I have 14+ yrs of work ex as a manager of ICs and a masters degree. I have an interview coming up with Lyft for a people manager position and the interviewer is much less experienced than me! They are ICs with barely 5 yrs of experience after BS! Feels wrong and demeaning somehow. Should I tell the recruiter?
Wow you are a dumbass. Apparently 14 years of experience hasn't taught you anything. If you know to interview, then interviewing with someone with 5 years of experience should be a cake-walk. It sounds like you are just an entitled moron.
This is not generally true. Interviewers who don’t have enough experience will play defensive and egotistical in my experience.
I have never gone into an interview and judged someone who has less experience than me. If the interviewer comes off egotistical, then you don't want to work there. The company selects who they want to interview to tell you who they are.
Some of tech companies have a very bloated staff level. For some reason you get to staff in like 5-6 years and then it’s just a battle to go higher. The interviewer was likely a tech lead or staff which is a common choice to interview a line manager.
Welcome to tech world, when I was at Meta, my manager was 10 yrs younger than me.. this norm continues… people from colleges join as interns and then continue to work for 5-10 yrs in the same company in India and then transfer to Seattle or Bay Area as managers on h1b… experienced folks with more experience join FANG companies at lower positions as they still make more money and then find kids managing them… get used to it…
It sucks. What you should do depends on your leverage.
Oh wow you have a masters? That’s crazy how did you accomplish that?
Kid spotted
I won't mind if the interviewer is more accomplished than me. But here is seems like a person who would end up reporting to me if i get the job. Its either a mistake or just stupid. Anyway... Cant judge a book by its cover
It is fairly common for subordinates to have an interview with potential managers. It is a part of 360 degree assessment.
dude, first pass the interview... then you can talk shit
Imagine being interviewed by Zuck when he was 26 and you were 40. Age shouldn't matter. Go in with a positive mindset and give your best shot.
Shitty comparison. Clearly OP’s interviewer is no Zuckerberg.
What level are you interviewing for?
Outside of Amazon it's very common actually. Amazon is the only big tech company I know that requires an interviewer to be the same level as, or senior than the candidate, and that seniority within Amazon generally correlates to experiences. Companies like Meta have a lot of kid managers and kid interviewers. Their interviews can be very tricky because they lack understanding of reality and are much more idealistic. They won't like you if you are not as idealistic or "dream big" like them.
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You can talk to the recruiter but don't expect anything to change. This is sadly a common theme