How to bomb an Interview 101
I had my plaksha technical interview today and God did it go unplanned. Here's my experience:
It was 11:32 am and I said good afternoon because my personal interview was conducted 2 days before at 12 😭😭💔✌🏻.
She started off with physics asking basic questions about torque. I gave her the F×Rsin theta explanation but idk the interviewer didn't feel satisfied.
I was later asked questions about Doppler effect and Zero'th law of thermodynamics. I didn't know the Zeroth law of thermodynamics ✌🏻. I'm bad at chemistry and I dislike the second half of class 11 physics. I'm from ISC so I didn't know what the Doppler effect was.
I was asked a few more questions and we switched to maths after physics obliteration.
Maths was pretty easy, initially I fumbled at periodicity but I came back with the answer before she corrected me. Everything went well until she asked me (1-cosx)/x^2 limx to 0. IK this sounds like a rant BUT I WAS NOT TAUGHT L'HOSPITAL RULE so i naturally took a long pause and surrendered.
I was asked questions about hyperbola but it was not in my syllabus (I chose statistics).
I was expecting at least a few questions from DSEB but none 😃. My personal interview went absolutely well but the exact opposite happened to me today 💔✌🏻.
Am I overthinking my future or do I have a chance at plaksha?
Stats: 790 SAT Math. 5/5 AP Physics, 4/5 AP Calc. Both math and physics boards are 90+.
I've got decent EC's including national wins, regional sports and research papers.
Help 💔🥀