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4mo
a content writer
Interview experience with foreign guys
I had an interview yesterday with two Belgian guys and it felt really good. Unlike Indian interviewers who always like to show you who the boss is by asking really hard questions and grilling you, they were really chill and asking me about my projects and their architecture.
We even talked about random things, I felt like wanting to have a beer with them after the interview. My point is interviewing style in India has to change, we need to check if he would be able to fit in the company instead of looking for leetcode monkeys.
stylishjasmine
4mo
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I wrote an in length post about this about an Indian interviewer grilling me to the point that I had an atomic headache, I gave an interview post layoff and the Indian guy literally told me point blank that I 'don't have a CS degree' and that's why I don't know a lot of concepts. Making another person feel down in the industry just because you know more than them, in a sea of knowledge like Tech where there's ENDLESS stuff to learn is extremely shitty, that's where foreign folks excel where they will never belittle you for not knowing something.
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awesomesnail
4mo (edited)
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I remember talking about anime for 5 mins straight with a guy I was interviewing.
People do really great when they are not put on a grill.
a marketing manager
4mo
This is just a side effect of population. Indian interviewers go into an interview expecting to reject a candidate. Because of the low population in Europe they go into a interview expecting to select a candidate.
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johnwick
4mo
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I had a similar experience, but with an Indian startup. The interview was good, it was technical for the interview part and once that was done, we just had casual talks about random stuff. It felt really good to have a casual talk.
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