ouch @ my post-onsite feedback

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anxietea

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anxietea
Mar 3, 2020 15 Comments

Just heard back post-onsite. All of the feedback I was getting during each session was amazing, everyone said I would be a great fit, and I thought I knocked it out of the park but then apparently they didn’t think I was a good fit. However, another team is supposedly super interested in me and I’ll be getting a call soon regarding that process.

Currently just feeling super dead and defeated inside. I put my absolute best foot forward and had the best interview of my life and I'm not sure how much energy I have to go through everything again and get hit back again.

Advice for getting my head back in the game appreciated

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  • Indeed
    qW4LR

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    qW4LR
    I’ve had more than one occasion where what the recruiter tells me the feedback is, is not at all what was actually submitted by the interviewers. It’s a complicated game of telephone, and things are bound to get confused. It sounds like your interview was good, you passed the hiring bar, but there was some reason why your candidacy wasn’t a go for this team, and that could have nothing to do with you or your interview performance.

    Go burn off some energy, don’t take anything a recruiter says super seriously.
    Mar 3, 2020 1
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      anxietea

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      anxietea
      OP
      Thanks. I'm just clinging onto the fact that the dream isn't completely dead, because they're immediately putting me in for another team that expressed interest in me. So fingers crossed
      Mar 3, 2020
  • Oracle
    pzd

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    pzd
    The important thing is to try to figure out if you can improve something for the upcoming interview.

    For technical interview, your own perception of your performance should not be completely out of whack. Ask yourself this:
    - did you solve all the problem?
    - did you provide the optimal solution?
    - did you struggle at all?
    - did you handle all edge cases?
    - did you communicate your thoughts with the interviewer?

    It shouldn't be like you thought you nailed it and they think you failed the interview. Time for introspection.
    Mar 3, 2020 3
    • Sometimes the interviewers can sense when you've seen the problem before, and if you don't tell them ahead of time, then the perceived "dishonesty" (if you can even call it that) can be held against you. It's always better to own up to seeing a similar problem before and ask for another question (usually they appreciate this and just stick with the same one).
      Mar 4, 2020
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      anxietea

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      anxietea
      OP
      Yep I totally owned up to it! It was a twist on my problem and I came clean
      Mar 4, 2020
  • Facebook / Eng
    Jon B

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    Jon B
    The process can be draining but this didn't seem like a full No, so that's good.
    Is this for a technical role?
    Mar 3, 2020 2
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      anxietea

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      anxietea
      OP
      Yep this was for software engineering within their partner engineering team
      Mar 3, 2020
    • Facebook / Eng
      Jon B

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      Jon B
      You wouldn't be starting from scratch. The previous feedback is in the system, so I would see this as one more step in the process.
      Mar 3, 2020
  • If another team is interested, you're still perfectly fine and in the running. It could be your background, how well you clicked with the interviewers, any other seemingly inconsequential factors that have nothing to do with your performance. This happened with two of the companies where I eventually ended up getting offers from both (Facebook was one of them).

    For me, I needed to show up again for 3 more interviews. All you have to do is continue to knock the future interviews out of the park like you already have been, and you'll get an offer. You'll need another company's offer to use as leverage in the meantime, or the recruiter will just move super slowly (so they can get you cheap). Good luck!
    Mar 4, 2020 2
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      anxietea

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      anxietea
      OP
      Thank you! Yeah I feel better today about it. I can definitely pass the bar, and that’s why I didn’t just get rejected. Were your 3 more interviews a full pass of everything (design,coding, behavioral), or were they mostly focused to fill in any gaps for the new team to evaluate a fit?
      Mar 4, 2020
    • More of the latter (I had another design interview that was more like what that team was working on).
      Mar 4, 2020
  • Facebook / Eng
    Jon B

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    Jon B
    Most interviews require you to solve 2 problems in 45 minutes. Around 20 minutes each. How long did you take?
    Mar 4, 2020 1
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      anxietea

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      anxietea
      OP
      I was testing in about 10, and we just kept increasing the complexity of the same problem instead of introducing a new one
      Mar 4, 2020