This has been eating me up all day! So, this morning I had a university interview (over the phone) and all went Ok I think, I made a few mistakes, apparently I was meant to talk about the colour palette of Pokemon and I didn’t and I didn’t have much teamwork experience but other then that it was pretty smooth sailing, but at the end the guy said “I think I’ve heard enough”?
It seems like the type of thing you would say if it was a negative result? The guy interviewing me clearly had a criteria of information they wanted so perhaps it was just because the questions were over, but still I would have expected different wording… what do you think of this? Does this mean I screwed up or something?
Hmmm… really it could be either positive or negative. It seems like it would really depend on tone. Looking at it optimistically, maybe they were interested in you, and just wanted to check one or two things. Of course it be the other way too.
Well, I wouldn’t say the tone was bad, but its kind of hard to tell. Nah, I didn’t send a follow up Email as they said they would get back to me in a few weeks suppose I’ll just wait and see… nerve racking though considering I have no idea how it went.
I don’t know as choice of words changes a lot from one country to the next. It could be that he didn’t want to waste any more of his time, or it could be that he was thinking “yeah, um, he’s in”.
You should send a follow up email. Generally it is good practice and keeps your name on their mind. Just really a “thank you for interview, yadda, yadda, I look forward to hearing from you.” Many times it will elicit a quick response (good, bad or we’ll let you know).
In very rare cases, (strong interview, felt a good connection was made), you can send and “assumption” email. Like “it was great meeting you, blah, blah, good fit, blah, blah, I am available to start on [insert date]. Let me know if that works or another date is better.”
I tried this twice, it worked once and failed once. The “worked” case was for a lead role, big company and I knew that they needed someone right away. (taking the initiative helped, because it was a leadership role) They responded the same day with an offer and forms for moving allowance. The other case (I found out), there were two candidates that were above me. Didn’t hurt my chances, but let me know right away that I was 3rd in line.
I don’t think its really appropriate, this was a interview for a course not a job. I think that with the institute I applied for would feel that by putting myself in that situation would make me seem as though I’m trying to put myself in front of everyone and whilst it might work it could also backfire and show that I’m insecure about how my interview went and my work. I think that by leaving it this way I’m on a level playing ground, I feel that I probably had one of the best folios of those that would have applied and hopefully that can confirm me a spot.
All my eggs are in four baskets, I’m not sure if one of them exists, another has a hole that getting bigger quickly, the third is still all together AFAIK but I haven’t had a chance to break it yet and then this is my other basket… hopefully I will get accepted to one course
Also I was just thinking how awkward it would be if the interviewer was a member of these forums.
if it was just an interview for a course don’t read too much into it.
It could just mean he has spent enough time on this one and needs to move to the next.
don’t stress too much, your portfolio is more important than the interview in most situations. My current job I would be safe to assume was based on portfolio (I didn’t get the actual job cause my skillset didn’t fit, but they offered me a different job on same pay which did fit).
I think your right on not following up. Did you ask when a decision would be made? You should follow up if you haven’t heard by then.
Universities here in Australia will fill their classes up with more people they can take (more $$) since they don’t expect people to follow through the whole way; they have a pretty good rough idea of how many people will drop out before the semester is up.
Im sick of seeing people in my areas worrying about whether they will get into their choice of Uni. unless you’re trying to go to MIT or Harvard or something honestly you have no problem in getting in. As long as you have the right amount of UCAS points you’ll be fine mate, its like the 1% that dont get in and that’s because they have garbage personal statements. you’ll be fine
Thanks for the confidence boost guys, but it doesn’t seem like it works like that in Australia, I thought a course like this would be relatively easy to get into but now I’m not so sure… Ahh, oh well nothing I can do really.
If I can beat 25% of people at English tomorrow then I’ll have another basket so fingers crossed for that! Hopefully the guy that did my interview liked it, if you’re out there man, I LOVE YOU! can’t wait until the 18th of november at 6, thats when my VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education(?)) is over!!!
Hey, that’s where I’m studying!
I assume you are applying at the Melbourne campus?
Edit: You have made a pretty good choice in terms of where to study, the course is awesome.
Just don’t expect to be using Unity. You will be using C++ for almost the entire year, with a bit of Python and C# (no Unity).
Oop… sorry I missed that part. Yea, probably not appropriate. Government jobs and academic applications are much more formal and usually have a specific process.
That is perfectly acceptable. Python is used in Autodesk scripting and server-side scripting. You can even build apps on with it. If you have a foundation and can code well, Unity C# is easy to pick-up.
