After working for 18 months with current organisation and almost taken 10’s of interviews, I was feeling like a technology stud. There were thoughts that any organisation will be grateful to have me.
With such thought, when I had the chance to attend an exploratory round with a decent enough tech company, I was already in the thoughts that I was selected and I just had to join them. It was so funny that I was calculating the money which I will ask them while sleeping.
Nonetheless, when I completed the exploratory round and received the reject email, it almost shattered my arrogance. For sometime, I couldn’t believe that I was rejected. It may have been possible that they didn’t move forward because of high salary I am in but I don’t want to believe that. I do feel that I was a bit arrogant in the interview. May be it was my over confidence, so I will create a list of learning from this whole exercise so that it remains in my thoughts always. No arrogance any more please.
- Be Humble. Always. (Of late I am feeling arrogant. I need to fix it urgently)
- Speak slow and carefully.
- Never talk bad about your past.
- Prepare these questions carefully:
- How does your team perceive you?
- How did you take a negative feedback?
- How did you align your products?
- Why do you want to change?
I am grateful to the God that I had a chance to get rejected and receive this learning when I was not in the need of a job change. I just can’t imagine how I would have felt if I needed the job and I was rejected in the exploratory round itself without being evaluated on my core skills.
I will make sure that this learning remains in my thoughts .
Wisdom Talks 