I have a job interview coming up and want to get everything right this time. Would appreciate any suggestions. I usually start by telling where I've done my college from and then talk about the work I've done at my current firm. Anything more that I should add?
This script has always won hearts for me.
Interviewer: So, tell me about yourself.
Me:
Sure, happy to. I've been into building products for some time now. I like exploring real pain points of people who are doing repetitive jobs and try to build some quick dirty tech solution for them. Seeing smile on their face when they save time by using my software gives me kicks. I've been coding in kotlin, nodejs for some time now. I love hackathons, the thrill of building something unthinkable in 48 hours blows my mind.
I've been learning ux principles around building revenue generating products. I've lot to learn from you guys.
Why I think it has worked for me?
That's it.
Have fun. đ
I asked "what do you want to know?". I think that's where I lost the job
Itâs generally a conversation starter. I would like to believe a good interview would not make a go/nogo call from this answer. I could be wrong.
Ironically, whenever I have managed this well and used this question as a good starting point have been the interviews where I didnât fuss / rehearse a lot about this question. Just kept a few pointers in my head and went with the flow.
I would ideally phrase a question back this way - "Usually that is a broad question but I want to get a sense of what you would like to know about me, so that I can frame my response accordingly"
This usually works. They give me direction as to what their expectation is and yeah, you can give only the necessary details from there.
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