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Hi folks,
Can anyone confirm the variable policy of TechM, is it monthly or quarterly.
Heard from few folks that its was changed to quarterly and in offer letter nowhere its mentioned that its monthly or quarterly.simply said applicable as per variable policy.
Any folks recently joined and received salary please confirm it.
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“i just fell asleep in the elevator”
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Straight out of college first of three interviews for the company that day - it was a bank I worked for and I was looking to switch departments. The first interviewer looked at my resume said “you’re not gonna get this job” and then her and the rest interviewed me for three hours to “give me the experience.”
Now I would say “no thanks” and just leave but I was straight out of college and thought I could wow them 🙄
“And for my next act, I will pretend to be a tenured professional when I literally was just birthed into the corporate world” 😂
I know a ton of young friends going through this too right now lol.
18 year old blonde white female. I don’t own a car, so I’m walking 15-20 minutes across University of Florida campus for my very first job interview in my life. I’m a couch-surfing homeless youth and only have one nice shirt, a white button up.
I had just moved to central/north central Florida, and did not realize that it will, without warning and without fail and in sunny cloudless skies, rain cats and dogs on a daily basis every single afternoon. Instant wet shirt contest. My white blouse was now easy advertisement for the very bright school colors (orange and blue) I happened to be wearing under my shirt that day.
I didn’t know what else to do but keep walking to the interview. Luckily my interview was with women instead of men. They gave me a free dark green company T- shirt to change into, and (much to my surprise) let me continue the interview.
I worked there two years :)
Interviewer fell asleep while I was talking
I am sorry but what 😂🤣 I need to know what you did after he fell asleep😂
I got all those horrible stupid interview questions at one agency that no longer exists.
“How many ping pong balls fit in a 747?”
“How many streetlights are there in NYC?”
He was just rattling off these questions from a list on a piece of paper and there were a lot of them.
I stopped him and said look, I get it, but I have to go now
Ok this one made me go what the actual hell
First job of my career... went to a 5 hour interview (yes, really) with folks back to back. They used to call it the gauntlet. Anyway - went with walking pneumonia and whooping cough. Immediately went to my car after and cried my eyes out convinced I bombed it. Ended up getting an offer and took the job. Was with them 5 years.
Lol no but that doesn't surprise me.
First interview straight out of college - a man asked me to answer questions about HIM (what's his favorite sports team, what is his family life like outside of work, etc) and tried to "teach" me that I should be more observant about people because there were clues all around his office. It was so completely condescending and humiliating that I had to pull over as soon as I drove out of sight from the building because of a panic attack and complete meltdown
Ugh what is it with some people! Yes, definitely all good now. Had another interview a couple months later and it went so smoothly, like I instantly just clicked with the interviewers. Once I had that reference point as comparison I realized how important it is for me to interview these companies just like they're interviewing me. So, I guess he did teach me something in the end!
Interviewer was in the car, on video, while driving.
Was his Lyft passenger taking notes?? WTH??🤬
I once went to an interview where they accidentally transposed the date digits on my invite via what they sent to the team.
So their travel dept booked flights and everything for the 12th, but when I showed up they’re like…..why are you here? And we figured out that someone had transposed it on the schedule as the 21st
Waited for an hour, then they did the interviews anyway but instead of back to back it was like 1 interview, 30 min break, then 2 interviews, 2 hour break etc to accommodate last minute schedules
They gave me an extra $50 budget for dinner and I got the offer. Did not take it in the end, but not because of that experience
Early in my career I was having an interview with the hiring manager and about half way though I knew I didn't want the job. Also the room had no windows so I started getting tunnel vision and his head suddenly appeared to get smaller and smaller while he was talking. After we were done he asked me to go to HR for a personality test and I declined saying that I changed my mind about the job. His reaction was disbelief.
“Hell nah” *exits*
“Sell me this pen”
“No, you clearly already have one so my value prop is moot…but what I can sell you is my amazing skill set”
Not as bad but I had a campus interview with CVENT where the interviewer started asking technical network secruity questions before we even sat down.
Oh, ew ew ewww
If you are sick, email the recruiter/hiring manager to reschedule. Most people are understanding.
Update us when you hear back, OP!
Silver lining that you weren’t IRL!
Full day of interviews with each team member, followed by a panel interview. This was on Monday after taking a cfa test over the weekend. I was so drained, could no longer put two words together. Needless to say, didn’t get the job and now try to be thoughtful when scheduling interviews. Gotta be able to put your best foot forward, mentally and emotionally.
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Aw honey! Bless your heart. Glad to see you’re rocking the VP title now for all your hard work :)
Back in the 80s, I had an interview for a government job. They asked very invasive, inappropriate questions about my personal life under the guise of it being necessary for the job. I was very young at the time. I was squeaky clean and hadn’t had many experiences so there was only so far they could go with me on questioning, but some of my friends had a more difficult time because the interviewers wanted so many salacious details about their intimate lives. It was completely inappropriate.
I got the job and thankfully didn’t have to deal with that again. Why did I take the job? It was a different time back then. Times have changed and now, people widely recognize that those things are wrong. Today I would have handled it differently. But back then things were different; there was little recourse. It was easy to feel completely powerless and the glass ceiling was a lot lower then.
One interview I had for an internship I could NOT stop coughing. It was horrible. My eyes were watering and I couldn’t get a word in. It was so embarrassing. I did not get the job!
Thanks. It was ok. You know how sometimes you’re getting over being such and you get a tickle in your throat and every time you inhale air you have to cough? That was me. If I had a cough drop I would’ve been ok. Lesson learned to always bring a cough drop just in case!!
The interviewer looked bored/restless and kept walking around the room lol while I spoke about why I wanted to work at this company etc and why in that specific area (I think something around social media). At one point he couldn't take it and actually asked me 'what is social media according to you'. Lol. Well
Interviewed at a fuel additive company, did some research after accepting the interview and it looked like there wasn't any benefit to mileage or the car. So I put on a suit, have the interview and ask "is your product snake oil" straight out of the gate and the response was, it works, I promise. He then pivots to how would you prove it wasn't snake oil and talks about how 3 years is a lifetime in VC and they were looking to pump and dump and I could come along on the next gig if I did well. For some reason I didn't get the gig...
Many, many years ago during the dotcom boom for my first job I interviewed at a coffee shop with an interviewer who treated it much more like a date and was flirty throughout. Epic company so I was happy to walk the interviewer home at which point they propositioned me. Not really my type, but I really wanted the job so I did it. Then, when I got the offer, it was for a good chunk less than what another local startup had offered so I didn’t take it. The interviewer was *not* happy with me, as if I’d personally jilted them, but I just wanted to make a lot of money. Made the right choice as despite their big name they folded a year later and the place I picked is still operational.
This is everything 😂
Spent my whole birthday interviewing while I was on PTO in another country for vacation. The whole day I had to wait around because they kept rescheduling me. Thank god they made me the offer eventually! But it was a very anxious bday full of interviews
PS they didn’t know i was on PTO on vacay but I wish I had just asked them to reschedule completely.