The interview asked questions about my experiences. Asked about challenges I had experienced in a recent project. This is the first stage of the interview, there will be a 2nd stage to determine if an offer will be given or not.
Interviewed over teams. 2 stage interview process. I was invited to a "2nd and final" interview, but pulled out after the first.
I was meant to be interviewed by two people. One was their current Development Manager, the other the CTO. Only the former turned up. The CTO hadn't communicated to the interviewer that did show up that he would be carrying the interview on his own.
The interview was fairly easy. Although I have some reservations over the technical choices the company has made. The main issue was that the person who interviewed me is leaving, so anything I agreed with them would be moot by the time I started work. And the interviewer that didn't show up is the person whose vision I'd have needed to implement. So I really needed to meet them to make an informed choice about working here.
The recruiter who set up the interview said that the CTO was probably busy. But the reason C-level employees are usually busy is that they don't have the right staff to delegate parts of the company's responsibilities to. And you only improve that situation by investing time in your own recruitment process. I'm sure if I hadn't turned up to the interview, they'd have come to similar conclusions about my level of professionalism as I did theirs.
Although I was invited to a 2nd interview, I declined the invitation. Because you can't help people who won't invest their own time in their own problems.
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The interview was NOT one-sided. It was very much a process of finding the right fit for both the company and the job seeker. The interviewer was good at interviewing people.
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