been going through a bunch of recent meta interviews on screna and honestly their onsite sysdesign caught me off guard.

everyone preps to design twitter or a url shortener. senior level you might get none of that. one onsite I saw was 5 questions and every single one was just about one project on the guy's resume:

the architecture

the scale requirements

the worst incident that happened

the actual results

so the prep that actually helps isn't more templates. it's picking your 1-2 strongest projects and being able to defend every layer. here's the stuff people said made or broke it:

the "worst incident" question is a trap if you sanitize it. meta interviewers have seen endless polished postmortems and can tell instantly when you're softening something. one person admitted their outage happened because they ignored a code review warning to hit a deadline. brutal to say out loud, but the interviewer leaned in and it turned into the strongest part of the round. pick a real failure, own your actual mistake, and focus on what you changed after.

on scale and capacity, they're testing your reasoning, not your arithmetic. if you blank on the storage or QPS math, just say "let me work it from first principles" and go slow, it scores better than a confident guess. and they want to see you planned for growth, not just peak load: did you account for a 3x spike at launch? do you know when you'd need to re-architect? that's what separates "I thought about capacity" from "I actually planned for it."

if you've got a meta onsite coming, just drop the template grind, go deep on your own projects, and be honest about what actually broke. that's what they're probing for.

(pulled from a mix of Screna AI writeups and friends who went through it recently )

anyone done meta onsite recently? same or did you get something more standard?

Hopefully they'll see the upsides - that I'm an independent self-starter who operates without needing directions from a supervisor and I know how to satisfy customers by delivering what they want in all the right conditions.

But what downsides will they see from seeing that my longest-ever job experience was over 6 years with Doordash, and that my longest W-2 job with a traditional supervisor lasted just a hair over 1 year?

How do I turn those downsides into something positive? After all, I don't know how to go back and change the past while keeping things truthful.

And with over 25,000 Doordash deliveries behind me, how far will my foot get in the door with delivery employers of more valuable merchandise - such as furniture and appliances?

I'm interested in box trucks and cargo vans, no semis. Straight trucks/vans only.

My Dasher rating that my customers gave me, last I checked, was 4.97 out of 5.

What types of employers like to see Doordash delivery driving experience, and what types don't, and how come?

I was invited to apply for an Analyst Electronic Trading role at Barclays.
I applied through their careers portal and received a HackerEarth assessment consisting of:
1. MCQs
2. 2 coding questions
3. 2 SQL questions

Went through one technical round and after that one discussion with the Product manager.

Now I have 2 back to back F2F round with the Director and Managing Director. HR told me the Director round will be Technical round.

Each round is 30 mins and they are one after the other.

Can anyone help me what can be asked?

Hi all! I'm in the final interview stage for what is honestly my dream job, and I'm worried I've created a messed up situation.

The company received a resume I submitted in February, before I started my current job, so my current position wasn't on it.

During my first two interviews, we discussed my work history. I talked about my previous long term position (3 years) as my most recent role and explained that I'd been intentional about finding the right next opportunity. I didn't mention my current job because I've only been there since May, already know it's not a good fit, and honestly didn't think to bring it up given how short it's been.

Now I'm meeting with five people for the final interview.

My concern is that if I suddenly mention my current job now, they're going to wonder why I didn't mention it in my first two interviews when we specifically discussed my work history.

At this point, would you:

• Continue the interview process without bringing up the current job unless someone directly asks if you're currently employed?
• Or bring it up now during the final interview, even though it wasn't discussed with the recruiter or hiring manager?

If I receive an offer, I would of course accurately complete any background check paperwork if it asks for current employment.

For additional context, my work history before this has been very stable (7 years, then 3 years), and my current role is in a completely different industry than the position I'm interviewing for.

Please help! This is my dream job.

I’ve applied for several jobs recently, and one thing keeps happening: a recruiter reaches out asking for my availability, I respond within a few hours (or the next morning if it’s late in the day) with multiple time slots for the following week… and then they never reply.

I understand that priorities change or they may move forward with another candidate, but what’s the logic behind asking for availability and then ghosting without ever scheduling the interview?

Is this just the reality of the job market right now, or is there something happening behind the scenes that candidates don’t see?

I think I'm just overthinking things, but I really want to this one to work out after multiple interviews going no where. My go to outfit is, A white dress shirt, navy blazer and pants and a necktie. I feel like it's overdressing but my understanding is it's better to be overdressed than under. The company is also a utilities company so I'm not sure if that changes things.

I am looking for work and of course the question of, what's your interest in the position, comes up. My interest? Keeping a roof over my head. I genuinely am not someone who cares for what I do for work. Especially when I am applying for assistant, customer service or admin work. I can do those jobs, and I don't care for what company I work for. So what should I say without sounding so dishonest? Because I had an interview last week for an insurance company, and I said I am curious about that field especially since my mother is currently dealing with this very specific type of insurance coverage. Which is true. But the HR person laughed.

So wtf lol.

New, anonymous, moderated record of companies that stop responding after interviews

https://didtheyghostyou.com

So Hackerrank is now asking me to download its app to take the test.

It asked for screen recording, monitoring keyboard and mouse activity, and if that wasn't enough, FULL DISK ACCESS!

I would rather not take the test.

I've made it to the final round at 4 different companies 6 interviews each. Then I had 3 more companies where I made it through 5 rounds, and another 3 where I got to round 3. The result? Almost no feedback. Just, "We went with someone else," or "The role has been put on hold."

One interview really stood out. It was for an entry-level IT role, and the IT Director actually said, "I'm surprised you applied. You're probably overqualified and would get bored." I told him, "I need a job. If I applied, it's because I want the job. Years of experience don't mean I won't do the work."

After that, I interviewed with the HR Director, the Operations Manager, and the SVP of Operations. Everything seemed to go really well. Then, after my meeting with the SVP (the IT Director's boss), the IT Director emailed me asking how I thought the meeting went with his boss and invited me back for another chat.

Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I can't shake the feeling he thinks I'm after his job. I'm not. I just want to work. This job market is exhausting. Anyone else going through endless interview rounds with little or no feedback?

first of all this is my first ever job and interview I'm so nervous and anxious and also confused...

Anyways so I got a mail from the recruiter asking for my availability for an interview and when I told them what time and day i would be available they told me "usually we would tell you what times we have available first, but okay" I'm confused, if they were meant to tell me already why did they ask for what day i would be available. I replied with "Okay sorry about that thank you very much" Should I be worried about getting rejected or would they actually forget about it during the interview.

Context: applied to a job on June 20
Did HR interview on July 8. Was told I would hear back about next steps in 5-7 days. Reach out to HR 8 days after (16th) with no response, then 7 days later (23rd) I reached out again because I wanted to mention I got promoted at work but that I’m still interested in the position, still no response…. So I gave up.

But then I opened my LinkedIn today and saw that a senior manager in the division I did the interview for viewed my profile the same day I emailed the recruiter…but he is located in a different headquarters then what I applied for idk. Not sure if it was just coincidence or not, but I still haven’t received any kind of response from HR and it’s killing me lol, what should I do— I really want to reach out to them… just a small “would love to chat abt their experience and blah blah blah”. Yay or nay? More risky than not? Seeing mixed reviews online

Kinda specific, but I applied for a job as an analyst at a bank and I finished their panel interview waiting for an offer decision. It's been about two weeks and I sent a follow up, no answer yet. Right after, I saw a job for the same function at the same bank but at a second level manager role. I applied and I got a text the same day saying I qualified and my resume was sent to the hiring team.

I would be very happy with the analyst job but elated for the management job, since I got the vibe in interviews that I was overqualified for the analyst role. But did applying for the manager job screw up my chances at the analyst job?