Marathon Interview

I've got another interview today so I spend the best part of the morning brushing up on stuff and then stressing terribly over it to the point where I was going to make up an excuse and blow them off because I just didn't want to go. I think the main reason for it is because despite them thinking I'm qualified enough for the job I'm not so sure that I am - they require someone that has worked within a well defined project methodology and to be honest everywhere I've worked has been so fast paced there has been little time for such luxuries.

I summon up enough guts to go in the end but the interview lasted for 3 hours! That's a long time to be grilled by anyone, especially when you're trying to sound as if you know what your doing and impress people without coming across as big headed or impolite. They asked me so many questions I can't recall any of them now, and ended the torture by giving me a technical test which involved me coding up a pseudo website, which would have been fine except they made me do it in Microsoft word and on top of that I couldn't view the page in a browser window because apparently as a guest logged into the system I didn't have the right privileges! Handy eh!

I've not really got any inkling as to how the whole debacle went so we will just have to see - from what the lady was saying it will be a while before I hear anything back so I'll just forget about it for the time being until I get some feedback.

I don't get home till 6.30 or thereabouts and after my day I don't feel like cooking so we have a treat and get fish and chips for dinner, which whilst very nice was a huge portion of which I probably only managed to make a dent in about 1/6th of it. And on top of all that I've got a nasty feeling I'm coming down with something as my throat is itchy and sore, so much so I've had to resort in scoffing anaesthetic pastels to try and ease the pain.

Posted by Abi on the August 21, 2006 9:03 PM

sjon at August 31, 2006 1:12 PM