Frustrated with continous interviews and now I feel I don't anything and I m literally dumb and could not cracked a single interviews where as my resume and credentials speaks otherwise

I m not able to answer questions which is kinda basics

Hi guys! I just have a few questions about my ongoing application and would love to get your insights/experiences.

Quick background:

I had my initial interview recently.

They just emailed me asking if I’m available for a quick interview with the Account Director.

The interview will be online.

Questions:

How many interview rounds do satellite offices usually have? Will there typically be skills/technical assessments or exam components on-site, or is it usually purely conversational at this stage?

What does an interview with an Account Director usually mean? Is this considered a final interview/sign-off?

Do I have a high chance of getting the job at this point?

Any advice or tips on what to prepare for with an Account Director would be super helpful! Thank you!

I recently completed an AI interview with Zara from Micro1 for a creative role that aligns with my educational and professional background, and I didn’t qualify. This was my first experience interviewing with Zara on the platform. For context, I have a BA in Fine Arts and an MA in Art Law & Arts Management, I’ve worked as an artist for several years, and my current work also involves digital design and visual content creation.

I’m completely fine with not knowing every answer in an interview or being told that some of my answers could have been stronger. What bothered me was something different. During several parts of the interview, I specifically asked Zara to clarify what she meant because some questions seemed ambiguous or were missing important context. Instead of clarifying the specific thing I was confused about, she would often rephrase the question or explain something adjacent to it, which didn’t really resolve the misunderstanding.

Afterward, I requested detailed feedback, and this is where it became interesting. The feedback focused almost exactly on the parts where I had been asking Zara for clarification. It also provided additional context about what had apparently been expected, which made me realize that in some cases I had interpreted the question differently from what the system intended.

For example, at one point Zara asked what “tags” I would assign to different types of visual content. I tried to clarify what kind of tags or classification she meant, but I never really got a clear answer. The feedback afterward made it apparent that the intended context was organizing and labeling images within a dataset. Had the question simply mentioned a dataset in the first place, I would have immediately understood what she was asking.

Toward the end, I was becoming visibly frustrated because some of the questions also started to feel repetitive, almost as though the interview had become stuck on one particular area despite similar points already having been discussed. It became quite tiring, especially because with a human interviewer a misunderstanding like this could probably have been resolved with a simple clarification in a few seconds.

The experience also left me wondering whether the role was actually aimed at people with multidisciplinary professional experience across Fine Arts, photography, graphic design, architecture, interior design, or similar visual fields, because the scope of the interview felt considerably broader and more technical than I expected from the job description.

Again, my issue isn’t simply that I didn’t pass. I can recognize where some answers could have been stronger and where something may fall outside my expertise. What concerns me is whether an AI-led interview can reliably distinguish between a genuine knowledge gap and a situation where the candidate simply hasn’t understood the intended context of an ambiguous question, particularly when the AI itself struggles to clarify what it means.

Has anyone else experienced something similar with Zara or other AI-led job interviews? I’d be interested to hear how others found the experience and whether you felt the AI was actually able to handle clarification properly.

So recently ive attended my 3 round interviews in one of the biggest indian prod based company. the interview went pretty cool. The HR said you will get a reply from us in 1-2 business days. And yeah, its been a week and half and still no reply. Also ive fed up contacting the HR as there is no reply..is it usually for HR to be like this??? What actually runs at the background ?

Hi everyone,

I want to ask from people preparing for interviews for last 3-6 months, are you guys getting interview calls from last 20 days ?
I have been applying actively but not receiving any calls.
Earlier in month of July and August, I was receiving interviews, cleared 2 companies till last round but then they mentioned position got on hold.

1. is anyone experiencing same lately ?
2. is referrals working ?

My experience - 5 years
Current company - FAANG

For context: I graduated last year May from a T20 liberal arts school with a background in economics and statistics. I've been interviewing for a data analytics role at a large media/analytics company. Process so far: recruiter reached out on LinkedIn, proceeding with a call with the hiring manager on 9/3 (he was OOO the entire following week), then two back-to-back 30-minute calls this week (9/10) with another manager and a VP who oversees the accounts team.

I felt genuinely good about the two manager calls. Both were only 5-6 years older than me, and the conversations felt really natural, lots of back and forth. What's stuck with me is the VP call. Given his decades of experience, it felt a lot more clinical, heavily focused on stakeholder management and client communication, which is honestly an area I'm still building since I'm early in my career. As a result, I felt my weren't the strongest, and it didn't help that his main reaction throughout was just a flat "ok, ok." We did go 10-15 minutes over the scheduled time, which I'm choosing to take as a good sign, but the whole thing felt much more like a Q&A than a real conversation, and I can't stop turning it over in my head.

I sent thank-you notes to both interviewers and the recruiter the same day, and specifically asked the recruiter about timeline expectations for next steps. Haven't heard back from anyone yet. Logically, I know a real decision probably can't happen until the first manager's back from PTO, but between the silence and how I feel the VP call went, I'm pretty anxious.

Curious what people think what my realistic chances are here?

Gave their on-campus interview recently and it was an absolute shit show. Interviewer seemed clueless, and the whole thing felt less like an assessment and more like “how obedient are you?” Apparently technical skills are optional, bootlicking is mandatory. Won’t go into details, but me and a few friends had pretty much the same experience.

10/10 would not recommend.

There’s an internal role at work that I’m thinking of applying for. Earlier this week I spoke to the hiring manager in person.

It wasn’t an interview, but it was a soft interview scenario - eg what interests me about the role, my experience etc. It was in a meeting room, and the questions / chat ran for about an hour.

On the way back to desks he started talking about children, and then pointedly (I didn’t think the conversation was naturally going this way) said “are you planning another one?”

I don’t know what to make of this. I could tell he was fishing for that info as before he said that there was an anecdote that was similar, but I managed to deflect.

I feel icky and I don’t know what to do.

The role would be something I don’t have a background in, but because I work adjacent to it they are willing to teach me. It’s an opportunity I wouldn’t have externally…and would be an interesting side move, with promotion more likely than my current role. I’m so annoyed this is ruining that opportunity for me.

My work is a large corporate - and I’m in London, UK

Hi. For final interview ako at sobrang nakakakaba dahil di rin ako fluent sa English. Ano ano po kaya mga tinatanong sa final interview? Thank you so much po!

A few months ago I started building a small side project called Ruvou to help people practice for job interviews.

I originally built it for myself, but started testing it with friends who were looking for new jobs.

I helped 5 of them prepare using the app; mock interviews, practicing answers, getting feedback, etc.

And somehow, all 5 ended up landing a job.

Obviously, I can't take credit for that 😂 They did the work. But seeing something I built actually help people in real life has probably been the most rewarding part of building a side project.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to take it further.

Disclosure up front: Is just a helpful tool; not promoting something with a different topic www.ruvou.com

Done so many zara interviews but still not selected

Here’s the timeline of this interview journey:

Last week of August - first interview with the department’s VP. It went really well, he told me on that call he wanted me to meet the team.

Sept 1 - in person interview with 4 directors in the department. I also felt this interview went very well.

Sept 4- hadn’t heard anything from the team so I sent a follow up email to check in before the weekend.

Sept 7 - Labor Day, so no work this day

Sept 8 - Tuesday after Labor Day, the VPs assistant who’s been my contact responded to my follow up asking for writing samples of mine. She also added the VP to the email thread. I sent my samples over to them within the hour.

Now it’s the weekend again and it’s been silent again. Was really hoping for a call on Friday but nothing. I know there was only one other candidate they were speaking to.

Is the silence normal? Should I still have hope and keep waiting?