Had my first 'bad' interview in years yesterday

[vetran]

Bad luck, but they weren't taking it seriously (its not a college interview)so you shouldn't.

Unfortunately throughout your post I thought of the adverts on the telly for this (NSFW)

40over40.ca

[fullyautomatix]

This is like watching an episode of Sex and the City with Gentile playing the part of Samatha.

[fullyautomatix]

Did you have your norks on display?

It wasnt an interview for a porn movie.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

I am the type of person who actually enjoys going for interviews (perhaps one of the reasons I am more suited to contracting). There are a couple of occasions where I have been caught out as well but they have only served me to be stronger in interviews.

Over the last 8 years I believe I have attended in excess of 70 interviews although a fair few of them were for industrial placement at uni and Grad jobs.

[EternalOptimist]

You Daleks have one track minds.

yeah

and even if she did, you wouldn't be able to get up the stairs

[Gentile]

This is like watching an episode of Sex and the City with Gentile playing the part of Samatha.

I totally had to check which one she was there.

Now we've got that cleared up, which one's Ant and which one's Dec again?

[nomadd]

I totally had to check...

It's Americanisms like that which lost you the role.

Try Cool Britannia in the future.

[hyperD]

I had an interview with a guy that had such a broad Scottish accent and mumbled all the time that I simply couldn't understand him and kept asking him to repeat the question. Fortunately his sidekick was aware of this guy's problem and literally became the translator. I thought I'd blown it but after the technical test, got the gig.

On the flipside, in my early contracting days, I went for A VB 6 gig with a big company that a good friend was working at, so really wanted it. The interview was going great, really great, and I was on such a high that I started to tell a joke (difference between VB and C++ developers and getting projects finished or something) then after a stoney silence, one of the interviewers said "I'm a C++ developer, actually".

I was a fecking idiot. Even my mate their said I was an arse. He was right. No gig and one lesson learned.

[fullyautomatix]

It's Americanisms like that which lost you the role.

Try Cool Britannia in the future.

I am glad we got to the bottom of it. I was thinking it might have something to do with knowing nine discrete technologies.

[Gentile]

I am the type of person who actually enjoys going for interviews (perhaps one of the reasons I am more suited to contracting). There are a couple of occasions where I have been caught out as well but they have only served me to be stronger in interviews.

Over the last 8 years I believe I have attended in excess of 70 interviews although a fair few of them were for industrial placement at uni and Grad jobs.

That's a lot of interviews - an average of one every six weeks. By contrast, I've only had about twenty interviews in the past twelve years, but I got most of the jobs they were for, and some of them were toughies. Just not my day this time.