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Is an underwhelming product demo during interview a red flag?
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I was in an interview and at the end I requested if they could do a quick demo of their SaaS (Software as a Service) product. Basically, think I am interviewing at stackoverflow and I ask them to show me around the website.
The interviewer then showed me their test environment, it took quite a long time to load the login page and for the interviewer to actually log in. I am not 100% sure if it was caused by application initialization, but I find it not very convincing as it was middle of the day, other developers must have accessed the test environment therefore the application should have already been initialized.
The interviewer proceeded to show me a few sections of the product, each time only showing me the page itself but not the functionality. For once they tried, it didn't work. I understand it's a test environment and things break, but I find it suspicious. There's gotta be something they are proud of or know quite well to show me, right?
The whole demo probably lasted less than 1 minute and the interviewer went on discussing other topics. It felt quite underwhelming to me, and the interviewer didn't show any passion like "Hey look at this feature, it's pretty cool! Let me show you!"
I wouldn't take this job anyway, for other reasons. However, I would like to know if is this a major red flag when considering other jobs in the future?
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I was in an interview and at the end I requested if they could do a quick demo of their SaaS (Software as a Service) product. Basically, think I am interviewing at stackoverflow and I ask them to show me around the website.
The interviewer then showed me their test environment, it took quite a long time to load the login page and for the interviewer to actually log in. I am not 100% sure if it was caused by application initialization, but I find it not very convincing as it was middle of the day, other developers must have accessed the test environment therefore the application should have already been initialized.
The interviewer proceeded to show me a few sections of the product, each time only showing me the page itself but not the functionality. For once they tried, it didn't work. I understand it's a test environment and things break, but I find it suspicious. There's gotta be something they are proud of or know quite well to show me, right?
The whole demo probably lasted less than 1 minute and the interviewer went on discussing other topics. It felt quite underwhelming to me, and the interviewer didn't show any passion like "Hey look at this feature, it's pretty cool! Let me show you!"
I wouldn't take this job anyway, for other reasons. However, I would like to know if is this a major red flag when considering other jobs in the future?
interviewing
asked 19 mins ago
Billy.BobBilly.Bob
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The interviewer showed poor judgement in attempting a demo that they had not planned, and were poorly prepared for. It was an attempt to carry out your request, but it would probably have been better to decline.
– Patricia Shanahan
7 mins ago
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I was in an interview and at the end I requested if they could do a quick demo of their SaaS (Software as a Service) product. Basically, think I am interviewing at stackoverflow and I ask them to show me around the website.
The interviewer then showed me their test environment, it took quite a long time to load the login page and for the interviewer to actually log in. I am not 100% sure if it was caused by application initialization, but I find it not very convincing as it was middle of the day, other developers must have accessed the test environment therefore the application should have already been initialized.
The interviewer proceeded to show me a few sections of the product, each time only showing me the page itself but not the functionality. For once they tried, it didn't work. I understand it's a test environment and things break, but I find it suspicious. There's gotta be something they are proud of or know quite well to show me, right?
The whole demo probably lasted less than 1 minute and the interviewer went on discussing other topics. It felt quite underwhelming to me, and the interviewer didn't show any passion like "Hey look at this feature, it's pretty cool! Let me show you!"
I wouldn't take this job anyway, for other reasons. However, I would like to know if is this a major red flag when considering other jobs in the future?
interviewing
asked 19 mins ago
Billy.BobBilly.Bob
5431 gold badge5 silver badges13 bronze badges
I was in an interview and at the end I requested if they could do a quick demo of their SaaS (Software as a Service) product. Basically, think I am interviewing at stackoverflow and I ask them to show me around the website.
The interviewer then showed me their test environment, it took quite a long time to load the login page and for the interviewer to actually log in. I am not 100% sure if it was caused by application initialization, but I find it not very convincing as it was middle of the day, other developers must have accessed the test environment therefore the application should have already been initialized.
The interviewer proceeded to show me a few sections of the product, each time only showing me the page itself but not the functionality. For once they tried, it didn't work. I understand it's a test environment and things break, but I find it suspicious. There's gotta be something they are proud of or know quite well to show me, right?
The whole demo probably lasted less than 1 minute and the interviewer went on discussing other topics. It felt quite underwhelming to me, and the interviewer didn't show any passion like "Hey look at this feature, it's pretty cool! Let me show you!"
I wouldn't take this job anyway, for other reasons. However, I would like to know if is this a major red flag when considering other jobs in the future?
interviewing
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The interviewer showed poor judgement in attempting a demo that they had not planned, and were poorly prepared for. It was an attempt to carry out your request, but it would probably have been better to decline.
– Patricia Shanahan
7 mins ago
add a comment |
The interviewer showed poor judgement in attempting a demo that they had not planned, and were poorly prepared for. It was an attempt to carry out your request, but it would probably have been better to decline.
– Patricia Shanahan
7 mins ago
The interviewer showed poor judgement in attempting a demo that they had not planned, and were poorly prepared for. It was an attempt to carry out your request, but it would probably have been better to decline.
– Patricia Shanahan
7 mins ago
The interviewer showed poor judgement in attempting a demo that they had not planned, and were poorly prepared for. It was an attempt to carry out your request, but it would probably have been better to decline.
– Patricia Shanahan
7 mins ago
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