Since when are job interviews held in public places?
I was sitting outside at Starbucks on a Wednesday afternoon and overheard what was unmistakably an interview for a fairly high-level position happening at the next table.
All the standard questions: What do you like about your current job? Dislike? Any further educational plans? How many people do you supervise? What's a typical workweek like?
Because it was some kind of a data job, there was all kinds of jargon that was incomprehensible to me, like "aggressively growing IOS architecture." ("Sounds like something you'd spray bug killer on," commented a waggish friend of mine when I shared the story.)
The interviewee was pretty smooth. What he didn't like about his job, he said, was all the obstacles the company put in his way in terms of hiring people quickly; it made his team less nimble and less competitive. (Good answer!)
And as part of his management philosophy, he won't ask his employees to work extra hours if he's not willing to do so, and he gave an example of some kind of a recent computer system crash when they all worked 80 hours a week.
When the interviewer started asking frankly about salary, I could bear no more and got up and left. There is no privacy anymore.
Oh, and if you recognize yourself in this item? Let me know if you got the job. You aced the interview as far as I'm concerned.
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