<p>So I had an interview this past week and I bs’ed on a few questions and it was pretty obvious to the interviewer. Overall it was alright. Alright pretty much means there’s not much hope yah?</p>
<p>So how does it work? If one does really well on the interview, but has an unimpressive resume(avg i guess), do they go back and double check to make sure that this applicant is worthy of the job?</p>
<p>Let me know about your experiences with interviews since I’m kinda new to this.</p>
<p>oh yeah how often do engineers get technical questions?</p>
<p>Resume essentially doesn’t matter after an interview. Might be a tie-breaker between two candidates who interviewed equally well. Gotta love interview season.</p>
<p>Despite what a lot of people would tell you, resume absolutely matters even at the interview stage. Our group was quite involved with recruiting this past summer (mostly for experienced hires but some accelerated analyst hires too) so I have witnessed a lot of prejudice and pre-formed opinion before interviews even took place. </p>
<p>Resume shapes people’s perception of you before you are even there. I have seen an AVP who was told to interview a guy, looked at the resume before the interview, and complained “***, waste of my time” and dinged the guy before the interview even started (he typed the recommend-to-hire/no-hire report that interviewers send to HR before he even interviewed the guy).</p>
<p>That’s an example of a pre interview opinion.</p>
<p>If you do well and impress your interviewer, get him/her to like you, show you know your s*** and can do the work, you will beat out someone with a better resume who didn’t show he/she deserves the job. Given that they both get the interview, I’d rather take a 3.5 from a non-target who wowed me with their knowledge, intent interest, and personality, than a 3.9 Wharton kid who didn’t sell me well on why I should hire him or didn’t seem he would get along with me well.</p>
<p>I’m sure biases can still exist even after interviews, but if you knock it out of the park and show that you’re worthy, a 3.3 or any average credential isn’t going to hold you back.</p>
<p>Yo b, you interviewing for FT or heading back?</p>
<p>Well I do agree to a certain extent but I am just saying that a bad resume can always come back to haunt you even if you network your way to an interview. </p>
<p>A lot of times, perception is reality, and your resume is an interviewer’s first impression of you, at least on paper. It is an uphill battle to overcome a bad first impression.</p>
<p>Prejudice and bias aside, there are other ways a bad resume can hurt you.</p>
<p>Take this as an example. I was at a superday with mostly business majors and me, an engineering major last winter. There were 8 interviewers in total and round robin style, where each interviewer judge you on different things. So one interviewer would judge your fit, another would judge your market knowledge, another would judge your technical knowledge.
There was a “quantitative and problem solving ability” interviewer, who was supposed to just throw brainteasers and statistics problem at you for 30 minutes. When I interviewed with the guy, he said, “given that you are doing well academically in an engineering major, I doubt it’s necessary to do these stupid math crap”, and proceeded to talk about college football for the entire half hours. </p>
<p>So if anything, a resume lacking experience or stellar academic background would give you a harder time during interviews because people would be more eager to test you technically and a good resume would allow interviewers to give you the benefit of doubt.</p>
<p>"Yo b, you interviewing for FT or heading back? "
Most likely heading back unless something happens in the near future</p>
<p>a friend(3.9+ COE) got an interview with GM right after he gave them his resume during the career fair, how often does this occur? I mean do they act differently depending on one’s qualifications?
is it something along the lines
if one’s underqualified, the recruiter will take his resume and discard it later on
qualified -> further consideration
extremely qualified ->scores an interview right away?</p>