Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by x00gler123 3941 days ago
But how could this have been a more stellar experience for you? Should they have given you a consolidation price?

Job interviews are a business transaction (after all you are there because you want their money). Not hiring you is fair game and once they have decided/committed to pass on the opportunity it wouldn't be rational to waste money by continuing a pointless discussion.
3 comments
coldtea 3941 days ago
>But how could this have been a more stellar experience for you? Should they have given you a consolidation price?

If we ignore that they asked him programming questions not relevant to his position, there's the whole "they didn't even know they interviewed me, so they called me again to ask me the same exact things" FAIL, plus the lie about "we'll call you in 6 months".

link
Someone1234 3941 days ago
> But how could this have been a more stellar experience for you?

Are you joking? Did you even read their post. The guy literally called and asked the same set of questions twice, then didn't follow through with what they said they would do.

I cannot believe you're even asking "how could this have been a more stellar experience for you?" the gall.

link
mynameisvlad 3941 days ago
I mean, not parent commenter, but I'd expect, y'know, the recruiter to actually remember giving the exact same preliminary interview to the same candidate a week earlier.
link
brianwawok 3941 days ago
Was it the same interviewer? Maybe there are 10 interviewers going off the same script.

Interviewer 1 called OP and asked questions. Then it was lunch time and he forgot to put result in the CMS.

So the same guy popped up a week later to Interviewer 2. He was reading off the same script, so of course his questions are the same. Not his fault, or Google's per say - Interviewer 1 happened to forget a step. (Which is sad, but we all make mistakes!)

link
mynameisvlad 3941 days ago
> I felt I should tell him that he asked me these questions before.

The way it was phrased implied that it was the same person (would have otherwise been "I had been asked these questions before")

link
dijit 3941 days ago
it was the same guy, we'd spoken before on Linkedin.
link
brianwawok 3941 days ago
Hah then shame on him ;)
link