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I recently had an onsite interview experience at Google. The last interviewer was not paying attention to me at all. At times when I was speaking the answer he would just close his eyes. Also he was not taking any notes at all (All others were typing on computer). When the recruiter called me, he told that 4/5 interview feedback was very good with no red flags. One of the interviewers told that “I don’t speak in a concise manner”. But the recruiter told that he will contact me in 4-6 months again as he was quite confident I will clear next time. Should I inform the recruiter about the 5th interviewer? I don’t want to be a douche as he might think I am doing this because I got rejected.
I disagree. I think you should let’s tell them bout your interview experience. Trying is better than not trying. Infact I would have told u to send an email to your recruiter right after you were done with the last interview. If you don’t speak up it will stay in your stomach forever. I was offered to redo the interviews the same month since my interviewers were douchebags and there was no room for the first interview in the loop.
If you’re going to tell them, don’t do it with the mindset that you can make them change their mind but instead do it in the tone of “this was my experience and I don’t think it gave a favorable impression of your company. You might want to look into it for the sake of other candidates.”
“And if another round is possible, I will gladly take it.”
That’s exactly what I was thinking. I don’t expect my feedback would change the result.
I’m a recruiter and if an interviewer didn’t provide a good experience to my candidate, I’d like to know about it. 99% chance it won’t change your interview outcome (assuming it’s nothing drastic) but it’s something that needs to get fixed. Although it doesn’t necessarily change your results, it helps us make better interviewers for down the road. You can definitely mention your experience but try to sandwich it between “thank you again for the opportunity to interview” and another compliment.
For me the interviewer changed the decision from hire to not hire. He had in fact called me Wednesday morning that 4 interviewers have given good feedback with no red flag. He has given the 5th interviewer a deadline for Thursday EOD. Once he submits feedback, he will proceed with team matching. And then next day he tells about the feedback.
Sorry but how do you know the weird guy didn’t give you a good score?
Tell them about the interviewer. Accept these things are rare but happen. Each company coaches it’s people and expects them to treat candidates well. If recruiters and HM are aware of this person being a douche in most interviews, it’ll show in his perf ratings and manager 1:1s
lol no
More likely it’ll be a mild verbal reprimand and he’ll get pulled out of the interviewer pool. At least that’s how it would work at most of the places I’ve been an interviewer.
The recruiter told one of the interviewers gave really bad feedback so I won’t be considered for hiring committee.
From what I know of the google interview process, having 1 bad interview is less likely to disqualify you than not have 1 stellar interview, so you might have gotten rejected either way
After the whole interview process is over, you’ll get an email with a link to a survey. You can use that to rate each interviewer and give feedback. If you rate any one very low and give good reasons, the recruiter may call you to schedule additional interviews. I think that in your case, however, more than one interviewer gave bad feedback, because if it was only one bad score, they’d still send you to HC.
^ This
How did you perform in his interview? Do you think you did well in the question he asked? If yes and he was a bad interviewer then there is something wrong with him. If you didn't do well, I doubt how the interviewer treated you is relevant.
Interviewer’s behavior must not depend on quality of answers. At the end it’s two humans having a conversation.
I feel I answered all his questions well.
When you watch a sporting event and you see a player arguing with a referee, have you ever seen it work out in the players favor? Your interviewers are guarding all the doors and holding all the keys. It's their game and all you can do is play it to the best of your ability, and then keep learning how to play better. So, in short, no--keep your opinion about the 5th interviewer to yourself, and focus on your next round. Good luck.