Preface
This article mainly talks about a worry that many students have during the interview: If I interview several companies in a row, does it mean that other companies will not get an offer?
First of all, the answer is definitelynegativeof. The author of this article will introduce it from a real case to tell you the reasons and give these students who were frustrated in the interview some positive energy.
1. After failing the TMD interview, you will get the senior expert Offer of BAT
First, I will introduce a case to you. The protagonist of this case is a good friend of mine for many years and has about ten years of experience.
This friend has worked as a technical expert in one of BAT and also leads a technical team in a front-line Internet company. He is a senior expert.
He himself has rich technical breadth, technical depth, architectural experience, and management experience, and has strong abilities. The academic background is also good, and it is a master's degree from a prestigious university.
As a result, when he changed jobs, he was persuaded by the headhunter to go to an interview with a company in TMD, saying that he had to lead a team in the past.
As a result, during the interview process, he obviously felt a strange atmosphere. The following is the interview process he recalled:
Two interviewers sat together and looked at him: You firstSelf-introductionone time
friend: I am a senior technical expert at XXX Company, and I have led the XX team and have been responsible for XX projects
Interviewer: Tell me how do you set the XX parameters of XX technology in your work?
friend:ah? What did you say? How to set parameters? Now I am mainly responsible for the design of the architecture and the management of the team.
Interviewer: Then tell me, in the XX scenario, how do you modify the parameters of XX technology to optimize it?
friend: Why do you always keep staring at a few parameters and ask? I would like to tell you about several projects of our team and our architecture design, including some of oursPractical experience。
Interviewer: Don’t talk about those virtual ones, we just want to talk about how to set and optimize parameters.
friend: Otherwise, I will be here for the interview today. I have something to do at home, so I will leave first, bye.
First declare that the above is oneAbsolutely trueDon't think it's funny in the interview process.
In fact, there is obviously a problem of information misalignment here. It is not that the interviewer has problems, nor is it that my friend has problems, but that there is definitely a problem with the coordination of the headhunter in the middle.
Because it is obvious that what the other party is looking for should be a technical expert who has been deeply engaged in a certain technology for many years and is specialized in that area, so after focusing on a certain technology, I want to start from the tuning of parameters.
But my friend’s abilities are not about deepening a certain technology, but about the overallTechnical ArchitectureHe is very strong, and mainly comes to lead the team positions.
Therefore, there were obvious problems here, which made my friend unable to continue answering other people's questions. As an interviewer who had been recruiting for many years, he felt that the position he was recruiting was not matched at all.
So, this is the headhunter introduced by the middle bridge. There was a problem with the needs of a position and the candidate's ability and experience. This was an extremely failed interview and wasted both parties' time.
Later, after someone else's internal recommendation, my friend went to an interview with a company he had never stayed in BAT. On the one hand, the other party sent P8 for the interview, and the next two rounds of interviews were P9 and P10 for the inspection.
Because the other party's position needs are very consistent with his friends, including his own excellent conditions, he was recruited directly as a senior expert and led a team.
2. Interview failure caused by misalignment of needs and abilities
Through this real example, I want to tell you the truth about the first interview:If you fail to interview a company, it doesn't necessarily mean that you are not capable of your own.。
If you find that the angle, direction and technical field of your problem are not very matched with you personally, then don’t hesitate. In fact, you just ran to the wrong place and just go straight.
Next, you should continue to find a team that matches your job recruitment needs.
For example, in some companies, the person they want to find is very special, maybe they hope someone is inElasticsearchThere is particularly in-depth experience in this technical field. The system they want to build is mainly built based on ES, so they will look for this type of person specifically.
But maybe you happened to be rightKafkaThe research is very in-depth. Isn’t it a misplaced place when you have gone through this?
Or some companies just want to find the right oneDubboPeople with certain experience come in and can start using it directly in the company. As a result, you are proficient in the Spring Cloud technology stack, which Dubbo has never used.
Then in the past, people were not interested in your Spring Cloud technology at all. Although you can get started quickly if you want to learn Dubbo, they just want to work quickly when they come. Then aren’t you misplaced?
There are also companies that he wants to recruitData structureIf you are a young man with a very solid algorithm, you are a poor student in college. You have forgotten about these basics, but your other skills are very strong, and you will be misplaced in the past. People may think you are bad, but in fact you are not bad.
So, I have seen many students who come to me for interview questions, and a considerable proportion of them. If you can't get an offer, the interviewer is cold to you, but in fact, the interview is misplaced, and their expectations do not match your skills.
At this time, you don’t have to worry at all. Just keep looking for other companies. As long as you have the skills you are good at, there will definitely be someone who is very enthusiastic about you.
3. After failing interviews with more than 10 small companies, they get the offer from a first-tier Internet manufacturer.
The second example is a little brother who has been talking to me. He is very young and often asks me for questions.
His technical foundation is pretty good, and he actually knows all kinds of skills. Once he went out to find a job, he started by interviewing various small companies, but he ended up having one interview.
After interviewing more than ten companies in a row, none of them issued offers, because there are always one or another technical questions in each interview, and I didn’t answer them well.
Then the classmate was very frustrated. I told him, don’t be discouraged. Many places you have technical shortcomings, so every interview has poor answers. You have to collect all the bad answers and then quickly learn. You will definitely ask the same questions in the next interview, and you can answer them very well.
After listening to this, this student summarized all the questions he answered in the interview, then studied and consolidated them in a targeted manner, and finally boldly submitted them to some large companies.
This includes a first-tier Internet manufacturer with a market value of 10 billion US dollars. As a result, he finally joined the company. He answered all the questions asked by others and gave an offer.
4. Treat every interview as an opportunity to learn
So, I want to tell you another truth. If you interview many companies and find that there is no offer, the reason is actually very simple. You may have knowledge loopholes in many places.
At this time, you should regard every interview as learning, rather than having a strong utilitarian mind, just getting an offer.
You should look at where you answer badly with a learning attitude, and learn and consolidate yourself as soon as possible.
As this process continues to advance, you will find that your technical system is constantly improving and all kinds of shortcomings are gone. Finally, you will interview some large companies with confidence, and you will still have the opportunity to get an offer.