After a weird phone screen with a third party company that specializes on interviews, they sent me a "noreply" email saying, among other things: "your skillset is not a strong enough match to proceed at this time".
What bothers me is that they refer to my skillset, not my performance on this particular interview.
I wasn't interviewing for a specific role and the interview was just generic coding problems, so my skillset refers to my skills as a Software Engineer.. Am I not a match for a Software Engineer position?
This is just a matter of language but it's important because it changes completely the messageand is very discouraging for people getting started or struggling to get a job!!
It's okay to fail, I also failed Expedia and Snowflake at the same time and it's fine.
But then I passed the phone/online screens of Zulily, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon and ended up lading a job with Microsoft. But sure, Mulesoft is the authority to tell me I'm not good enough for a Software Engineer position (at this time, I guess I can't work yet).
As a side note, It's interesting how people pass interviews at bigger companies and fail at smaller companies, my friends had the same situation.
Btw, the interview was done by a third party, is this people working as a full time interviewers? Can they code or they just go around judging others?
Anyways, if you get discouraging feedback, keep preparing and applying to other places, no one has the authority to judge you as an engineer.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at MuleSoft (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2018
Interview
Interviewing with MuleSoft is a great experience! They hire people very carefully and also show a lot of respect to candidates throughout the whole process. Interviewers valued not only technical skills, but also personality and potential. The conversation with the interviewer was encouraging and heartening. What I sensed from the interviews is that this company really cares about people and talent developments.
Besides, my recruiter, Lefan Chi, was very responsive and supportive. Her pure energy and passion throughout the process made working with her a joy. It’s always touching and encouraging while seeing people put their hearts toward their jobs and care people and coworkers around them.
It's my pleasure to have the chance to work with the great team. I am very excited to join this company this summer!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you share how you make decisions for your undergrad schools, the first full-time job, the Master program, and applying to this internship?
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at MuleSoft (Pittsburgh, PA) in Sep 2017
Interview
On campus interview. Talk about resume projects and intern first. Then did an algorithm coding on paper about linked list. There were also some basic java questions, like the difference between hashmap and hashset.