Difficulty with job interviews.

[drm604]

32. Another interview today.

It went great with the first two guys, and I think I aced the written Javascript test.

Then this other guy comes in and he wants to know what my goals are. He says something like "I hate questions like where do you see yourself in 5 years, so just tell me what your goals are".

Isn't that basically the same damn question? What can I say, that I just want to earn a good salary so I can sock some of it away for when I retire in 10 years? Of course I can't say that. I tried saying that I wanted to do development work, but that wasn't good enough and this asshole just kept pushing.

He says: "It's all well and good to say that you want to do development work, but what about when you've done the same thing a dozen times and you're tire of it and want to do something else"?

WTF? First off, it's not the same thing, if I'm writing it then it's new, otherwise I wouldn't be writing it, and anyway, if I'm good at it and like it and am paid well for it and all of that makes me happy then why do you care?

But of course I can't say any of that. I have to show ambition. I have to want to take over the company or something.

I'm not a very good liar but I had no choice, so I lied and said that I'd like to be a team leader (in software development you often work in teams, with each having a leader). That wasn't good enough. He had to poke and prod. "What does that mean? What would you like about being a team leader?"

Are these guys just sadists? Don't they know the game? Why keep pushing and pushing and never just accept an answer as it stands? I almost wanted to tell him to go fuck himself and just walk out of the interview, but of course you can't do that.

Goddammit I hate job hunting!