Interview Frustrations
My main takeaway from this article is that the author wasn&#x27;t necessarily frustrated with spending 12 hours to prepare a 1-hour long presentation - though this does seem like a big ask - but was more frustrated that they didn&#x27;t even get the opportunity to present it because the company was<p>&gt; looking for someone with a few years of experience working with a specific technology I had never used. But… they knew that from my resume. And from my first interview. And from my second interview. And when they told me that I needed to prep a talk.<p>Shouldn&#x27;t the company have seen this deal breaker before the interview process started? Or at least after the first interview or two? Acknowledging that the author wasn&#x27;t the right fit would have saved both the company and the candidate the time and effort of going through an interview process that the company should have known wouldn&#x27;t yield an offer.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if this is common practice, but I&#x27;ve encountered something similar, going through multiple rounds of interviews over many hours only to have the recruiter tell me that &quot;based on your resume, you don&#x27;t have the skills we&#x27;re looking for in a candidate for this position&quot;. Why waster my time, and yours, going through the interview process then?<p>I don&#x27;t think any of these rationales are very satisfying, but here are some possibilities:
1) The company didn&#x27;t know what it was looking for when it started the process and came to a different understanding of the job requirements as the candidate moved deeper in the process.
2) The company is covering up the real reason they didn&#x27;t want to move forward and &quot;lack of relevant skill&quot; is an easy excuse.
3) The company&#x27;s recruiting process is immature&#x2F;messy&#x2F;sloppy&#x2F;ineffective and they literally missed the lack of required skills until the very end.
4) The position had to be filled and the company wanted to maintain a backup candidate in case their first choice didn&#x27;t work out.<p>I&#x27;d love to hear from those with experience on the recruiting&#x2F;hiring manager side to see whether any of these reasons ring true or if something else might be at play.