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Stress before the interview


Forum Post 3 Answers Stress before the interview

Hi,

so I prepared well for an on-site interview but couldn't get a good sleep due to being nervous. I ended up doing quite poorly because of the lack of sleep.

Now I'm waiting for the result. I really cared about this interview. Do you think I should tell my recruiter about the situation or would it be regarded as unprofessional?

Thank you. And watch out for being nervous! Either calm yourself down somehow (convince yourself it's not a big deal, which I couldn't), or have sleeping pills ready just in case.

 - martin.konicek@commercetools.de December 21, 2012 | Flag |


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Your performance will usually be evaluated based on feedback from the interviewers, and you won't get an offer unless they said good things. There's therefore no benefit to telling the recruiter, and it could sound a little bit like you're making excuses. It also betrays a lack of experience with the interview process and is slightly unprofessional for that reason as well. I would advise against it.

The best thing to do is to just learn from your mistake and not make the same mistake twice. Just about everyone makes some interview blunders early in the job search.

- eugene.yarovoi December 21, 2012 | Flag Reply
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Thanks Eugene! This is what I thought too.

It might just leave the interviewer wondering why a candidate has surprisingly hard time solving easy problems. As an interviewer you'd probably like to know what's going on?

But then, you're probably right and the candidates should just learn to deal with it.

- martin.konicek@commercetools.de December 21, 2012 | Flag
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@Martin.. Well I believe... thats was a Amazon First Round.. I too humped my First round last year becoz of similar reason.. I wasn't actually prepared for the kind of question they will ask in First round and went with big algo's and all.. but finally the time went like anything..

From my experience what I can tell U.. is leave the rest on them. Even if you try to contact them they won't be able to help you. Coz its online and who know who is going to check it.

And probably U gonna get a next chance after 6 months time as well.. But hope U'll get better than me.. coz now I got call for ASE after I screwed last year call for SDE 2..

- hprem991 December 21, 2012 | Flag Reply




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