![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The basic disappointment is that, contrary to what I was expecting, I only got to talk to the HR person, not to the person who I would actually be working for. Depending on what Jennifer, the HR person, thinks of me/tells the person who's doing the hiring, I may be asked to come back for a second interview.
I'm much less optimistic than I was this morning, in part beause the HR person didn't really seem to know what to ask. Among other things, she spent time on "how did you hear about this position?" (which we'd already covered on the phone) and on asking me about other job interviews I'd been on. I was prepared to talk about my skills and experience, and what I have to offer, not about companies that didn't appreciate my brilliance enough to hire me. (I have no idea why she asked about that.) She also focused more on the recent freelance stuff--which I had to keep sorting out for her, as she confused projects with each other---than on my work at ACM, I'd guess because it's most recent. For about half the interview, there was another person sitting in, listening, in order to "help Jennifer improve her interviewing skills." So now I can't help but wonder if they called lots of people for interviews, as practice.
On the positive side, getting there was easy (A to West 4th, 2 blocks on foot, and PATH from Ninth Street to Hoboken), and it isn't too horribly hot out. Carrying the blazer but wearing wool pants, I didn't overheat, though I wouldn't have wanted to spend all day outdoors like that. And my wonderful![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cattitude came and met me on a bench near the subway on the way home, bearing sandals to replace the tight interview shoes, then listened to me bitch most of the way home.
I'm much less optimistic than I was this morning, in part beause the HR person didn't really seem to know what to ask. Among other things, she spent time on "how did you hear about this position?" (which we'd already covered on the phone) and on asking me about other job interviews I'd been on. I was prepared to talk about my skills and experience, and what I have to offer, not about companies that didn't appreciate my brilliance enough to hire me. (I have no idea why she asked about that.) She also focused more on the recent freelance stuff--which I had to keep sorting out for her, as she confused projects with each other---than on my work at ACM, I'd guess because it's most recent. For about half the interview, there was another person sitting in, listening, in order to "help Jennifer improve her interviewing skills." So now I can't help but wonder if they called lots of people for interviews, as practice.
On the positive side, getting there was easy (A to West 4th, 2 blocks on foot, and PATH from Ninth Street to Hoboken), and it isn't too horribly hot out. Carrying the blazer but wearing wool pants, I didn't overheat, though I wouldn't have wanted to spend all day outdoors like that. And my wonderful
cattitude came and met me on a bench near the subway on the way home, bearing sandals to replace the tight interview shoes, then listened to me bitch most of the way home.