Why even waste my time when you clearly aren't interested at all?
Just had a first round portfolio presentation with Uber, and during the entire presentation the interviewers did not seem at all interested nor engaged (they don't seem like they are even looking at the screen tbh) When I'm done presenting and were expecting them to ask me questions about my projects, they didn't ask me anything related to what I presented, only 1 generic "how you plan your projects" type of questions.
I have been interviewing around this past few weeks and I have landed several final onsite, so I know my materials. I sure as hell didn't "bomb" this interview, I hit all the points I wanted to make and I finished the presentation at the perfect timing (47 minutes, leaving 10+ minutes for Q&A) Normally I'd feel good about it but as soon as I was done with the interview, I knew they won't continue, it's all on their face.
And just now I got their auto rejection email. It's perfectly normal for me to get rejected, but for this particular instance, I feel like this is such a waste of both their time and my time. Their recruiter went through all the troubles to reach out to me via Linkedin, set up phone calls, show my portfolio and resume to their hiring manager, setting up a one hour portfolio review. I presented exactly what's on my portfolio, and they just aren't interested from the beginning. If my experience is not what they are looking for, why even bother? What did they expect exactly?
YOE: 4.5 years
TC: 200K
#uber #productdesign #interviews
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1. Just a bad day. Everyone was busy and stressed out and their mind was stuck with the work they should be doing and stressing about looming deadlines. Sometimes when I would set up interviews, no one wanted to go because they had work to do. Going felt like a punishment because they were all behind on projects.
2. Your work wasn’t up to snuff. After doing tons of interviews, sometimes people can “tell” the quality of work in the first 5 minutes. The work, how you talk, they can already tell you aren’t going to pass so they seek to optimize their time. This is of course not fair to the candidate and they could be wrong but people seek to conserve mental energy and will look for patterns.
3. They already hired someone for the role and or they wanted to see if you were better vs that person.