Job InterviewI probably should not blog this, but I had a few interviews recently and one of them was a disaster.

As many of you know, we are always in the market to hire good PHP programmers. So we interview a lot of people very often. In fact, we have a whole process we follow. I'll do another post for that. But while this interview is fresh in my head....

A list of things not to do at an interview:

  • Don't argue that you like one coding language over another if the coding language isn't something we don't offer
  • Don't say that it doesn't matter to you what you code in, because I (the interviewee) am not paying for it
  • Don't not answer questions because you feel they are too simple or dumb
  • Do not act like you know better than the person you are interviewing with
  • Do not roll your eyes while be interviewed
  • Do not ask how the interview is going mid-way, when you know it is not going well
  • Do not come into the interview not researching the company before hand

Those are just some items on a list, fresh off my head.

I am still a bit in awe.