Just recently, I have gone through a couple of interviews. Setting up myself for graduation, through this process I got to see the different ways companies approach recruits and the ways they interview their recruits. I was very impressed with all the companies I talked to. However, two stood out to me. These two companies asked to meet with me in Portland and took me on job walks, showing me their projects and their day-to-day responsibilities within these projects. Immediately I was impressed by their openness to have me and others out on the job site and getting a better understanding of the way their company works. In one of these interviews, it was broken out in a round robin way. Where we were interviewing 6 different people from the company varying in jobs and time spent with the company, which I thought was a extremely effective way to interview. One of the interviewers did not come prepared with any questions for me and simply asked me to tell him about myself. Which seemed nice at first but was somewhat frustrating for me when I was prepared for some difficult questions about the job. The rest of the interviewers were well prepared and asked me the questions I was anticipating, and overall, the experience was good. It just continues to stand out to me as a sort of fluke of an interview. The only recommendation I have for that company would have the interviewers to be ready and prepared with some questions as well as maybe less interviewers as it was a solid 2 hours of interviews.
