Its always a crapshoot whether an interview really goes well or not. I have had about a 50/50 on feeling good or bad afterwards and whether that feeling matched whether I went to the next phase.

Had a 2nd round yesterday and it was a video call. I was expected to dress professionally and have all my AV stuff sorted out. Interviewer gets on and refuses to turn his own camera on. Brief intro of himself, but zero personality, and a thick Indian accent that was difficult to understand. Had to ask a few times to repeat because I had no idea wtf he just said. Dryly goes through his lines of questions to me which were all technical. Response to each of my answers was a simple "ok", and then deadpans each subsequent one. At least gave me time to ask serious questions at the end to force him to actually speak.

He didnt stump me on anything, but I felt zero human connection. He may as well have been an AI bot. Guess we'll see which side of the 50/50 this one falls.

The video interview part reminds me of a pretty bad one. Had a final interview with the general counsel of a large company after several rounds of interviews. Video interview and he is several minutes late. He gets on and turns on his camera, but on my end I can hear him but the video is buffering. He apologizes for being late and asks me how I'm doing. To which I respond, just waiting on you to show up here, meaning on the video. He takes that as me being mad he was late and explains he was at an executive board meeting and could not just walk out for this interview. Didn't get any better from there.

Had one that still pisses me off to this day....it was an internal interview so it's not like I needed the job to pay bills, etc but it was a good promotional position to move towards. Since it was internal, I got a lot of feedback on the interview after being rejected.

The biggest complaint?

I talked about myself too much.

Can anyone tell me who tf I'm supposed to talk about during my job interview?

Posted this years ago but still haven't had an experience top this:

I replied to a posting from Texags for a sales role several years back. I did a phone interview with the person that posted it, and that went great. Did an in-person interview with the VP, sales manager, and a senior member of the sales team, and that went great. Came back to do a personality assessment test and that went well. The company then asks me to do a skype interview with a 3rd party consultant they work with to wrap the process up.

Don't recall what day of the week it was but the skype interview was set for 2:00PM. I was still working full time during this with another employer that had me spending lots of time in the field in the middle of the summer. I get home for the interview around 12:30 and my phone rings at almost 1:00, the number is a Chicago area code, same area code as the consultant. Having just come in from the heat, I am dirty, sweaty, and wearing a baseball cap, but I go ahead and answer. We proceed to have a normal conversation for about 45 mins and as we are wrapping up the consultant asks something along the line of "do you always wear baseball caps for interviews?" I respond that I was under the impression the interview wasn't until 2 but decided to go ahead and answer and that I thought it showed my ability to be flexible and put the needs of the customer first, yada yada. I sent a follow up email to thank the dude for his time, no response.

2-3 days go by, and I get a call from the VP I had previously interview with and he has the consultant on the line with him. Tenor of the conversation is completely different than the earlier interviews. What had been casual feeling and fun conversations in the past were now much more formal and tense feeling. In an earlier interview the VP said that a successful sales person should be making 6 figures with the company easily but in this conversation that salary range was met with incredulity when I answered that I thought I could make that. Towards the end of the call the consultant brings up the baseball cap again. I again explain that his call was an hour earlier than scheduled but in the back of my mind I was already feeling like this guy was weirdly fixated on a freaking hat. Didn't get the job, thank goodness lol! I have seen that company post several times since then and even seen a post from an employee looking elsewhere and unhappy with the company. Never been happier to have a baseball cap derail a promising interview lol

Bad interviews weed out bad companies for you. That's been my experience.

Interviewed with BofA out of A&M for their IB Group. This lady was a VP in the Oil & Gas coverage team (complete smoke show, but that's not really relevant) and she asks me the best example of a cyclical industry that I can think of. I tell her oil and energy because it's demand-dependent on the economy, supply cannot match demand changes, activity and outlook of the swing line producer, and a few other things. She said I don't really see oil and energy as cyclical because it's always needed. I said you should tell that to oilfield services. She got really annoyed and eventually we sat in silence for a good 3-4 minutes. Found out later she was negging candidates to see how they responded when a senior person was dominant or wrong. Guess they weren't looking for sarcasm.

I hate all the games so many interviewers play. Just find out if the candidate can do the damned job or not and if they would mesh with the team.