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Bad Interview Experience. Was I at fault here?

3 点作者 QuasarLogic超过 7 年前
I had an interview recently with a YC company which left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I&#x27;m not going to name names here but here&#x27;s what went down.<p>After a couple missed appointments from the CEO and multiple reminders from me, I finally managed to get on a call with them. I sometimes have spotty reception in my house so the call got disconnected the first time. I called back, explained the network issues, but they hung up in middle of the conversation. I called back but I wasn&#x27;t able to reach them. So, I sent a text and waited for a callback. They did call back again, hung up while I was speaking. I called back again to no avail. I felt pretty bad at this rudeness. I gave up and sent an email to say that they could email me if they wanted to continue while apologizing for spotty reception. I tweeted at their twitter account and complained about the rude interview.<p>I got an email from CTO a few days later, which resulted in a couple more rounds of seamless and painless interviewing. The CEO emails me after and let me know that they wanted to fly me into their office at very short notice(3-4 days), and booked tickets after my approval. I get a phone call the next day from their employee, who noticed the tweet I&#x27;d made earlier and asked to take it down. I took it down as requestedand asked them who I could talk to to know more about the upcoming interciew. I was asked to call the CEO, who picked up and let me know they&#x27;d call me back. I got an email a couple hours later that said: &quot;We had some internal discussion about you and decided you aren&#x27;t a good cultural fit, and therefore, won&#x27;t be moving forward with the process. We will be canceling the flight tickets as well.&quot; I posted here because I&#x27;d like to know if I was in the red here for tweeting at them about the rude interview experience. So, what could I have done better here and how can I avoid such situations in the future?

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folknor超过 7 年前
There&#x27;s not enough details here to give a fair analysis, or useful response, I think.<p>Seems to me that you assume a few things; (1) that the CEO is not insanely busy, (2) that they hung up on you a few times, when it could be any number of technical issues, (3) that they are not human, and able to maintain optimism and momentum through multiple disconnects without giving up.<p>Also seems to me that you wrote that tweet out of frustration, while if you had waited a day and let yourself cool down, you probably would have worded it differently, or not written it at all.<p>Of course, I have no idea what the tweet said, so this is just pure speculation.<p>As for what you could do differently, I&#x27;d say: be somewhere with better reception while doing phone interviews, and if the other party misses lots of appointments, assume that they&#x27;re (a) new to their job&#x2F;role, and&#x2F;or (b) very busy - but they&#x27;ve still indicated that they want to talk to you, so actively remember that each time you feel let down.
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FroshKiller超过 7 年前
It sounds to me like you&#x27;re leaving out some context. That said, you should&#x27;ve known better than to tweet about your interview process.<p>Also, if you know you have bad reception at home, why on Earth would you take a scheduled call there? Go somewhere with better reception in advance. Sit in your car and take the call if you have to.
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troydavis超过 7 年前
An angry public tweet would be enough reason for most companies to stop hard - even if they had already interviewed you and you’d passed with flying colors.