Today I interviewed a candidate.
The position he interviewed was an outsourcing position, so the resume used the unified template of the outsourcing company.
I have used this template to read many resumes.
So I habitually looked at the technology stack first, and then glanced at the academic qualifications.
Suddenly was caught eyeballs.
It is written on his resume that he graduated from a university in computer science and technology in 2015.
And the computer science major of this certain university ranks TOP 10 in China.
It is one of the following schools:
An undergraduate graduate with nearly 6 years of experience and an ace major from a double top university came to interview for an outsourcing position.
This background is enough to attract my attention.
But after the interview, the overall performance was very average.
Answering questions Many technical questions are on the surface, and even the technical points written on the resume cannot be answered.
Moreover, when answering the question, I observed his look. The whole state was dissociated, giving people a feeling of not being confident.
I won't talk about technical issues.
Finally, I asked about his experience. What I am curious about is such a good academic background, why have you been working in an outsourcing company for so long?
He replied:
When I was in my senior year, I wholeheartedly prepared for the postgraduate entrance examination, but failed in the end. I also missed school recruitment opportunities because of postgraduate entrance examinations.
After graduating, I had to resort to social recruitment and chose to go northward. As a result, I ran into an outsourcing company by mistake. It took me two and a half years to work.
After I had three years of experience, I realized that staying in an outsourcing company was not good, so I chose to leave Beijing and come to Chengdu.
Due to my own outsourcing experience, after I came to Chengdu, I searched for a job for nearly 3 months, but did not find a suitable position.
The result was an outsourcing company.
This work has been going around in various outsourcing projects, and three years have passed in a flash.
The reason for the job hopping this time is because I realized that my technology is still much worse, and it is difficult to improve in this environment.
I asked him: Do you know that the position you are currently interviewing is also an outsourcing?
He said: I know, but at least I think that when you come to your company as an outsourcing company, with such a large transaction volume, you can always learn something. I want to improve my technical level now.
My last question is: Is there anything else you want to ask me?
He replied that if I had the opportunity to join the company, I would be able to learn a lot.
Learn things, learn technology.
These are the few words he mentioned the most in the few minutes he communicated with me.
When talking about this, I felt his longing.
But through the previous technical interviews, I can also feel that he did not spend a lot of time on technological progress in recent years.
Aside from the technical interview, he was very sincere afterwards.
It reminds me of an interviewer I met in Beijing before.
The interviewer worked as a soldier for a few years, then retired and entered the computer industry.
The technology is very general, but also very sincere.
As a side of me, I gave it to him.
When I went to report to the leader, I said: I can't make up my mind. Why don't you go take a look.
After the leader's interview was completed, he told me: I think he is very average, how do you think he is good?
I said: I think he is very sincere.
The leaders laughed when they heard: the technology is not good enough, and sincerity is useless, I think you are softened. Don't worry about the interview.
After interviewing this buddy, I sighed and felt sorry for him.
Another interviewer
Today’s interviewer reminds me of a senior who has been working for 9 years in Beijing.
At that time, I had only worked for 3 years.
When I first got my resume, I touched it: This resume is so thick!
So I went to my leader, and I said: I should not be able to interview this person. I have only 3 years of work experience. This buddy is three times that of mine. What's up?
The leader said: It's okay, you go to talk first, what you are afraid of, treat it as a technical exchange, don't treat it as an interview.
During the interview, he didn't answer the technical questions we talked about very well. His skills are like a big tablet. At first glance, he knows a little about everything, but after a little in-depth discussion, his eyes will be smeared.
At the end of the interview, I told him directly:
In the whole interview process, some of your questions were not very good. Maybe our interview is here today, but I want to ask you one more question. You don’t need to answer it.
You have been working for 9 years, and you should have many friends in the industry. Why is there no referral? And your technical ability and your working years are a bit mismatched.
He answered me, roughly, like this:
When I first started working, the computer industry was not so popular. Most of them were traditional companies, so I have always been in the traditional industry, a relatively introverted person, and I didn't deliberately accumulate contacts.
During the period, I changed a few companies, none of which is an Internet technology company in the true sense, and I have always been doing development work.
The last company fired me. Before I was fired, I was still a low-level old employee.
But I tried hard to develop into a management post, but in the end it was unsatisfactory.
In recent years, I have always wanted to develop in the direction of management and focus more on business. There are more and more family matters, which sometimes affect work.
The technology is a bit stagnant. Eventually lead to such a situation.
After listening, I said:
You are my predecessor and I respect you very much, but from the perspective of my three years in the industry and your interview performance just now, what you said is part of the reason, and not the main reason.
I think the main reason is that you have lost your pursuit of technology.
In the past few years, all you have to do is to study a little bit in-depth, think about, and sort out the problems that you encounter each time, and then find a skill to dig deeper. Over time, the results today should be very different. same.
I understand that you may have lost your way under the pressure of family and work.
Later, I sent him to the door of the company. He had already walked out, and turned around and shook my hand. He shook his hand very hard and said:
Thank you!
What I wrote in the interview result description column is:
The professional skills of this person do not match the working years. It is not recommended to enter the next round of interviews.
After the interview, I fed back the results of the interview to my leader. When the leader saw the comment I wrote, he smiled meaningfully and said to me: As I expected, I am old and have a long working experience, but the skills are average.
After that, the scene of him shaking my hand hard sometimes appeared in my mind involuntarily.
It seems to spur me: Lessons from the past, be vigilant.
At last
Let me end with a passage from "Life":
Although the road of life is long, there are often only a few steps to the important points, especially when people are young. No one's life path is straight and without forks. There are some forks, such as political forks, career forks, and personal life forks. If you take a wrong step, you can affect a period of your life or your entire life.
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