| If you can pull it off it might have some value to people just getting into the job market, but I suspect watching someone else get interviewed for a different role at a different company would have much less value than just prepping for your own interview in a more traditional way. As an example, when I go into an interview I generally try to get a sense for what the company does and what I am likely to be doing day to day. This allows me to tailor responses in a way that explains how I can be of use to the company, and allows me to prep for questions I might be asked about the technical requirements of the role. Watching a some random dude interview for another job, in another industry, with different requirements just wouldn't be very helpful to me, and it may actually be a determent if I believe everything that worked in his interview will work in mine. If it was an interview for the same company, for the same role, and I knew the guy got hired then it would probably be somewhat useful, but otherwise interviews are just too different to really have any transferable learnings. The other thing I'd say on this is that interviews in my experience are largely about personality. I work as a contractor so I generally do interviews once or twice a year and I know an interview has gone well not because I've managed to answer all the technical questions, but if I simply connect with the interviewer. In fact I've had interviewers cut the technical questions short on me a few times simply because they liked how I presented and had a good feel about me. And I've seen this on the other side of the fence too... I know people who have not gotten roles or have even lost their jobs because those making decisions just didn't like them on a personal level. This personality aspect of interviews is extremely hard to optimise for because you don't know what people are looking for. Going into interviews I try to guess based on what I know about the company and who is interviewing me (age, techy, position at company) what type of person they might be looking for. A non-techy at financial company for example might expect you to dress professionally and speak proper, where as a techy at a startup might actually be more inclined to hire you if you're wearing a hoodie and act slightly more casual. But this needs to be done in a way that's congruent with your baseline personality because people can sense when you're putting on an act. The point I'm trying to make is that it would be a mistake to extrapolate about what works for a different people in different interviews. Just my thoughts anyway. I think a website about interview hacking with some video clips as demonstrations would be a better idea personally. I'd probably even take a look at that myself. |