Recently I had couple of fantastic interviews, but fallen flat on interviewer tricks ..!
- One occasion recently at the end of an hour long tele interview, interviewer asked me email some documents which I prepared for the previous client to check my documentation skills..! I was quite excited about the way interview was progressing & very confident of the outcome. Still I declined first saying I don't keep any documents from previous clients, suspecting its a trick.! But later agreed to send it when he insisted. I sent it by masking some vital client info & converting it in to a PDF, thinking this guy is really going to check my document & going to get an offer soon..!
30 minutes later I got call agent saying I am not selected, with out giving any concreate reasons.
- On another occasion, I claimed to be a proactive tester in CV & during course of interview interviewer supplied me a set of very vague requirements & gone out for tea so that I can find solution. Without knowing the trick I made many assumptions & gave the solution. They were expecting me to seek clarifications on the vague requirements before jumping in to the solution like any good tester..!
Here too I got negative response from agent as soon as I reached home though interview was very extensive and largely positive.
These tricks really measures things which are not written in CV & might fall flat even if you do well in technical side.
Any one else fallen flat on interviewer tricks..??
- One occasion recently at the end of an hour long tele interview, interviewer asked me email some documents which I prepared for the previous client to check my documentation skills..! I was quite excited about the way interview was progressing & very confident of the outcome. Still I declined first saying I don't keep any documents from previous clients, suspecting its a trick.! But later agreed to send it when he insisted. I sent it by masking some vital client info & converting it in to a PDF, thinking this guy is really going to check my document & going to get an offer soon..!
30 minutes later I got call agent saying I am not selected, with out giving any concreate reasons.
- On another occasion, I claimed to be a proactive tester in CV & during course of interview interviewer supplied me a set of very vague requirements & gone out for tea so that I can find solution. Without knowing the trick I made many assumptions & gave the solution. They were expecting me to seek clarifications on the vague requirements before jumping in to the solution like any good tester..!
Here too I got negative response from agent as soon as I reached home though interview was very extensive and largely positive.
These tricks really measures things which are not written in CV & might fall flat even if you do well in technical side.
Any one else fallen flat on interviewer tricks..??
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