I went on an interview...
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- drgz0
vacation time?
- SoulFly0
aliastime - companies will tell you they will be contacting you within the next 2 weeks of something, but the truth is they are not ready to make a decision. They will say that by default but they may not be ready to fill the position for maybe weeks to come.
- MSTRPLN0
"Sorry, you were supposed to have been contacted. We can't offer you the position at this time, but thanks for your well organized PSDs, they'll come in useful."
- CyBrain0
Sometimes, a job might disappear. An account falls through, red tape, miscellaneous corporate bull shit.
- monospaced0
show us your work, maybe we can help
- boobs0
Let's be serious here for a moment: I would only hire seriously hot chicks for any position I was looking to fill. Srsly.
- so your company goes out of business? You're a bright one.FredMcWoozy
- Whats even worse is you're actually serious.FredMcWoozy
- aliastime0
Not showing my work to you vultures.
Really though, I made an alias incase my boss comes browsing through.
- vaxorcist0
Sometimes clients take a few months.... they suddenly get distracted by something different, then they call you in a state of semi-panic and need you to do something immediately... and/or they hire somebody else who messes up then they call you in a panic....
in the past this happened to me after an interview... took me a while to discover that they hired somebody else who didn't do stuff well...
- stewdio0
If an organization asks you to do a "marketing challenge" or similar in order to possibly get the job, just walk out of the interview. (Possibly after urinating on their desk and person.)
- Fantasy Interactive comes to mind ...Continuity
- wow really?acrossthesea
- Their application process for designers includes a series of design tests.Continuity
- could make an interesting movie.... comedy or horror?!?vaxorcist
- Like what your take on what the Apple website would be like.Continuity
- chivas0
Seems too long.
I thought an interview of mine went really well and didn't hear anything for about 10 days. Then I decided to give them a call and they basically told me, "Sorry, you were supposed to have been contacted. We can't offer you the position at this time."
I think some companies will just decide to avoid any sort of confrontation by not contacting you as a way of telling you that you didn't get the job. Not saying that's the case with you, but that practice annoys the hell out of me.
- monNom0
^ good advice if you've got the past experience and portfolio to show. Skill tests are a totally valid request if you're green and don't really have the background to prove your abilities. This goes for lateral moves too. E.g. a print-focused designer with 10years experience who is moving to his first web job might expect a proficiency test of some sort.
- OSFA0
I would follow up... that way you know for sure what's up.
- i_monk0
^
- Juanmonk0
Pick up the phone mate, no point sitting about wondering and waiting. Seems a bit long but, aye.
- CyBrain0
Move to NY. We need some serious help over here.
- utopian0
Don't take this the wrong way, but if you are afraid to show us your work then your work must be pretty weak.
- d_rek0
Yeah. A friendly phone call works well. Email is a little easier to ignore, but I might follow up a missed call with an email.
- aliastime0
Was going to email, but I'll try the call. Might have to wait until Monday. Suddenly got swamped at my other job.