Hi everyone,
I've botched a few interviews with Operations Managers (IE: Hiring Managers), and even CEOs of companies recently, and I'm a bit puzzled as to what I am doing wrong.
Recently I botched one with one of the biggest, most desired open source bootstrapped companies (non-bitcoin related) -- Ghost.io. The manager did tell me that out of hundreds of applications they received over the weekend, they only call less than a dozen, which she mentioned that this itself is already an incredible feat.
Another example is how I botched an interview with ZBD's CTO André Neves. He seemed tired of doing so many interviews and mine didn't seem to stand out at all -- I just kept thinking poor guy! I should have left him take 5 or 10 minutes off my interview so he could take a break in-between calls. I know how it feels to have hours of meetings per day, it's extremely exhausting.
For some reason I can kind of tell that they seem to lose interest in my story. It might just be that others have more compelling stories, are willing to sell themselves in a pushy way, or simply that I am in fact applying for a few of the greatest companies in the world and the bar is set extremely high.
That's not to say that I have failed all HR interviews and usually if I do get to the coding challenge I do well, but if I were to find a job in the fiat mine I would rather be one I feel very challenged.
I'll give a 50,000 sats bounty between the best answers I can find and maybe a bit extra if there are lots of good answers. I'll tip directly here in SN comments
I'd love to know if anyone has expertise from taking a lot of interviews or if you are the hiring person itself, that'd be even better. If you don't have expertise but just made some research, it's fine but I'd be grateful if you point it out (IE: "checked this blog post from Basecamp, and the CEO said this and that")
For context, I feel that sometimes in the half an hour of time I have, I spend about 15-20 minutes talking about my previous and past projects (I have a lot of projects and experience in Frontend and as a Manager under my wing). My goal is open source companies, but I most of my experience is on closed source.
Maybe I should talk about them less so that we can chat more? Maybe I interrupt too much in interviews? Maybe they're looking for me to ask a lot of questions? (I don't tend to ask much, as I read their company profiles well).
My English is not native but decent enough, and I also taught big groups of 30-50 people so I'm usually okay talking and expressing myself.
Thanks!