Behavioral interviews seem like the new way to reject candidates based on "culture" without saying that though, because saying a candidate was rejected due to "culture incompatibility" can be taken as a bias or discrimination.
I interviewed at Netflix. The market is tough right now and they pay really well. I really wanted to pass.
I did great on their tech rounds. Their "culture round" is notoriously hard, people throw out advice like "read the culture memo". I did. Now I have no idea what I did "wrong" in the culture/behavioral interview with the first hiring manager, they passed, they gave me no feedback, but they still booked me for an interview with another team. I also failed with that hiring manager.
Yea, I thought the whole part on Behavioral Interviews was spot-on and appropriately dark and cynical.
> As far as I can tell, the “behavioral interview” is essentially the same as a Scientology intake session except, you know, for capitalism instead.
> A secondary goal of the “behavioral interview” is personality homogenization where companies want to enforce not hiring anybody “too different” from their current mean personality engram.
It really, REALLY does seem this way at many places.
Apologies if I am misreading you, but the fact that you keep putting culture and EQ into quotes signals to me that you think these are not important things. If that is the case, then yes, your EQ is bad.
I interviewed at Netflix. The market is tough right now and they pay really well. I really wanted to pass.
I did great on their tech rounds. Their "culture round" is notoriously hard, people throw out advice like "read the culture memo". I did. Now I have no idea what I did "wrong" in the culture/behavioral interview with the first hiring manager, they passed, they gave me no feedback, but they still booked me for an interview with another team. I also failed with that hiring manager.
Is it because my "EQ" is bad?