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🤔 Ever been in a job interview where you could just tell the interviewer wasn’t feeling it? 🙅♂️ Here are some telltale signs the interviewer probably doesn’t want to hire you:
– Lack of eye contact 👀
– Minimal engagement or enthusiasm during the conversation 😶
– Rushing through the interview questions 🏃♂️
– Not asking about your availability or next steps 📆
If you find yourself in this situation, don’t worry! Here’s a possible solution:
– Stay positive and engaged throughout the interview 💪
– Ask thoughtful questions about the company and role 🤔
– Follow up with a thank you email expressing your continued interest in the position 📧
Remember, even if this interview doesn’t work out, it’s all valuable experience for the next one! Keep pushing forward and stay confident 💼✨ #YouGotThis
It’s impossible to tell what are the positive signs or negative signs in an interview. I had an interview where I was late and one of the interviewers was very disengaged during my interview but I received an offer. I had another interview where after my interview had ended the hiring manager gave me a tour of the office and pointed at a desk and said “This is where you’ll sit” then shortly after received a rejection email. At the end of the day it’s luck. They could be having a good or bad day, they could have someone else in mind, or you could be that unicorn they’re looking for.
“We’re interviewing other people. If we make a decision, we’ll let you know”
“ok well, we are still currently interviewing other candidates, so…”
LOL you should try those crazy FBI panel interviews.
They touch their nose while you are talking, this is usually a sign they don’t agree with you.
I have also see interviewers speaker to each other as if I wasn’t in the room.
The interview is abnormally short.
If it’s over webcam, you have your camera on, and they don’t.
It’s one of those one-way interviews. So there isn’t even an “interviewer,” it’s just you taking a glorified assessment while they record you.
‘if you do not like long drives we are not a match’
The interviewer will use those questions that many people hate to hear:
What is your greatest weakness?
Why do you want to work here?
Where do you see yourself in five years?
How would you handle a situation where you disagree with your team lead / supervisor / manager / department head?
You have a gap in your work history. Could you explain in more detail about the gap?
Two big ones that often set off red flags for me:
The interviewer doesn’t acknowledge you in an out going or friendly way before, during or after the interview–they act as if you’re wasting their time.
They pick apart you education, knowledge, and experience in demeaning and condescending ways.
1. If they mention anything you say is a “red flag” or they give you negative pushback on anything you say
2. If they say they are not in a rush to hire for the position.
3. If they mention they are looking for something that you don’t have
The only time I know I’ve sealed the deal is when they start touring me of the facility.
They keep looking at the clock over and over
I’ve checked my profile on the company job portal to make sure that everything was in order before the interview only to find that the position had been filled before I’d even interviewed.
when they start making faces at some of the things you say
It’s usually “are you a minority clearly being interviewed to tick a quota box?”
I’ve had a frustrating number of interviews in my life where the employer clearly interviewed me just to tick a box.
If the scheduled time was an hour and they end it after 15 minutes.
If they don’t try to sell the company/org to you.
An abnormal number of interviews. I got ghosted by what I am sure is a ghost job a year ago. They made me do 4 interviews and an assessment for a customer service job, and each interview was an hour.
From what I’ve noticed:
– They don’t give you the opportunity to ask them questions.
– They look distracted.
– They laugh when you leave.
– The interview feels more of an interrogation than a conversation.
– They don’t ask about salary expectations.
– They don’t end the interview on the next steps/when you’ll hear back.
– Gut feeling.
– They ask illegal questions not related to the role.
It’s usually hard to tell cause you get boomers and young people who have different interview methods. Bias and prejudice is prevalent. They’ll say anything to cover their ass only for preventing lawsuits.
If you ever get rejected or experience an interviewer that treats you like crap in the process. Don’t ever feel bad or take it personal if you got rejected by them. You dodged a bullet in not wanting to work with a bad employee who most likely treats their employees like crap too. I rather have a standard salary in a good work environment than work in toxic environments with crap/high pay 💯.
You can tell if someone else has the role.
E.g. once interviewed with C. C had left his last job after a guilty finding of corrupt conduct. C’s team were hiring friends. C appealed then left so the investigation was closed.
Sitting in the interview when he was clearly disinterested, I wanted to ask how he felt being found guilty of corrupt conduct previously…
the interviewer dont wanna know if you have any question
“We will get back with you by the end of the week”
*No email*
*No voicemail*
1. We are still interviewing candidates
2. They don’t explain the next steps
3. They ghost you after the interview. (This has happened countless times over my career)
4. They don’t go into great detail about the company cut the interview short.
This could go either way, but I’ve noticed that it’s a bad sign when the interviewer starts turning the interview into more of a casual conversation. For example, I was interviewing for a retail position, and the owner, a former artist, was asking me a lot of art-related questions (unrelated to the actual role). Things like “what type of mediums do you use,” and “what type of art do you like to make.” He then stopped after 10 minutes of conversation to tell me that he doesn’t think I’m a good fit for the role.
I’ve had the opposite happen, too. I’ve had an interviewer ask me questions like “what have you been up to lately” and “what was going to X college like?” Afterwards, I was sent an offer letter.
So in short, it either means they really like you, or they don’t GAF about asking genuine interview questions because they already made up their mind that they’re not going with you. I’ve had the latter happen to me more times than the former, so I’m going with the assessment that it’s more likely a bad sign.
When you’re scheduled to meet 2 people and the more senior one doesn’t show up. (Happened to me not once but twice!)
PSA for hiring managers: If you don’t want to hire someone so much that you don’t even want to meet them, please don’t make them take time off from their existing job and get dressed up etc just to waste time speaking to your subordinate.
I’ve been doing technical interviewing in the last few companies I’ve worked with – must have done north of 100 interviews over the last ~10 years. With the caveat that I’m focused primarily on their skillset and technical application in software/platform engineering, signs that are good and bad would be:
Good:
* The interviewer starts talking about specific positions that you could work in… this means you’ve already convinced them that you’re a good option and the question is now where you’d be deployed to
* Discussions go off into technical problems you’ve both dealt with. Not only does this mean the interviewer thinks of you as a fellow engineer, they’re thinking they could get on with you.
* At the end of the interview, they talk about filing the paperwork and getting comms to you ASAP. This tends to indicate that they’re thinking about the mechanics of getting you onboard, the question of whether to hire you is a foregone conclusion.
Bad:
* Everything is vague. Vague role, tech stack, no small talk. Interviewer is going through the motions and out of courtesy, doesn’t see any path forward with you.
* Interview ends early or abruptly. If an interviewer is interested in someone, they will normally use the whole slot. If they’re not, then its wasting time if there’s nothing to say.
* Interviewer starts picking holes in your CV. This normally means they’ve either spotted something missing that they can’t do without in the role, or they’re questioning the authenticity of it.