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Showing Original Post only (View all)Difficulty with job interviews. [View all]
I'm trying to find a new software development position but I'm finding that I'm losing out because of difficulties interviewing. I find it difficult to answer certain kinds of questions. I think I need to make a list of questions along with some canned answers.
I'll give an example. I had an interview today and heard back back from the recruiter that the company did not want to pursue anything with me any further because I seemed to have difficulty with certain questions. I knew this was a problem during the interview.
The question was something like "tell me about a task you had to accomplish that had a lot of details and how you handled those details".
I started to describe a somewhat complicated task that I accomplished at my last job then, while explaining the task, I realized that I have no idea how I handled the details. I'm not even sure what the question means.
I know that I don't seem to think like most people. I get things done, but I can't always explain how. Details are just something I handle as they come along, but I'm not really able to explain the process I go through. I know that I've often been told that I do a good or even superior job. Certainly that should be sufficient for any employer, but how can I convince a potential employer of that when they have a mindset that a person needs to be able to explain how they handle details?
Bullshit questions like this are unfair and eliminate potentially good or even superior employees simply because they don't fit into a mold.
I think I need some kind of canned answer, even if it's not an entirely true one, just to get past this roadblock. What's are some good answers to this kind of question?
