r/InterviewsHell

I was let go from my job at one of the major tech companies in March of this year. I have 15 years of experience and have been targeting “Head of”/ Senior roles as I have been leading at that level in the past 2-3 companies so far. I’ve been steadily getting interviews 50% of which I’m not even getting past recruiter screens. The other ones which I’m progressing have like 5-6 rounds of interviews. Some I’ve reached the mid level steps vs some final but none of them have panned out. I’m getting mentally exhausted. It’s causing me anxiety and have started heavyily doubting my self worth and my capabilities. I’m even thinking of taking junior positions but that would definitely mean career s****de I feel.

More importantly I’m just mentally and physically drained. Why are companies asking to interview for ef fin 6 rounds these days. Anyone else in a similar boat as mine? Is the job market that bad? ( the employment numbers don’t seem that terrible) or do I need to really upskill?

Hi all,

I've been interviewing for this company for last 2 months now! Super slow and patience testing process... Completed 3 processes, including Screening + Manager Interview+ Panel interview with 3 team members. Now I'm waiting for either offer or rejection and after a week, recruiter reached out to say:

'' Hi , We're currently working through some internal conversations on the role and where things stand, and I'd rather give you a proper update on a zoom call than over email''

Things we know:
1- I'm very good fit for the role, within the salary range with short notice, and did 3 solid interviews
2- This doesn't look like a rejection as I would've received the automated rejection mail
3- This is not a offer either, as recruiter would've called me to offer the role...

So not sure what to think about it? Recruiter only reached out to me on 5pm Friday evening so I have to wait on Monday to find out... Which will be a lot of over thinking and torturous weekend, after this verry long and tiring process. I can't understand anything going on corporate behind the scenes anymore and nothing makes sense. I'm guessing this will be like 'Hey, you are a good candidate but we decided to pull back the role as organizational needs changed, we will post the job in another location... or we decided to go with someone more technical...?' Not sure what to think but this doesn't sounds good so I'm setting my expectations low.

What do you think? Has anyone ever received something similar to this? Finally, good luck to everyone in this horrible job market!!!

One piece of information on his check didn't line up. The kind of thing that in a lot of places gets you an automatic rejection, no conversation, just a flag and you're out. I called him instead. He explained that he'd misremembered a date when filling out the form, got a month wrong basically. Said it wasn't intentional and honestly the way he explained it, it didn't sound like it was. So I actually went and checked what he told me. It held up. The dates made sense once you had the full picture, it was a genuine mistake and not someone trying to hide something. I went to the person handling the background check and told them where I landed. This isn't fabrication, it's a typo, and treating it as fraud would be wrong.

It didn't end up affecting his offer. I know plenty of people would've just processed it by the book. Flag, fail, move on. And I get why, it's cleaner and nobody wants to be the one who vouched for someone. But rules get written by people, and following them still leaves room to actually think about what's in front of you.

A five minute call was the difference between him getting the job and getting quietly binned over a wrong date.

Hypothetical question.

Let's say you were fired from a job, but your previous employer only confirms dates of employment during reference checks. If an interviewer never directly asks why you left, would you bring it up yourself, or would you only answer honestly if they asked? How would you handle it?

Had a interview after the recruiter asked me about myself he immediately got on his phone like that rude af

sometimes the interview is less about whether they want you and more about whether you want them. what was your red flag moment??