I just want to conduct a survey on what is the most likely interview session(time) for Successful candidates.

- Please Do not include the written aptitude/IQ test.

This post has been edited by ralf: Dec 6 2006, 08:43 PM

interviewer session,

the longest - 25minutes
the quickest - 15minutes

may i know is your interview successful for 25minutes?
- what are the questions being ask?
- how many interviewer?
- what position is that?

Let's share.

There's a survey stated: The first 30seconds to 1minute is the key session to decide you get the job or not
So, after 1minutes, the interviewer just want to reconfirm whether they made the correct decision or not...???


whao, the one who vote for k)> 1hour 30minutes, pls share your interesting experience.

This post has been edited by ralf: Dec 6 2006, 08:45 PM

So far after graduate only 2 interview:

The longest = about 1 hour and 30 minutes (1 interviewer)
The quikest = 25 minute (1 interviewer)

Both also successful..I'm in engineering field, so all the question is related to technical (especially the longest interview...very very technical.. )

If more than 1hours interview, I guess the company waste yr time some more no entertain to pretend for interviewee too.....

1 hour
30 mins - technical questions by techy ppl
30 mins - behavioral by hiring manager

the longest - 1hour 30mins - 2hours

the shortest - 30mins

wanna know wat they interview also in that long a time

for me, longest 1 hour since got 3 person interview me, shortest about 15 minutes

if it is over 1 hour, you can cut it short, just end it.

questions on -

job scope
personality
been given a scenario, so they wanted to see my reaction/response

position - research officer

wow, 1.30-2hours
harrychoo,

what's the question being asked?

more on technical?

The interview for my current job took almost the whole working day.

This post has been edited by David83: Dec 6 2006, 10:45 PM

longest 2+ hours ( my current job)..as my boss's like giving me presentation about the company.....

shortest was about 15mins.....lol

Hahaha I rembered mine

1st company shortest... 0 minutes... (head hunted)... hahahhaa

2nd company Longest 3.5 hours... (that interviewer talk more about the company)... remembered my stomach was GROWLING

3rd company 30 minutes.. because there were many other ppl waiting...

all 3 companies also I got the job... its technical...

This post has been edited by heseoh: Dec 6 2006, 11:52 PM

The interviews I've had usually not more than 45 minutes

5 minutes to introduce myself, 20 minutes for interviewer to ask question and probably another 20 minutes for interviewer to talk about the company culture and benefits.

shortest - 0 minutes (ok, i've been with the company before under the same ppl, so the nanager already known me)
longest - 3 hours, including 2:1 Q&A, written test

Just a contribution...
I had an interview with Intel MSC. The interview consisted of a 30 minute written programming test (which I flunked spectacularly) and 90 minutes of interview. Roughly one hour was on general stuff (i.e. past projects, my opinions on project management issues, etc.) and another half and hour was on programming languages, architecture, etc. Damn mentally exhausting.

Another interview with Ernst & Young for IT auditor position. I attended 2 interviews (bypassed the third one). Each interview was about an hour or so. The first interview was more on personality and educational/co-curricular background. The second one was more on the job spec. Mostly general discussion on the IT auditing field itself and went through some scenarios. It was a very interesting interview as I'm not familiar with the IT auditing industry. So I learnt a lot from the interview.

Finally, I had an interview with a consulting company. I think it was over an hour as well. The entire interview was a discussion on the previous projects that I have worked on and how I dealt with the issues that cropped up. Had a great time. Anyway, I enjoy attending interviews. It's a good opportunity to find out more about the industry.

-intro
-questions about why u leave, currrent job functions
-technical (this alone oledi take around 1 hour at least)
-Q&A ( i ask about their company and wat is the job scope)

i was once interviewed by the GM of a Sime Darby Subsidiary and it lasted like 30 mins.

i told her what she would love to hear and then she called the HR Exec. to confirm me on the spot.

I got mine in 3 hours, purely Q&A session with 4 interviwer.

This post has been edited by say_it: Dec 7 2006, 01:31 PM