Worst interview of my career

[PostHeads123]

Had interview Friday technical test over the phone and it has to worst interview of my career everything that could go wrong did. I've wfh for over 18 months now always used my mobile from my home office for conf calls, dials in, webex never had an issue, the call on Friday was a dial in and I got cut off 4 x times within 15min ggrrr. I then reverted to landline - I have the cheapest corded landline phone that is stuck in the corner of lounge next to router, I've never used the landline I had to lookup my number on a bill, to use the actual phone I found I had to sit on the floor as cable not long enough from phone socket. Next the dog appears at the lounge doors to garden wanting to come in and today he decides he wants in NOW and is going mental when he sees me, I tried to ignore him but he was too noisy had to stop the call to let him in. By this time I've lost focus, questions I knew the answers to I just couldnt remeber the answers, so annoyed with myself, it was good job better money and I was good fit. I will never do a telephone interview on a mobile again I picked up a decent cordless landline phone today with speaker.

Edited by PostHeads123 on Saturday 17th July 22:20

Edited by PostHeads123 on Saturday 17th July 22:21

[Austin_Metro]

Hard luck. You never know. I don’t hold technical issues against candidates and you seem to have tried to overcome the problems, showing initiative.

[Bomma R1]

PostHeads123 said:

Had interview Friday telephone technical test over the phone and it has to worst interview of my career everything that could go wrong did. I've wfh for over 18 months now always used my mobile from my home office for conf calls, dials in, webex never had an issue, the call on Friday was a dial in and I got cut off 4 x times within 15min ggrrr. I then reverted to landline - I have the cheapest corded landline phone that is stuck in the corner of lounge next to router Ive never used it I had to lookup my number on a bill, to use the actual phone I found I had to sit on the floor as cable not long enough from phone socket. Next the dog appears at the lounge doors to garden wanting to come in and today he decides he wants in NOW and is going mental when he sees me, I tried to ignore him but he was too noisy had to stop the call to let him in. By this time I've lost focus, questions I knew the answers to I just couldnt remeber than answers, so annoyed with myself, it was good job better money and I was good fit. I will never do a telephone interview on a mobile again I picked up a decent cordless landline phone today with speaker.

Jolly good. That's got them telt then. I think.

[Austin_Metro]

Worth following up with an email to say you are very interested in the company And role and that you are aware the technical difficulties made the interview less straightforward?

[NewNameNeeded]

Definitely contact them. Explain that after working from home effectively, without drama, for 18 months every issue that could have arisen did during the interview and that you didn't present in the best way possible. Ask if there's an opportunity to interview again.

[Sheepshanks]

PostHeads123 said:

....cordless landline phone

Its batteries will run out mid-call.

Daughter recently did interviews for a senior role - first interview was on Teams, which she’d never used so we did a few practice calls. On the day all of the candidates were on together and she was the only one not visible - turned out she’d opened the camera app to check everything looked OK then not closed it.

At the second interview, done in person, she had to do a presentation and was told to put on Google Drive or similar. She couldn’t log in from the machine in the interview, they called the IT guy so it was a right faff and in the end she had to busk it. They were interviewing six people, she was the last.

They called her 15 mins after she’d left and gave her the job. God knows what the others must have been like! So you never know - employers can look past this stuff if they want you.

Edited by Sheepshanks on Sunday 18th July 05:51

[GliderRider]

As is often said, if you're the interviewee and think you're nervous, try being the interviewer!