A suprisingly difficult interview
Last Tuesday, I had a job interview at Hanoi office of G Corp. which is the leading E-sports development business. The headhunter contacted via Linkedin and invited me to join the first paper exam last month. After being qualified the 1st round, she set me up an interview with a senior engineer who has experienced company's work for years. We can easily communicate between Hanoi and HCM city, big thanks to Skype and Codebunk.
Two hours in the meeting room flied so fast. From my perspective, I think that I didn't give my best short this time. I might be rejected. You may ask do I feel disappointed. Nope, not at all. On the contrary, the preparation time gave me an inspiration to write about the other aspect of interview. It is obviously amazing if someone passes those challenges, but what if somebody fails? In this post, I concentrate more on the bright side of failure.
First, interviews are a great opportunities to re-examine my ability. The job that I mentioned above requires various kinds of knowledge which includes algorithms, OS concepts, networking and database foundations. Those contents are familiar to me but I forgot most of them because they are not equivalent to my current responsibilities at work. Hence, I spent times reviewing them and realized that there are so many details that I have not noticed the first time I read. Despite unsuccessful result, my capacity has been maximized a lot in a short time. Keep on learning. I have long way to go before becoming an IT senior.
Second, when a door closes, another door opens. I had prepared 8 out of 10 sections for the interview. Unfortunately, the interviewer asked me questions belong to remained sections which are over my head. Needless to say I almost lost my confidence. Taking a deep breath, I quickly catched up with the pace of conversation and did not mess up the rest. This not-so-good performance might mean a closed gate to me.
Surprisingly right at that time, a topic on Quora catched my eyes which has a catchy title - "I interviewed with Microsoft and felt I did well. Why might I have been rejected?". I did not answer well like the person posted it, but I still learned something here. "Failure is the mother of success". Failure teaches me more than any other experience that I will ever go through. You have my words that I would immerse myself into deeper knowledge and update them to Github day by day. I will look for another opportunity next year.
I ended up deciding to work for my team until the last day of the contract. The next interview, I would be more confident with my accomplishment.
Hwaiting.^.^
Two hours in the meeting room flied so fast. From my perspective, I think that I didn't give my best short this time. I might be rejected. You may ask do I feel disappointed. Nope, not at all. On the contrary, the preparation time gave me an inspiration to write about the other aspect of interview. It is obviously amazing if someone passes those challenges, but what if somebody fails? In this post, I concentrate more on the bright side of failure.
Not relevant at all. I am enjoying football at LG...
First, interviews are a great opportunities to re-examine my ability. The job that I mentioned above requires various kinds of knowledge which includes algorithms, OS concepts, networking and database foundations. Those contents are familiar to me but I forgot most of them because they are not equivalent to my current responsibilities at work. Hence, I spent times reviewing them and realized that there are so many details that I have not noticed the first time I read. Despite unsuccessful result, my capacity has been maximized a lot in a short time. Keep on learning. I have long way to go before becoming an IT senior.
Second, when a door closes, another door opens. I had prepared 8 out of 10 sections for the interview. Unfortunately, the interviewer asked me questions belong to remained sections which are over my head. Needless to say I almost lost my confidence. Taking a deep breath, I quickly catched up with the pace of conversation and did not mess up the rest. This not-so-good performance might mean a closed gate to me.
Surprisingly right at that time, a topic on Quora catched my eyes which has a catchy title - "I interviewed with Microsoft and felt I did well. Why might I have been rejected?". I did not answer well like the person posted it, but I still learned something here. "Failure is the mother of success". Failure teaches me more than any other experience that I will ever go through. You have my words that I would immerse myself into deeper knowledge and update them to Github day by day. I will look for another opportunity next year.
I ended up deciding to work for my team until the last day of the contract. The next interview, I would be more confident with my accomplishment.
Hwaiting.^.^
Comments
Post a Comment