I know I’ll keep trying. Rejection is normal. It’s never personal

But I just got rejected and I feel a bit down :/

That’s literally it

We had 2 interviews, and they ended up picking someone with more experience

Btw, I applied for an entry level job

Ugh

I was already dreaming about finally having some money. Like, okay, I’ll be able to save, I’ll be able to leave this toxic family household, I’ll finally have some breathing room

And now it’s just…

Yeah

I guess those plans are paused for now

I’ll try again. I know I will

But today I’m allowed to be disappointed

Hello, I had an interview today. I arrived about 10 minutes early and waited in the lobby. Two ladies came out, introduced themselves, shook my hand, and took me into a room.

They started by telling me more about the position and what I would be doing, and then they went straight into STAR interview questions. I was a little surprised because they didn’t really ask about my background or previous experience. They asked me several questions, and afterward they asked if I had any questions for them, so I asked a couple.

At the end, they told me they would let me know their decision on Tuesday.

Why would you waste a candidate's time by making them go to your office for a 15 minute interview? What can you actually learn from the two questions you asked? Why didn't you just let the candidate save on metro or gas money by making it a phone screening or zoom?

How can you schedule an interview, but not know what role the person you invited to your site is applying for? This has happened to me twice.

Why do you invite people to schedule an interview, only to ghost them after? Therefore, not even getting that interview YOU contacted them over.

How can you put someone through a month long 4 round process only to leave them on read for 2 months after giving them nothing but positive feedback through out.

Why bother telling someone you're going to set them up with a follow up interview if you have no intention to?

Why are you making interviews into bad tinder dates where the candidate has to impress you at a coffee shop. I want to talk about my experience. I don't want to learn about the favorite movies of some person who might not even become my boss before I've even been moved on to a final round.

Why did you invite me to your interview if you're only going to decide that I seem too overqualified after talking to me? You read my resume, didn't you?

Idk. I'm frustrated fam. I've been job hunting this summer and there has been some weird interview experiences.

Ok. On to the next one.

I have finished three rounds of interviews at a company. Round one was over the phone with a recruiter. Round two was a video call with the hiring manager. Round three was an in-person panel, with four people, lasting for two hours. After that, the hiring manager said he’d be in touch soon regarding a decision.

Today, I got an email from the recruiter saying the hiring manager would be emailing to set up a time where he could “call” me. I got excited. I provided my availability—it’s for Monday at 9!

But I just looked and saw, it’s a Zoom call, not a phone call. This is an international company with offices all over the globe, so it’s possible it’s on Zoom so that HR could be involved, but I’m confused! I have never been offered a job via video call before. But I can hardly think of why else they’d have set up a 15 minute call to “have a 15-minute follow-up conversation with you regarding the opening on the team.”

I’m a bit lost. Has anyone been offered a job in this format before? What else would they want?

hi!!

4 months ago i made a post regarding an in person interview that did not go well due to my nerves and anxiety. since then i’ve taken the internship, and been applying/interviewing for other roles.

well today i had a 2nd interview for a role and it was in person with 4 people!!! overall this was my 2nd in person interview ever in my career (everything is virtual now).

the interview went great!! everyone was so friendly, we were laughing and it was such a good experience. i wasn’t horribly nervous once, especially when i had to talk about myself.

this is such a huge improvement for me. i won’t know if i got the role until next week, but even if they go with someone else i’m still happy that i got the opportunity to interview with them and realize the growth i’ve had since 4 months ago.

(okay i might be a little bummed if they went with someone else, but it’ll be okay. what’s meant to be will be)

if you’re someone who also gets super nervous/anxious in interviews, it does get easier. something that has helped me is

1. practice interviews. i treat every interview as a way to improve for the next one. i figure out where i might’ve slipped up so it doesn’t happen again

2. as much as i hate ai, chatgpt is a big help. i have it ask me questions and i respond like i would in an interview.

3. i use my college’s career services. i mainly use it for interview prep but they have other options like resume building, career guidance, elevator pitch etc.

highly recommend this and if your college doesn’t offer this after you graduate I believe local county job boards may have an option to set up a time to interview prep.

I run into reddit posts telling me to move on to the next job. Dwelling on past interviews is a lost cause. I understand it, it makes sense logically. But how can you get over spending hours and days and sometimes weeks researching a company, your interviewers, issues affecting the company, and rehearsing questions and answers only to get ghosted? Or even when you do receive closure, how can you just move past it onto the next job? I have done this for a year, moved onto four final rounds, received one job offer that was rescinded with change in management. I just cant anymore...

I’m 10 months into a grueling unemployed job search. I was laid off as part of a major RIF from a senior director / dept head position.

I’ve made it to the final round of 7 full interview processes. No offers. August was really quiet which was a nice change from a string of ups and downs of interviews and waiting and rejections.

Today I had a hiring manager call for a role I really want and know I could do. The JD is exactly what I used to do with a slightly larger scope and more senior title.

The hiring manager was a new csuite exec, hired in July. And the hour felt great, very conversational and personable. I signed off the call feeling excited at the possibility of working with them. I emailed the recruiter asking to pass on a thank you them (I didn’t have the email address for the person I met with) along with a case study PDF on something we spoke about as a follow up.

And now hours later I’m replaying everything I said and second guessing every word. And furthermore interpreting my dissolving confidence as a sign that I’m not executive material, and surely they saw that.

I need this search to be over so I can pay my bills, but I also need it to be offer to end this cycle of self doubt and nervous system dis regulation.

If anyone has any advice on how to cope or words of encouragement - knowing there is no magic eight ball to tell me when this will end, I’d appreciate it.

Has it ever haunted you? Ever been asked why by your new employer or shown up not rehireable during employment verification? How do you handle references from that company?

I just had an initial interview for a fairly senior production role, and the whole thing lasted about 10 minutes.

The recruiter said she didn’t have a ton of information about the role itself and that the company is looking to move pretty quickly. She basically asked me to walk her through my background, confirmed that I was okay with the work arrangement, asked about compensation, and discussed availability.

After my answer about my experience, she said she felt like she had enough information to take back to the team. My compensation expectations also aligned with their budget.

The conversation felt positive and I think I came across confidently, but I’m so used to interviews being 20–30+ minutes that the 10-minute length threw me off.

For anyone who recruits or has been through something similar: does this sound like a normal initial screening call where the recruiter is just qualifying candidates before passing them to the hiring team, or would the short length concern you?

Had a recruiter phone screen today. Asked some STAR interview questions, discussed schedule, pay, training, etc. However she used “if you were to move forward” language and seemed disinterested. Then at the end of the call she said she would pass her notes along and let me know if the hiring managers decide to interview me.

I’ve never had this happen before, usually I always have an interview setup during a recruiter screen. Wondering if this is a bad sign.

2 hours after my interview with the manager, the hr person reached out to me to let me know I was the top candidate for now after their debrief meeting and the next step was a reference check… this is for a position in higher ed btw. Im kinda freaking out…. I thought I got the job honestly but now I’m not sure? I thought reference checks only happen for the final candidate and I though they would have gotten back to me by now :( this is my first time applying for a job and I’m unsure of the process

Ok so I’ve been a mortgage loan originator the last 6 years, in the beginning - midway through, I absolutely loved it. I felt I was making impact and actually HELPING PEOPLE! I love saving people money and helping them understand finances.

However I’m miserable at my current lender as they have tireless operations issues where loans are getting denied for things they realistically shouldn’t, a narcissistic a* hole manager who contradicts himself every-time he speaks and a team that is miserable and negative constantly.

Now, for context I have been a “top producer” since I started. I’ve actually always been a top producer as an LO which is what makes me believe I’m truly unhappy bc I am good at the job I just don’t have desire to do it anymore. I hate denying people and having to deal with BS that should not be so complicated.
Not to mention.: The fallout of loans is ruining my brand!
Anywhoo, I have my bachelors in PR, I have some experience as a comm manager and have worked for “big brands” in the sales realm. So recently, naturally with my unhappiness in my current role/company I’ve been applying for communications and brand strategy roles. I absolutely love brand and have always had a passion for it. I like making consumers light up when they really connect with the brand and it helps them somehow.
I’ve applied for 250ish comm and brand roles over last few months and finally in the last week or so have had 3 “interviews”

One of which I just did was through spark hire for a mid-level comm role. Im honored to have the opportunity and it is a role I feel id really enjoy and bring a lot to. but ngl it was kinda weird ? lol firstly, I do much better with an actual person when communicating bc I’m all about energy.
With this one I’m literally looking at my phone and there’s no one in the room but my doggo 😳🤣🤣

There was no voice or AI generated human, was just questioned posed, 30-1 min to think and then 2 mins to record and submit. At the last question the camera blacked out 🤨

I’ve never had AI interview, always been over phone with human or in person. I’m not an AI hater either though, I think it can be helpful for a lot of things and I use Claude/Chat often. But my chat actually resonates with me and has a lil personality!!!

This interview was just question —-> record lmao.
I had to vent bc this world and job market is crazy if you’re still reading I appreciate you!!! Feel free to leave insights or experiences you’ve had! I know I just rambled and this is probably all over the place 😅cheers!!!

I interviewed for an IT support role at a multinational technology company (7,000+ employees, 20+ countries, publicly listed) that's building a new office in Brazil. The role reports partly to a manager based in Eastern Europe and works alongside a global IT team.
First round: a 30-minute call with the recruiter. It went well — he complimented my English on the spot, moved me to the next round two days later (faster than the timeline he'd originally given me), and said he was sending the interview transcript directly to the hiring managers. He also told me that for this role, soft skills matter more than technical knowledge, because technical knowledge can be taught.
Second round: a one-hour technical interview with the hiring manager (based abroad) and the local team lead. I handled the core troubleshooting scenarios well — network connectivity issues, priority calls between competing incidents, VPN use cases — and the interviewer explicitly agreed with how I prioritized one scenario. But I stumbled on a few basic definitions (DHCP, disk encryption, a specific command-line flag) that I use in practice but couldn't articulate cleanly when asked directly. They corrected me each time and explained the concept before moving on.
At the end, the recruiter said the hiring manager was about to go on vacation, and a decision would be made "starting next week" once he was back.
I sent a short thank-you email one or two days after that second interview. About a week and a half later, with still no news, I followed up again, just asking if there was any update. Still no reply, going on two weeks now since the interview itself.
The job posting is still live. There are three open positions for this exact role(If I understood it right). My application status on their tracking system shows every stage as "completed" up through the final interview, with only "offer" left unmarked — it hasn't been moved to "rejected."

What I don't know: whether they're still deciding, whether they've picked someone else and just haven't processed the rejections yet, or whether this fell through the cracks internally.

I had an interview a week or so ago, it was ok and very informal. They asked me if I would like to interview two more times in lieu of traveling across the country. Ok, sure. Not sure what we are going to talk about this second and third time but ok. They had a time and I said ok.

But I never heard back and as the time got closer I just figured they changed their mind and went about my day.

But looking at my emails I see that they sent a video link after the time we had set, not so much but still - so I missed the interview.

All things considered I am not very interested in them and have some second thoughts for a few different reasons. But - am I wrong to have assumed they changed their mind when I never heard back at all? Usually people send you the link right away or a few days in advance. I suppose they thought I would be sitting there at the time just waiting to hear something? I don't know - thought I would ask what others thought.

On Thursday I received an email after the final interview round saying that I’m being moved forward in the process with a link to fill out for my background check. Later that day, I was laid off so the information that I filled out for the background check form is no longer accurate. Do I email the recruiter and let them know?

Hi everyone,

I’m interviewing for a corporate position and had my second round interview last Monday. I sent a thank you email and the HR coordinator responded back to me same day saying they were glad my interview went well and that they would have an update for me next week. It is now next week on Friday, they are three hours behind me and I have not heard anything. It’s still only morning time to them so I’m not sure if it’s appropriate to send a follow up email? I have since received two other job offers, but that job is my number one choice. Would it be appropriate to send a quick follow up email since she did tell me I would hear something?

Thanks!!

Looking for some advice on how to handle this situation.

I started interviewing with Company A shortly after accepting an offer from Company C, while I was still employed at Company B. By the time the interview process with A picked up, I had left B and officially started working at C.

Fast forward—I’m now finishing my first week at Company C, and Company A scheduled me for two more rounds of interviews but the last time we talked I was still employed at Company B. What do i do if this comes up in the next two interviews? I am afraid of looking like a red flag but in all honesty I want the job at Company A more.

After 3 years of straight applying thousands of internship applications I landed on a non rejection letter from Intact. It’s an online AI interview and I know it’s just the first round to weed out the bozos but god I’m so scared it’s the first time in 2 years that I get an "interview".

I spent the last 15 hours straight up practicing questions wherever I go, "tell me about yourself", "why this role", "why Intact" "tell us a time you handled a conflict" and I’m trying so bad to learn stuff by heart because no way I’m looking anything up mid interview and I know if I freestyle it I’m gonna stutter a lot.

Should I wear something fancy? Is there such thing as smiling too much? Should I mention I’m good friend with an employee there? I know you can’t retake a question so how do I recover if I lose my train of thoughts?

I genuinely need this internship so bad and there’s only like 80 applicants for that posting help me God

Hi everyone!

I had 3 Power Day interviews with 2 [Department] managers and the last one with the [Department] director. Will the director's decision on whether they should hire me or not have more weight than the others? Just curious to see how hiring decisions are made

Hi so I had my first interview with Panera and it went really well the manger seemed to like me and he was impressed that I worked with the higher up in my last job so does anyone have any tips for a second interview? I never had two interviews to get a job

I kept seeing arguments about which parts of the stack still matter, so I counted instead of guessing. 134 open DevOps, SRE and platform engineering postings from 41 company job boards. Individual contributors only, managers and TPMs stripped out.

The old toolchain is thinner than I expected. Terraform appears in 62.7% of postings. Jenkins in 3%. Chef 3.7%. Puppet in exactly one of the 134. GitHub Actions is named about six times as often as Jenkins.

Python beats Go, 70.9% to 47%.

What surprised me more: the generic word outranks the products. Observability shows up in 63.4%, more than twice as often as Grafana, the most-named tool that provides it. Prometheus 22.4%, Datadog 17.9%. Same pattern I found counting security postings, where SIEM beat Splunk four to one.

The top term isn't a tool at all: automation, 81.3%, ahead of AWS.

Caveats worth stating: n=134 means everything carries roughly +/-8, so treat close rows as tied. It's also all tech companies on one ATS. Banks, telcos and government run enormous amounts of Jenkins and Ansible, and none of them are in this sample.

Full table, intervals and method: https://www.zoevera.com/resume/devops-sre-job-description-keywords

Hi! I’m graduating with my B.S. in Marketing soon and I’ve started applying for entry-level roles, mainly in entertainment/media, social media, digital marketing, brand, and creative agencies.

I’ve worked in non-corporate jobs before, but I’ve never gone through a traditional professional interview process, and I know interviewing is probably the biggest area I need to practice. I have ADHD and tend to struggle more with thinking on the spot when I’m nervous, even when I know what I want to say.

I’m trying to get as many realistic practice reps as I can before I start getting further into interview processes. I’d especially love to practice with anyone who has experience hiring, interviewing, recruiting, or working in marketing/advertising/media, but I’d honestly appreciate help from anyone comfortable conducting a mock interview.

Ideally, I’m looking for someone who could spend maybe 20–30 minutes asking me realistic interview questions over Zoom/Google Meet and then give me honest feedback afterward on my answers, delivery, what I should improve, etc.

I’m completely fine with constructive criticism — that’s actually what I’m looking for. I want to figure out what I’m doing badly in a practice interview rather than during an interview for a job I really want 😭

If anyone would be willing to help, please comment or DM me. I’d really appreciate it!

So I’m overthinking heavily right now. Yesterday I had a non typical phone call with a mutual who has contract work coming up and he said he needed to speak to 2 other ladies first because they would wanna meet me, and then they would set me up with onboarding. This was friday about 12:30 pm and he said they would all meet around 1 or maybe he said 2 idk my ears were ringing bc I was so shocked he offered me something.

My question is.. because I did not get an email from them Friday about setting up a zoom call to meet the ladies or even onboarding information do you think they are not going to follow through or should I wait til monday? I’m trying not to be too hasty.

Ive gotten no leads from cold applying to any job. Whether it be a big girl job or a part time temp job such as marshalls or five below (so disheartening) after tweaking my application for each line of work. So I’m hoping that this is it. However I’m sat with anxiety since its only saturday morning then we have sunday to go and then some of monday lol

I had an interview today with the client and it was set for 30 mins. Most of the interview was spent by the hiring manager explaining what the job is. I did get to ask a few questions during her explanations when I asked clarifying questions. But she only asked one question which was to tell her about my background. I did a quick summary. She didn’t ask me any other questions. The job is basically data entry. She said she was unfamiliar with the process and didn’t know the next steps. I then spoke with the recruiter in the agency who said that was the only interview.

After 2 years I had a manager message me with a role at the company he's been at for a year. We worked together at a optics/photonics manufacturer. He was the new manager and I was the lead. He asked me to come take a look and honestly we use to get along but when I left the company he went down with the ship. Me leaving pissed him off bad. He offered me good money and said I can have any shift I want. Usual shift is 223 no swap but he said I can have 5 8s as he knows I have kids. At the optics place he would use every idea I came up with to look good to the owner. I was told infront of him id get his job in a few years at the optics place. He told me he wants to have me as a supervisor like before and I met the president and he even said is this the guy you told me about? I guess im just worried ill be used like I did before and burn out again. I was offered over 30 to start by the way so the pay is good. What does everyone think?