An unpleasant job interview experience
A job interview I had a few months ago that went terribly badly was for a very junior internal position that I really only applied for because some of my colleagues had encouraged me to go for it. It got off to a bad start with the first question: why do you think you're the best person for this role? That threw me - how could I honestly say I was the best person? What I wanted to be asked was: why are you interested in this role? Then I was asked to describe when I had used a technology at work. This threw me as well - it was such a basic question. Where would I even begin? Here I am writing about technology in a blog! Further very simple questions followed which I stumbled over as I was not expecting them. I had expected a more relaxed, conversational style interview about the job and why I wanted it. But it became clear that the interviewers were pretending that they did not know me, that I had not worked in the libr...

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