interviews

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First, he takes interviews seriously; like he stops looking for work when he gets a serious one.

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Quick take

A formal meeting, in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A formal meeting, in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant.

noun

Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official or adversarial nature.

noun

A police interrogation of a suspect or party in an investigation.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for interviews.

noun

A formal meeting, in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant.

noun

Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official or adversarial nature.

noun

A police interrogation of a suspect or party in an investigation.

noun

An audition.

Example sentences

First, he takes interviews seriously; like he stops looking for work when he gets a serious one.

But every dozen interviews or so you get someone who really knows Javascript and certain frameworks backwards and forwards.

Yes, companies are generally desperate for programmers right now, and companies definitely want you to succeed in your interviews.

This will tend to get you at least in the door as far as interviews go...

If you find yourself unemployed, hack on something in between interviews and call it a startup that didn't work out.

It's a numbers game and as long as you're getting interviews you're on the right track.

I have been fishing in Dallas and Austin over the past several months and can't get any interviews.

The best interviews I've had are where it's clear that it is two people talking, and not two computers.

I fully expect to have to apply to 100 places in order to have 3 solid interviews.

Don't waste time applying and going to interviews for a 9-5.

I do a lot of interviews, and I interview plenty of programmers who have 10+ years experience or so they say.

During my last round of interviews last fall, places that required knowledge of major math theorems in the interview resulted in rejections 100% of the time.

Quote examples

I had a bunch of interviews with "regular" companies on the East Coast and the process is way more sane and much less grueling.

> I keep reading horror stories about multi-day interviews with "take home tests" and other insanity 2 actual interviews that were offered to me early in my career: 1.

I keep reading horror stories about multi-day interviews with "take home tests" and other insanity, here on HN - and these are usually traits of the interviewing processes of newly minted startups.

Oddly, while I didn't need to be able to reference the language I was using exactly (pseudocode was good enough), they wouldn't help me out with the math knowledge, implying that it was "Algebra I stuff" and that "Everyone knows that." The interviews (and my job as an Ops guy) in general don't require advanced math knowledge.

Proper noun examples

Interviews that did not include this dependency resulted in offer letters 100% of the time.

Interviews that either provided a definition of the math required or provided some of the steps to solve the problem resulted in job offers 100% of the time.