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John Crickett's avatar

“You really impressed the team. They’d love to move forward.”

And then:

“We’re offering one level below the original scope"

Is dishonest, dodged a bullet there.

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Caroline Mendonca Costa's avatar

This resonates with me a lot. Specially about take home exercises and interviewer behaviour.

If you're in a full time job it's very difficult to dedicate much time to take home exercises, so when you're competing with people are not working you're unlikely to win if the assessment values how much stuff you include. I tend to say no to these if they are very large or don't have clear scope.

On interviewer behaviour, I once dropped out of a process because the CTO was arrogant and condescending. They tried to get me back into the process by arranging a follow up call with him. My first impression was re-enforced when I tried to discuss compensation and he refused to do so. The process included a 3 hour presentation in PhD viva style, while I was juggling multiple interview processes. So I was very happy to sit that one out.

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