2011/11/16 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > This might be part of the problem. An interview is *not* for interviewer > and candidate to learn from each other. If you go in with this expectation, > you will be disappointed. The people who interview are not here to teach > you anything, they are trying to recruit the next member of the team they > spend forty hours a week working with. It's a big deal and they need to > make sure they are not hiring the wrong person, because such a mistake will > have an impact on both their professional and personal lives (working with > people you don't like or don't respect will have a negative impact on your > mood when you come home at night). > > That's their only goal. > > Your only goal should be to impress them. That's it. Not trying to learn > from them, not trying to teach them anything, just answer their questions > the best you can. >
The interviewee has just as much right to learn about the environment and the bunch of people that he or she is going to be spending 40+ hours a week with. Hope I'm not missing what you're trying to say but it sounds like you're a bit too biased towards the people on the hiring side in your position. If I'm interviewing for a position, I want to learn about the culture and the organisation behind it. Sure, I'd be doing my best to impress them but I'd also be interviewing them as much as they're interviewing me. P. PS. I also disagree with the OP, and I am from Eastern Europe ;-) Impressing your future colleagues in an informal setting should be every bit as important as the technical stuff. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
