I am a university student. I was interviewing for a coop opportunity at Ford Motor Company, Waterloo location. The interviewer joined along with an intern and told me “I only chose you for an interview because you put Unreal Engine experience on the resume and I thought its cool.” Keep in mind the job is completely unrelated to Unreal Engine, and it is something I did as a hobby 1 and a half years ago. I mentioned some of the stuff I worked on and he started asking me advanced UE4 questions. When I told him sorry it’s been a long time since I worked on it, as I did not expect to be questioned about a game engine for a frontend role, he said “Okay so you don’t know it” very angrily then stood up and left showing his empty chair. He left me to finish the interview with his intern. At the last 5 minutes he came back with a coffee and asked if I had questions. Pretty demoralizing experience as a second year student but what are your thoughts? I got a better job afterwards but thought I’d share. #interview
You should have asked about the 360 camera issue on the Ford Explorer and why he hasn’t fixed it yet.
It's a hardware limitation, the program chose poor quality cameras
Aka management want less cost, ignore all consequences.
What the fuggg is that guy smoking
LMAO at the interviewer. You dodged a bullet. You're young, plenty of jobs out there without crazy hiring managers
It’s not you. That guy is terrible and working with him would be toxic.
maybe the interviewer used to work at a big-ish game studio and doesn’t have much self-awareness
he also may have been trying to humble you? I remember a friend from college that got a google offer, and was asked longest palindrome in a microsoft internship interview however, she was probably demolishing all the other questions and the economy was strong enough that an ego check wasn’t such an unfathomably evil idea
Who brings interns into interviews? Sounds like amateur hour. Huge plus +1 to dodging a bullet.
It’s Ford who cares lol Find something better
Report this behaviour back to recruiter. They have no business interviewing people with this attitude.
Lmao I work with a lot of the front end devs on the Waterloo team I would love to know who this was
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Interviews are performative and mostly not taken as seriously as they should by the interviewer. They're also unfair by design to minimize false positives (bad hires). Move on & remember each interview is like a game of blackjack. You can play your cards perfectly and still lose.