Timeline for What does it mean if an interviewer skips an asked question? [closed]
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| Jan 8, 2018 at 16:31 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jan 8, 2018 at 16:07 | vote | accept | Zaibis | ||
| Jan 8, 2018 at 15:49 | comment | added | Masked Man | Thanks, your above comment makes the situation more clear to me. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 14:55 | comment | added | Zaibis | @MaskedMan: Well I describe that in my question. I say its either multiple interviewers where they ask diferent question at the same time. Or a single interviewer asking a question but before I get to answer it he thinks of another question and asks that one too. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 14:53 | comment | added | Zaibis | @Paparazzi: yeah I'm sorry, not a native speaker so that might occur. Hard to fiy tho. Thats why I try to clearify in my comments what others asked. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 14:49 | comment | added | Masked Man | How does an interviewer "skip" an already asked question? Does it go like this? "Zaibis, could you tell me the asymptotic complexity of insertion sort? Oh wait ... let's skip that and go to the next question ..." It is really hard to understand what you are asking here. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 14:44 | history | closed |
Bernhard Barker Philipp paparazzo David K Masked Man |
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| Jan 8, 2018 at 14:14 | comment | added | paparazzo | Your question and comments are all over the place. You are not using the word coincidentally correctly. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 14:05 | answer | added | user8036 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 13:57 | answer | added | Philipp | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 13:21 | comment | added | Zaibis | @Dukeling: Well, no this intention of this question is about if this HAS some meaning. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 13:15 | comment | added | Bernhard Barker | It's an interview and interviews are short and it's not productive to spend half the time waiting an answer. You might be looking too hard for meaning in something that's just an issue of practicality. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 13:12 | history | edited | Zaibis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2018 at 12:55 | comment | added | Zaibis | @JoeStrazzere: Well, my "strugling" is sometimes connected with requests for clarification of a question, which might be understood as pettifoggery, while its actually important for me due to my asperger. But that might just happen some times. And no I'm not directly concerned, its more like I tryed to figure out similaritys of well run interviews which didnt get me the job in the end. And thats all I could figure out. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 12:54 | comment | added | Brandin | @Zaibis If the question is a knowledge question but you need a moment to recall, give feedback like 'I know this. Give me a moment...'. If it is a question that requires some creativity and you need time, say so, with an estimate 'I need about 5 minutes to solve this.' | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 12:51 | comment | added | Zaibis | @Philipp: Might this make it maybe a better fit to be posted on IPS in that case? | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 12:51 | comment | added | Zaibis | @Dukeling: Yep, for now I want to figure out why someone might decide to skip it and by what reasons. The how to come back to it I planed to make a follow up post of this one, as I wasn't able to phrase that question, without knowing the meaning and relevance of doing so. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 12:48 | comment | added | Zaibis | @Brandin: I mean, these question coincidently allways and only appeared in an intervie with multiple interviewers, so actually 2 interviewer asked 2 diferent questions at the same time, where 1 of them was technically answerable for me, while the other wasnt. Or with just 1 interviewer, they rephrased their answer before I could answer it, into a diferent question. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 11:51 | answer | added | teego1967 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 10:34 | comment | added | Philipp | I am afraid that this question doesn't have enough information to tell us why the interviewers rejected you. You are mentioning one observation, but there is about a million more things you could do wrong without realizing it's an issue. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 10:10 | comment | added | Bernhard Barker | Related: If you provided an incorrect answer to a technical question on an interview, should you respond with a correct response? | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 9:49 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 8, 2018 at 9:44 | comment | added | Bernhard Barker | I'd suggest focusing your question how / whether to come back to a question that was skipped, since interview questions are asked for a reason, so them deciding to move on before you answer is obviously a bad sign (whether or not they believe you might've been able to answer the question given enough time seems irrelevant, the bottom line is that you didn't answer it). | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 8:30 | comment | added | Brandin | Could you clarify this part: "for some reasons every question I wouldn't have been able to answer appeared along diferent questions of other interviewers or even from the same" -- When you say that a question (that you can't answer) was "skipped" do you mean that it simply wasn't asked, or do you mean that the interviewer asked it, and then skipped it when you couldn't answer? | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 3:24 | history | asked | Zaibis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |