What was your hardest interview?

Be a man and grow a pair

Paging guy who cried

Recruiter reached out to me from Oracle for a business development position. Interview was first personality and then followed a video conference skills test where they put computer programming questions for me to answer. I have no idea what on my resume gave them the idea that I knew how to code python, but I failed it so miserably I never even got a rejection letter

But to also answer your question the hardest interview in my life was for my current job.

New industry. Leadership interview. 8 Executives and VPs just throwing questions at you.

You got to sell yourself and your vision without telling them how to do their business.

I am lucky to have been through the interview processes before to be prepared. It was a challenge.

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Yellerhammer5

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Why does a biz dev need Python? Aren’t you sales

My previous position was probably my toughest interview, the "job requirements" were a mile long and always read like a Xmas list from HR but in the interview you'll always find out which ones are most important.

My go-to strategy in an interview is to always turn it into a conversation and always try to mix in some off-topic banter to find out how they are in regular conversation. If you find yourself talking about sports and whatnot in an interview then you know the job is yours.

My first accounting job was 2 years ago, a semester before I finished school. They were remote because of COVID, So I did:

A phone screen with HR
A video interview with the hiring manager (controller)
A video interview my future senior
A video interview with 2 of my future colleagues
A video interview with the accounting manager
A video interview with someone on the OPs team, who we work closely with
A final debrief video interview with the controller

I heard back in a week and got the job. All interviews were at least half an hour, most were a full 60 minutes.

To be fair, the colleagues, accounting manager, cross-functional, and debrief interviews would have been a single in person office day, but because of COVID they were extended video interviews over the span of 2 days.

I was fricking exhausted afterward. I now ask the HR person what the hiring process consists of and if it's more than a screen and 2 interviews I politely say no thank you.

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Yellerhammer5

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I walk in to the interview and realize my ex GF’s mother is the one conducting it. We had never met, but she had to know who I was. I knew I had no chance, so I just wanted to yell, “I fricked your daughter!”