I just finished a preliminary interview for a medium sized engineering company. The interviewer was impressed with my background and asked to proceed with my candidacy but wanted four additional rounds of interviews and a 30 minute technical presentation about how I solved a problem. I turned them down and said I don’t work for free, the amount of time it would take to gather my notes and thoughts on a slide deck would be too much. She quickly soured and we ended the call soon after. I feel like I dodged a bullet going through a gauntlet of work for the high chance of ending up with nothing.
What are Lemmy’s thoughts on preparing presentations for lengthy job interview processes? Would you have considered going through with it?
thoughts on preparing;
basic research about the company and verbalize some facts about them in the interview.
provide clear and concise answers to their questions.
ask them questions about temp/perm, team sizes, typical workday for the role, software/programs used, typical hours, THEIR expectations for first 3 months/probation.
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now depending on the job, I might already have a small package readily available with some jobs/things I’ve deployed but I would never go farther then that. they want me back for another interview, sure … taking tests? MMM… maybe… doing actual work? Ill walk out of the interview unless I REALLY need the money, or it’s triple my wage.