Interviewed. Owned
I had an interview on Wednesday for a job that I applied for way back at the end of October last year, and well, as the title of this entry suggests, I got owned. The story starts back in October last year when I applied for the job. I didn’t hear anything for about five months, until the end of March, when I got a phone call asking if I was still interested in the position (yes I was), and if I would be available for an interview in May (again, yes I was). A week later I was sent an email with further instructions, including details of the time and location, what I needed to bring, some contact details, as well as details of what would involved: a 45 min interview with both personal and technical questions, a 45 min technical multiple-choice questionnaire, a 45 min reasoning test, and a 30 min personality assessment. Also attached was a 61-page JKI booklet to help me prepare for the technical questionnaire.
Since then, I had been studying the JKI booklet, as well as doing some reading and further research online as to what would be involved in the interview. Then Wednesday came around: d-day. Suited up, I arrived just before the indicated time, and was asked to sit down and wait, which I did. Not long after, I was led to a room and commenced my JKI test. It was nice that it was a multiple-choice test, however, it definitely wasn’t the easiest test in the world, and I would rate it relatively difficult. I am, however, quietly confident of doing okay in that test; not that I know what the cutoff mark is. A quick break, and then it was onto the interview, with a panel of two. One of the interviewers was in charge of the first part, with mostly personal questions, and I think I got through that okay too. And then it was onto the technical questions, from the other interviewer, and that was where I got owned. I got GG’d. Some of the questions were from the JKI booklet, but some went beyond the scope of the JKI booklet, and he basically ran rings around me, and effectively highlighted how much I didn’t actually know; he knew a lot, I knew diddly squat. I got schooled. The interview seemed to go on for quite a bit, but when it was over, I came out mentally exhausted, with a sort of “what the fuck just hit me” type of feeling.
Another short break, onto the reasoning test, break, and then onto the personality test. I think did alright on the reasoning test, of which I’ve done quite a bit lately, and well, you can’t really pass or fail a personality test, can you? But anyway, yeah, I got massacred during the technical questions part of the interview, and as a result, I only give myself a very slim chance of even progressing to the next stage of the job application. So depressing.
Since then, I had been studying the JKI booklet, as well as doing some reading and further research online as to what would be involved in the interview. Then Wednesday came around: d-day. Suited up, I arrived just before the indicated time, and was asked to sit down and wait, which I did. Not long after, I was led to a room and commenced my JKI test. It was nice that it was a multiple-choice test, however, it definitely wasn’t the easiest test in the world, and I would rate it relatively difficult. I am, however, quietly confident of doing okay in that test; not that I know what the cutoff mark is. A quick break, and then it was onto the interview, with a panel of two. One of the interviewers was in charge of the first part, with mostly personal questions, and I think I got through that okay too. And then it was onto the technical questions, from the other interviewer, and that was where I got owned. I got GG’d. Some of the questions were from the JKI booklet, but some went beyond the scope of the JKI booklet, and he basically ran rings around me, and effectively highlighted how much I didn’t actually know; he knew a lot, I knew diddly squat. I got schooled. The interview seemed to go on for quite a bit, but when it was over, I came out mentally exhausted, with a sort of “what the fuck just hit me” type of feeling.
Another short break, onto the reasoning test, break, and then onto the personality test. I think did alright on the reasoning test, of which I’ve done quite a bit lately, and well, you can’t really pass or fail a personality test, can you? But anyway, yeah, I got massacred during the technical questions part of the interview, and as a result, I only give myself a very slim chance of even progressing to the next stage of the job application. So depressing.