Longest Interview

[KathyWoolfe]

My current role I had no interview with the client!

Same here, mind you I had worked for the client before (2 Yrs before) and gave them two project managers for references. The first time with this client I had just a 20 minute phone interview, more or less along the lines of can I code in COBOL etc.

[NickNick]

Longest interview for me was a rather grueling one a while back where they dropped teo 20 minute presetations on me in the interview.
Started with normal interview type stuff, then one of the chaps said, 'OK, so we'd like you to do a 20 minute preentation on how a mobile phone network operates from call to bill for Pre and post pay' and he handed me a marker pen and pointed at the white board.

Similar thing later on in the interview, but that was more problem based. As in, OK so in the network we want to do X, tell me how you would design and document it.

Overall I think it was about 3 hours. I declined the job.

Shortest is the one I've just had which was a sub 2 minute phone call and I was offered it at the beginning of the call.

NN

[Darren_Test]

On a related subject...

I just had 45 min interview for a Test manager contract role....interview was OK.
is this duration (45min) is good enough to snatch this role..??
will they waste 45 min if they are not interested in my profile..???

[Katie]

For my current position I had a 10 minute interview, but for my previous position I had a 3 hour interview with lots fo different "tests" in it!

[Spacecadet]

Yup, sure sign of a poor interviewer.

in my experience most interviewers have little experience and no formal training for interviewing.

[KathyWoolfe]

in my experience most interviewers have little experience and no formal training for interviewing.

Yes, they're usually just the project manager who wants the "resource" and if you're lucky someone on their team for "technical" questions.

[thunderlizard]

On a related subject...

I just had 45 min interview for a Test manager contract role....interview was OK.
is this duration (45min) is good enough to snatch this role..??
will they waste 45 min if they are not interested in my profile..???

nice one - I assume you overhauled your CV..?

I'd say 45 minutes is on the short side, and therefore a bad sign, but having read this thread many will disagree.
If you thought it went OK it probably did - but it's the surprises that make it fun in this game!

[Darren_Test]

nice one - I assume you overhauled your CV..?

I'd say 45 minutes is on the short side, and therefore a bad sign, but having read this thread many will disagree.
If you thought it went OK it probably did - but it's the surprises that make it fun in this game!

Thanks..My new CV is yet to publish...!This interview was based on my old CV. New CV will be out in a day or two, I though I will give a break to pimps who might till recently flooded with my CVs daily....!!

[Lockhouse]

I had an interview at CSFB in Docklands where I was interviewed in one of the boardrooms by three people (one at a time) for 45 minutes each. I was told that after the last one had finished they'd have a brief discussion and come back and tell me what they had decided.

Anyway after the last one had finished I was left sitting like a lemon in this room on my own. After half an hour or so, I decide to see what's going on and go outside into the corridor. All the lights on the floor had been switched off and everyone had gone home....

I guess I didn't get the gig then.....

[scooterscot]

Longest was 3 interviews over the corse of 2 weeks all for the one job, one of which was in a country hotel...

I got the job.

Can't say anymore or I'd have to disappear you.