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Anon, ask the Admin to post an update to the list about how the interview
went.
Speaking of background checks, last night I went to a [discount store -
email me and I'll tell you the name]. As I was checking out, the cashier
told me that she had interviewed someone and wanted to hire them. She said
that she had been waiting on the background check for two weeks. In the
meantime, there are only two people working at the store. She went on to say
that she put in 96 hours last week and her co-worker put in 83 hours. I
said, "At least you get time and a half." She said, "No, I'm salary." I
would be very surprised if her annual salary was above $40000. I hope that
the background checks she is waiting for come through very soon!
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Subject: Re: Advice needed for an upcoming interview
So how did the interview go?
I went for one also. I actually had another job, but they fooled around so
long on the background check, I took another in the meantime. I cannot say
enough bad things about HireRight and their inability to do background
checks. In three weeks, they couldn't verify my high school. In 10 minutes,
I could. I even had the people at the school waiting for their call and
HireRight still couldn't do it.
The new job was quick. Friday a phone interview, Tuesday in person since
Monday was tied up, and Wednesday morning they made the offer. Their
background check took a day.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 10:02 AM
Subject: Advice needed for an upcoming interview
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> I have a job interview on Thursday. I documented an embedded version of
> the
> company's product at a previous position, so I have some familiarity with
> it. But self-doubt begins to creep in as the interview approaches,
> especially since it's scheduled to last 4 hours and includes a technical
> VP
> and I feel that my technical skills are my weakest attribute (shamefully,
> I
> don't know any programming languages).
>
> Does anyone have advice for how to endure such a long interview? What
> kind
> of questions should I be prepared for, especially from the VP and the SE
> that will be interviewing me?
>
> The company's product makes heavy use of both regular expressions and
> APIs.
> There were recently a couple of threads about good API documentation that
> are good resources. But how about regular expressions? Any suggestions for
> reading up on those?
>
> I am just starting out in this field: if I get this job, it would be only
> my third position as a technical writer, so please excuse these rather
> nervous and fundamental questions. Any other advice, of course, would also
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
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