for a second round
Exactly. What other determinant is there?
It's over now, so it's not really anything you can do about it. I had second round interviews set up minutes after my first round (one even at the end of the call for my first round), and then others where I waited 10 days before hearing back. It's nerve-wracking, but try and think back of areas where you stumbled or questions you felt you didn't answer fully, then work on those. Other than that, it's hard to gauge how you did until you hear back from them.
don't fret about it. just wait for call backs. everyone has had perfect interviews that didn't work out and vice versa.
Sometimes it's just a numbers game and nothing that you did wrong. I've had times where I had interviews with 3 or 4 different people but not all of them liked me -- just so happened the "right" one did. Other times, I've gotten along with all the interviewers and had great conversations but it didn't work out.
The only way to 100% tell is if you get a superday/offer out of it.
If they acted disinterested, they probably were. People may toss around stories about how they've heard of people "messing with the candidates," but at the end of the day this just rarely happens. Hate to be this straight-forward, but I doubt the person was just seeing how you'd react.
~~~~~~~~~~~ CompBanker
If you think about how your interview went really hard, super hard, until you feel like you're going to poop yourself, then you'll know how it went. Or you can think back to how your interview ended, it's secret banker code to wink at you twice if it went well, once if it went poorly, how many winks did you get?
Idiot.
body language is oft a telltale sign of the whether the interviewer liked you or not. reading it correctly is another story altogether.
sigh... I don't get the selection process. Sometimes you get some with BBs and then get 0 with unheard of boutiques... So tired of this bs.
just remember to not let their demeanor throw you off... if they come off too straight-faced, maybe they are trying to throw you off so just go on w/ your business and selling yourself
there was one friend of mine who was being thrown brain teaser after brain teaser (when he sucked at them) and then the banker interviewing made it a point to be obnoxious. my friend obviously felt like crap from the very beginning of the interview until he patiently worked out the problems and gave the guy some answers. at the end of the circus, the interviewer was impressed by my friends' commitment to sticking to the problems (even though the interviewer knew he sucked at these brain teasers) and going through the whole thing... the interviewer then confessed that one guy he was interviewing became so aggravated with him that the guy walked away--others just couldn't get the problems done with the obnoxiousness going on.
so all i'm trying to say is that it cuts both ways. sometimes they are genuinely disinterested and that's the end of that one. sometimes they just want to tick you off
I call bullsh*t on your story. No interviewer would ever tell a candidate that.
yeah
take it as you wish... i'm not saying this always happens. all i was trying to point out is that interviews can vary a great deal, particularly in the way the interviewer reacts to whatever you are doing
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