I recently interviewed at a startup where I faced a very bully interviewer. First a bit of background about me ..I have few years of gaps in my career due to family responsibilities. But whenever I have rejoined work, i have always enjoyed the work and loved working in development role with active coding.
The start of interview felt like he had made up his mind, being lady, with so many years of gap in between, may be she is no good for coding role.
I was asked a question for which some particular answer was expected, which is commonly used for that domain, but since I had never worked in that domain, the answer didn't click instantaneously..
And the very next question he asked me in next 2 mins time was "you don't know the answer because you haven't been coding ? "
I politely conveyed that just because i dont know the answer to this question, doesnt mean i do not code. Its simply means that i have not worked on this particular problem and probably next time they should screen people with those particular skillsets. And i didnt continue the interview.
It felt good. I didn't want them to bully me just because I am a candidate (and not employer) and tht too the one with not extremely impressive profile. Even if I had cleared the interview, I don't think I would have accepted to work with that company.
The start of interview felt like he had made up his mind, being lady, with so many years of gap in between, may be she is no good for coding role. I was asked a question for which some particular answer was expected, which is commonly used for that domain, but since I had never worked in that domain, the answer didn't click instantaneously..
And the very next question he asked me in next 2 mins time was "you don't know the answer because you haven't been coding ? "
I politely conveyed that just because i dont know the answer to this question, doesnt mean i do not code. Its simply means that i have not worked on this particular problem and probably next time they should screen people with those particular skillsets. And i didnt continue the interview.
It felt good. I didn't want them to bully me just because I am a candidate (and not employer) and tht too the one with not extremely impressive profile. Even if I had cleared the interview, I don't think I would have accepted to work with that company.