My Second Interview!
I just had my interview and it went horribly! We started out with technical questions to test my knowledge and I had no adequate answers for anything he posed. There was one big flaw throughout the entire interview and that was me not paying attention to what I was letting the interviewer know that I knew. The second was that I knew absolutely nothing about switches, which I shall have fun trying to figure out when I get home. I shall try again another time, but this was one job that I'm disappointed I had a horrible interview for. It would have been interesting. I probably could have kept up with the work, but it would have been a lot of initial learning. I didn't present myself in the greatest light, but I don't know if I could have done any better. I think how well my interviews go are going to depend a lot on the interviewer the first few times, which is a shame as I think he was pretty good. I hate not being involved in what is happening in the interview like that. I could never see where he was going with something and we kept switching topics and I kept letting him take me where he wanted to go and there was little set-up for the questions he posed and I turned down an interactive approach to solving the problems and everything was about switches and I learned everything I know about networking through routers not switches. Stupid switches. Overall I know how much someone can know about that kind of stuff and I know perhaps 20% of it which didn't seem like enough to impress anyone in the interview. I did not possess the required l33tness they were looking for. I failed horribly at the interview, but at least I'm not any worse off for it. If I was fit for the position I would have been able to work through his problems even if I lacked any social wisdom about the situation.