(transitive) To ask questions of (somebody); to have an interview.
interviewed
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for interviewed.
Editorial note
It’s not just the candidate that’s being interviewed for the job, it’s also the employer being interviewed to determine suitability.
Quick take
(transitive) To ask questions of (somebody); to have an interview.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of interviewed gathered in one view.
(intransitive) To be interviewed; to attend an interview.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for interviewed.
verb
(transitive) To ask questions of (somebody); to have an interview.
verb
(intransitive) To be interviewed; to attend an interview.
Example sentences
It’s not just the candidate that’s being interviewed for the job, it’s also the employer being interviewed to determine suitability.
For the vast majority of jobs they are desperate for you to be competent having just interviewed 5 incompetent people.
Josh Drake(the researcher who found the stage fright exploit) was interviewed on the last episode of the risky business podcast.
Out of the 10 or so people I've interviewed, exactly none of them has gotten past this question.
When you are interviewed, you should write down the answers afterwards and honestly ask yourself if you explained things clearly and in depth.
A few months ago I interviewed a developer in his thirties who had a great looking resume.
Anecdotally, I've hired truly great people, and interviewed ex-Googlers and other good pedigrees, from Stackoverflow Careers and HN posts.
Because there are people who are being interviewed who can do this.
I've interviewed people with very strong technical skills but their social skills were not just slightly poor but very poor.
Having interviewed quite a number of self-proclaimed JavaScript developers over the course of my career, my experience is that this is debatable at best.
I've interviewed with a couple companies just to see what it's like out there.
In London, I'm currently on a 2 month notice, however that has always seemed unusual to agents and people I interviewed with.
Quote examples
I recently interviewed for 4 jobs, one of them was one of these type of "you must implement this in 1 hour".
I'm getting interviewed as a non-technical founder".
I remember years ago, one company I interviewed with ultimately didn't hire me because "my experience was very strong in graphics and game development but they needed more of a generalist".
I've interviewed people at my previous job, and they have flat out decided not to join when they were told we weren't using Github and had no plans to move to it." This is a bit extreme IMO.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use interviewed in a sentence?
It’s not just the candidate that’s being interviewed for the job, it’s also the employer being interviewed to determine suitability.
What does interviewed mean?
(transitive) To ask questions of (somebody); to have an interview.
What part of speech is interviewed?
interviewed is commonly used as verb.