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How do working professionals give there interview, i mean doesn't your job time collide with the interview time. How do you manage?

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Working Professionals Interview- Grapevine

developers in my team are giving 1 hr interviews so swiftly while being on office. As most of my experiences are from home, how do you guys manage giving interviews from office?
Spell out some tricks and process 😬

Giving interviews in office like a PRO

Product Manager

How do you folks manage to give interviews while working in office 5 days a week? 

Do you end up taking off?

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Data Analyst

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For my previous switch either i was working remotely or was not working so i could give interviews easily.
How to convince an interview during weekends?
One cannot take so many sick leaves / leaves just for an interview right.

How do full time employee handle working from office give interview ?

Machine Learning Engineer

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P.S. Not GenZ, but relate to vibe as a concept

I've interviewed with multiple companies, and I'm starting to notice a pattern. 

Interviewers who:
- Have their cameras off
- Show up in old t-shirts, looking like they haven't washed their face or combed their hair
- Roll their eyes when the answer isn't what they wanted to hear
- Fidget around when you are speaking
- Look anywhere but at the camera
- Give in to itches all over the body 👀 
among many others 

If we as interviewees are expected to be presentable and excited, the least interviewers could do is put in a little effort to appear decent and engaged.

Is Interviewer vibe a thing?

It's been so difficult these days.

All I want to do is get out of the rut I'm in. 

Upskilling, working, interviewing, applying, cooking food, working out etc is sooo draining. Some days, I just want to sleep. 

I don't know how you all do it. 
The rejections and the hot weather don't make it easier. 

Any advice?

How do you all manage to interview/look for a job while working full time?

Account Manager

How do you give interviews for different orgs if you are working on a totally on-site role.

Do you take multiple leaves in between?
Suggest some tips?

Give interviews while working in-site

Software Engineer

I have an interview coming up next week, but since I work full-time, I can't do it during the week. Can I ask HR to schedule it only on a weekend? If they won't, I won't proceed 🤧
And how can I convince them for weekend 🥺

Interview on weekend

Software Developer

Hi folks, 
a genuine ask to folks specifically in Bombay who are working for approx 10 hrs and that too from office and also the traveling to home in local, metro. How are you guys managing this exhaustion and also preparing for your next job/career. Would really like your views on managing various stuff in your life while maintaining a healthy balance to each and every component.

balance between professional and personal life

Associate Product Manager

Try to avoid asking questions which can doxx me on LinkedIn (that's where I post a little)

See if you can focus on asking questions around principles & not masala stories

Problem with masala stories is that you'll learn the wrong things from my narratives

This will be fun I think

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Hello everyone, 
How is your interview preparation going on ? And do you also find it re starting it again while working in a company in parallel ? 
My story is I have 9-6 working hours but sometimes stretch it in night too. Whenever I plan on doing DSA either i find it too boring or my streak gets broken due to company work. 
Any plan on how to do both parallel? 
Thank you

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I've recently started applying for new roles, but I'm finding it challenging to manage interviews with my current 9-6 strict wfo job schedule.

Most companies are scheduling interviews between 10-4, and with multiple rounds over a span of weeks, it's becoming hard to balance.


Has anyone been in a similar situation? Any strategies for scheduling interviews without raising red flags at work? Also, what are some legitimate reasons or excuses I could give my manager for taking time off?

Need tips on scheduling interviews

How to manage time for DSA while working 9pm to 5pm?

Please share your ideas and experiences, including your personal schedule if you have faced a similar situation.

P.S : Planning to shift within 6 months
P.S : Company made strict wfo policy, from last week.

Seeking Time Management Tips from 9-to-5 Professionals

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You have got a Job offer. What are the parameters other than salary are a must for you before you sign the contract? Only if these parameters are there then only you will go ahead; else not.

What are the parameters for you to select a company?

So I am working at a startup for around a year now. Everyday I see, it feels, what am I really doing? Where is the life headed? 
    Doing bare minimum or doing your tasks and fucking off isn't enough. It's expected that we outgrow constantly, as if it's this work that we can always think about and nothing else. At the end, am wondering if it's still worth it?
    1 day it feels that let's just quit it! Next day I feel, okay, I do want the money. 

I ain't looking for suggestions here, just wanted to see if anyone else felt this way

Getting increasingly bored of work at startup

Been there, but money is very important especially for a middle class family, for most of us we are earning 5x more than our parents at least and have huge expectations from families to provide them with good life

Then the interviewer again calls after few days and says before rolling out offer letter I want to discuss for 10 mins. And the discussion goes on for 1 hr.

PS - it is a global MNC.

Is it a red flag if an interviewer stretch the interview for 1.5 hrs. Scheduled call was for 45 mins.

No, some interviewers prefer holistic discussions rather time bounded. If you enjoyed those convos, I don’t see a reason for red flag

Chartered Accountant

In case of forced attrition (layoff / pip / toxicity etc) when you left a job without an offer. How did you mange your time?

What to do while you wait for Interview calls?

Hi,

I have almost 10 months of experience as software developer in 3 companies one internship, 2 full-time. First 2 was absolutely initial-stage startups, this one is a seed-funded startup. In my current company the culture and the manager is really nice. I work as a backend developer, node, MongoDB, express, genai, auth, etc. tech stack. But the work does not excite me at all, I was enjoying at my previous company a lot more. That was young team, so everyone was new to tech and trying to figure out things and was helpful and collaborative. Here everyone is in their 30s and 40s and I am 23, no one even cares of what I work and how difficulty I am facing in work/team. That's why I fear of losing my job every day and I am still on my probation. So I thought of applying in case I get laid off. I got an interview opportunity at company. I want to ask what should I answer if the interviewer asks me about the frequent switches.

In first company I switched because the company is like 3 people and no funding was received so only 3 more months of money remaining( btw now only the founder left and he is still trying to raise money, my other colleague left too). So what should I give a reason for this potential switch? 

Current perks: 6LPA base. Nothing else.

Have an interview coming up, how to prepare for frequent switching question?

Would you continue interviewing with a hiring manager who reschedules at the last minute? (less than 10 minutes to the interview)

Context- A recruiter reached out, resume shortlisted and interview scheduled 3 days in advance but still interviewer asks for rescheduling at the very last minute!

Think about it- You put efforts to manage time & ensure availability in the middle of the week but interviewer can’t even manage 30 minutes for an interview?

Rescheduling interview at the last minute

Typically I never see an interviewer turn up on time.  I mean it's like you spend an hour or more beating the traffic, and then locating the venue, and then trying to find a place to park your vehicle.  After all the trouble, you find that the interviewer is "busy" so please wait.

Sometimes the wait turns out so annoying, when you see the staff there running around busy or rather "looking busy". No one bothers to answer your query, they are just running around.

Some interviewers just try to bully you. Even when you are right, they are hell bent on proving you are wrong. Of course there are some who will try putting you down as much as they can, to the extent of destroying your confidence. That itself is a red flag never to join that company.

Worst experience I had with TCS, the panel was filled with some old uncles, who kept asking everything except what was related to my field. Yeah once was asked about bridges too.

The walk in drives are the worst of the lot. More often than not chaotic and messy, stand in long Qs, some volunteers trying to look important. And endless wait for your turn. Go to one of them be prepared to spend all day there.

Do share your interview experiences.

Desi Interview Experiences

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So basically I don't hesitate in challenging the interviewer if I feel like they don't know how to interview a senior candidate

so during many interviews, this is how I have caught them off guard:

1. The interviewer was asking me technical questions and expecting to explain properly throughout. So at the end i asked him about the tech stack they use, he said Azure. I asked him why they use Azure and not AWS, to which he said "it's cheaper", i didn't let it go, i asked him for a proper technical explanation, his red face was worth seeing.

2. The interview asked me a hard DSA question, and I wasn't able to solve it properly, he didn't even give me enough hints, just expected me to solve it. So halfway I asked him, would you like to solve a DSA if I ask you right now, he said no because it's not his interview. To which I asked, are you afraid that you won't be able to solve? If you are going to reject me for not solving this question, would you resign if you aren't able to solve the question. He ended the call.

3. One interviewer was asking me absurd technical detailed questions. I asked him why are you asking such questions, he said he needs to know my thought process because he will work with me. I started asking him similar questions, he said he won't answer because it's not his interview. I said I also need to know your thought process because we'll work together, so you should also answer these questions, he had no reply.

4. The interviewer asked me about a challenging project that I had done recently. I don't like this question at all. So I said there wasn't any challenging project because I'm good at what I do so it's always easy for me. He moved on to the next question.

5. HR asked me why I resigned without an offer? I asked if it's mandatory? No reply.

Having some fun with the interviewers

Not sure whether this is something to tom-tom about. Talks more about the quality of interviewer & the approach taken by the person.   
  
 To be honest, they're well within their right to ask you a tough question and/or to test your thought process, that's their job. If you get so easily offended, you're probably not going to fit in, in the long term.  
  
 I'm sure there are better ways to communicate that the interviewer is asking you a lame question or there's insufficient information.  
  
 Honestly, I take tons of interviews, an hour spent interviewing is an hour spent not doing actual work and drop in productivity. Doubt if senior people would ever do this to waste 'their' time... (Forget yours). Sensible people wouldn't.  
  
 No offense, but with so many interviews going this way, maybe time to point the mirror the other way...

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