your first interview with the company is with them? interesting. meeting the president gives me the impression it's a small company. so i guess the GM would likely be your direct supervisor?

the best way to use your time is refreshing yourself with everything on your resume.

Yeah it's a small company. I'm not 100% sure, I thought I at least would be speaking with an HR or PR, but got an email back from the President. Exciting!

She also asked if I had a 2.5 hour block of time for the interview process which makes me wonder if they are allowing for that if they really like me then I can finish paper work and such right there, or they have a skills test of some sort which makes me nervous because considering I do not have the work experience I'm not sure I have the skill set to do this. (Might be underselling my self, just really nervous)

But okay I'll take a look over my resume and what I've done. Thanks for all the great advice, as always!

i doubt it's for paperwork. i'm guessing it's more like 1.5hr interview, but 2.5 is just to be safe. i mentioned earlier there's usually 2 interviews (techie first, HR second). looks like yours are just combined into 1. probably your supervisor will meet you at the entrance, bring you around the suite briefly, say hi to a few different departments, maybe show you the server room, then go to the main interview with techies. stay there 30-60 min. then go talk to HR / president. maybe 30 min there. the president usually talks about company. he'll explain what the company does, his vision for expansion over the next year, what direction they're heading, are they gaining a second suite / moving to another building, etc. then you meet supervisor again who'll walk you out. he might ask you what salary you want and talk about benefits.

from my experience, they call/email to say they wanna extend an offer within a day or two. then you talk about salary / benefits / etc. once you settle on everything, they send you an official offer letter which you sign and send back. then on the first day of work you meet with HR to do paperwork and install software on your computer.

you should never accept an offer immediately, so companies usually don't extend an offer immediately at the end of the interview or force paperwork on you. it'll feel like the company is bullying you into signing, which employees don't want. so they wait until you leave the office to give you an offer and give you time to think about it. then after you know you want the job and accepted it, they give you paperwork. note that this is different from a min wage mcdonalds job where you fill out a job application in order to get an interview.

/edit: they also wait until you leave for their safety. if you always get an offer in person, then candidates know they didnt get the job if the interview doesnt end with an offer. some candidates might rage and threaten to hurt people. by waiting until you're home, candidates are always on their best behavior and won't throw anyone out the window

This post was edited by carteblanche on Jul 28 2015 07:28pm

Ah this sounds much better, thank you for explaining this to me. Was expecting a harsh 3 on 1 or 2 on 1 with just drilling questions or such.

Haha true true! I wouldn't ever do that, not my type or personality.

i was talking to a non-techie coworker, and her interviews are usually 1 on 1 with different people. when i told her my interviews are usually a group of people at once, she was like WTF. it's different for techies. all the developers/techies have the same questions for you, so it's not unusual to be in a room with several techies at once so they can all hear your answers. so don't panic if you see 5 people in the interview room. i doubt they'll be harsh on you.

good luck and let us know how it turns out!

Just finished the interview, I must say it went well for the most part and then we got to the computer questions and I felt like a dumb ass. I knew some but felt like I should have known a lot more... They had highlighted questions which I couldn't answer.

But other than that I felt I did alright! Just hoping for a call back within the next month.

so..what was the interview process like? whom did you meet, what kind of questions did they ask, are there any hot coworkers, etc

Didn't see any hot coworkers, but then again I was pretty isolated to being interviewed by 3 people and then a person over the phone. Gm, Eningeer, an IT and president of the company.

Started with asking general stuff, tell them about my self, generalized questions, if you could redo something, bad qualities, good qualities, etc...

Then it went to computer science questions which I kinda butchered, I really need to do some more studying on that shit because cripes all mighty I knew certain stuff but had no clue wtf half the other shit was. (this is where they told me not to be nervous, but yet it was the worst part of the whole fucking thing)

Then it was back to them telling me about the company, asking a few more questions, I asked some shit, and then that was about it.

I didn't get a tour, which I realized as soon as I walked out the door I fucked up and probably should have asked for one... :/

Regardless if I get the job or not, (probably doubtful) but it was a good first interview experience. I know what to expect for computer questions and such.

Super nice people, they were always trying to make me feel comfortable and relaxed, not nervous. (However, that changed with the computer science questions)

you should make a brain dump of all the IT questions they asked. then when you get home, study them so next time they come up in an interview you will know the answer. dont just google the answer and memorize it, but try to understand it. future questions might be very related.

it couldn't hurt to email them too. say you researched the questions and here are your answers. best case scenario it shows initiative that you can find answers to questions you dont know, worse case scenario they laugh at you behind your back.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Aug 3 2015 09:21pm

Yes true true! That's a better way of thinking of it, I will do this for sure!