One down...
Feb. 18th, 2003 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danaerisExcuse me while my brain explodes.
...
OK.
Ran into![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
feyandstrange on my way to the Wired interview, which was probably good for my sanity. Phew. Enjoyed conversation with her and didn't obssess about the upcoming interview. w00t.
Got there early and sat in the waiting room.
Good signs:
-the interview took longer than they said it would
-he seemed to like a LOT of my answers
-they are very familiar with Tech Review and like the idea of MIT alums in general; they use lots of stuff from the media lab
-AFTER the interview, he showed me around and pointed a few people out to me and introduced me to the current research intern and one of the editors I'd be working with
-the editor I was introduced to chatted with me for a little while, seemed to like me, and informed me that they were secretly hiring for lots of internships and not just the Products internship. So I got to tell them that I would be interested in research and editorial internships as well.
-When she put me in context and remembered who I was, she said, "Oh, right, we were just talking about you. Good things," and smiled.
Bad signs:
-he asked me some questions to which I stupidly answered honestly. On the one hand, that may make it clear to him that I was honest on the ones he liked. On the other hand, he asked if I'd been freelancing while I was unemployed. It looks real bad that I haven't. Damn my poor research skills. He also asked me if I read Wired, and then later I stated that Wired was the kind of place I'd like to be employed ultimately. These combined say, "Yeah, even though this is where I want to work, I'm too lame to read you regularly" if he puts them together. So some of my answers COULD look really bad.
-when showing me around after the interview, he mostly pointed people out to me rather than introducing me. But that may have been because they were busy. After the conversation with the editor lady, he took me to the exit right away. I detected some anxiety there, but I wasn't sure... I felt like maybe he decided, "why am I bothering taking her around, we don't want her/don't want her monopolizing more editors' time with chatting the way she does." But maybe she was just the last person he wanted me to meet/see. It's hard to tell.
I think I was the last interviewee. They said they'd get back to me Thursday at the latest, possibly Wednesday. Meep.
I felt fine and comfortable during the interview. It was after that I had to work not to freak out. SCARY! What if mistakes I made, saying I hadn't read Wired much or that I hadn't freelanced much, etc., or whatever, mean that they won't hire me? And what if they don't hire me and that means that EVER getting hired there will be hard because they'll remember my lame-o answers?!
Those are silly fears, I know, and I will try to remain calm. I think the best thing I can do to get through this is keep Real Busy for the next 2.5 days.
So. One down, one more to go. I have an interview this afternoon. So I have to clean dishes, make lunch, eat, go to interview, see if I can find a copy of the magazine/paper at the caltrain station before I go into the interview, interview, get home, do something to relax, go spend time with boy. Tomorrow, I get to spend time withurbanbard which will be fun and keep me distracted hopefully. ooo, what if they call my home phone? nah, they know to call my cellphone. And if I don't find out they rejected me until late that night, that's ok.
meepmeepmeep!
...
OK.
Ran into
feyandstrange on my way to the Wired interview, which was probably good for my sanity. Phew. Enjoyed conversation with her and didn't obssess about the upcoming interview. w00t.Got there early and sat in the waiting room.
Good signs:
-the interview took longer than they said it would
-he seemed to like a LOT of my answers
-they are very familiar with Tech Review and like the idea of MIT alums in general; they use lots of stuff from the media lab
-AFTER the interview, he showed me around and pointed a few people out to me and introduced me to the current research intern and one of the editors I'd be working with
-the editor I was introduced to chatted with me for a little while, seemed to like me, and informed me that they were secretly hiring for lots of internships and not just the Products internship. So I got to tell them that I would be interested in research and editorial internships as well.
-When she put me in context and remembered who I was, she said, "Oh, right, we were just talking about you. Good things," and smiled.
Bad signs:
-he asked me some questions to which I stupidly answered honestly. On the one hand, that may make it clear to him that I was honest on the ones he liked. On the other hand, he asked if I'd been freelancing while I was unemployed. It looks real bad that I haven't. Damn my poor research skills. He also asked me if I read Wired, and then later I stated that Wired was the kind of place I'd like to be employed ultimately. These combined say, "Yeah, even though this is where I want to work, I'm too lame to read you regularly" if he puts them together. So some of my answers COULD look really bad.
-when showing me around after the interview, he mostly pointed people out to me rather than introducing me. But that may have been because they were busy. After the conversation with the editor lady, he took me to the exit right away. I detected some anxiety there, but I wasn't sure... I felt like maybe he decided, "why am I bothering taking her around, we don't want her/don't want her monopolizing more editors' time with chatting the way she does." But maybe she was just the last person he wanted me to meet/see. It's hard to tell.
I think I was the last interviewee. They said they'd get back to me Thursday at the latest, possibly Wednesday. Meep.
I felt fine and comfortable during the interview. It was after that I had to work not to freak out. SCARY! What if mistakes I made, saying I hadn't read Wired much or that I hadn't freelanced much, etc., or whatever, mean that they won't hire me? And what if they don't hire me and that means that EVER getting hired there will be hard because they'll remember my lame-o answers?!
Those are silly fears, I know, and I will try to remain calm. I think the best thing I can do to get through this is keep Real Busy for the next 2.5 days.
So. One down, one more to go. I have an interview this afternoon. So I have to clean dishes, make lunch, eat, go to interview, see if I can find a copy of the magazine/paper at the caltrain station before I go into the interview, interview, get home, do something to relax, go spend time with boy. Tomorrow, I get to spend time with
urbanbard which will be fun and keep me distracted hopefully. ooo, what if they call my home phone? nah, they know to call my cellphone. And if I don't find out they rejected me until late that night, that's ok.meepmeepmeep!
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Date: 2003-02-18 11:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-18 11:53 am (UTC)and remember, the other people being interviewed also get flustered, and stumble, and say things that come out wrong.
Being last is good, it makes you a bit more memorable.
I'm very impressed by the line "Oh, right, we were just talking about you. Good things,"
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Date: 2003-02-18 06:54 pm (UTC)We're interviewing lots of people over here, there's been a steady stream of them in the past three weeks. I haven't been interviewing any 'cause they're all for developer openings, not sysadmins, but last week we had an interviewing workshop with our HR director, so I got to hear a lot of the people who are running interviews talk about it.
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Date: 2003-02-18 08:22 pm (UTC)