Ask HN: What was your favourite interview?

1 pointmartythemaniak1 comment

We hear tons of horror stories about bad interviews in our industry, but I'd be interested to hear whether there were any interviews people actually liked and still felt that it fairly tested their aptitude, regardless of whether it resulted in an offer or not.

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I asked for an early interview in 1998 as I had a month's consultancy lined up overseas. The interview went very well, there seemed to be some strange interaction between two of the interviewers. One kept asking me about my weaknesses and the other backing me up on my answers. It turned out later the senior intervieweress only hired women, the person I was going to work for wanted my deep industry experience and an outsider. He won out.

I made certain the interviweress never regretted hiring me.

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