Poor communication skills of interviewer
How do you handle poor communication skills and etiquette of interviewer during onsite interviews for a system design/data modeling question where they have to explain the problem they want solved. They were late by about 5 mins and never apologized and kept making irritated faces when I tried asking pointed questions to get my understanding of the question confirmed, but at the end of the interview the interviewer changed the definition of a business term that we agreed on at the beginning. They made a lot of assumptions that everyone knows how their business works only by doing a lousy job of explaining some company specific jargon and have me design an incorrect solution while they were looking at their laptop most of the time. It was hard for me to keep my composure during the interview. How do you handle such issues? This was at Lyft today.
You should ask him to leave the room and demand another interviewer. If he doesn’t agree, sue him.
Lol oracle and sue go hand in hand
You should be asked to fill out a post interview survey. Be objective in it
Thank you. Will do
Well it’s your failure , do you have a clear statement of what your objection is ? Were you rejected by that interviewer ? Tell recruiter and get another one
How do you communicate with poor communicators? By exercising good communication skills yourself. When the interviewer changed the meaning of a previously defined business term, did you clearly communicate to work through the confusion? Or did you limp along on unsure footing? When they did a lousy job of explaining business jargon, did you first acknowledge that you still did not fully understand and then persist in asking well phrased questions until clarity was achieved? Speaking effectively with worse communicators IS being a good communicator.
Theres nothing you really can do. You can only control how you responded and answered the question and do best you can. There are no do-overs with a bad interviewer or anything that you can change. Its part luck and you got unlucky this time.
Not to stereotype, but in my experience they have all been Indians and Chinese.
I dont disagree. It may be a culture thing, it may be racial bias, it may be inexperience in interviewing, etc. But still cant do anything about it.