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tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Psi on June 28, 2021, 09:30:08 am ---Yeah, most people screw up their first one. It's normal.
I screwed up on my first one too.

Ideally bring something in with you, something to show off your design skills and talk about. It can be a hobby project. Ideally something physical, plus maybe a print out of it's schematic and PCB etc.. or a section of interesting code you wrote, if it has code any. (Don't print out all the code, just any cool bits)

This helps in a few ways.
- It demonstrates that you actually have technical ability and puts you ahead of people who show up with nothing.
- You can show it off to them and explain how it works in detail because you know it very well.
- You will find it much less stressful to talk about something that you know well and be less nervous talking about it.
- It uses up interview time on something that you know and reducing the interview time where they might ask you questions you don't know.
- Instead of being asked random questions they ask you questions related to the thing you brought in, which are usually much easier questions to answer.

If you're lucky, you will just sit there for the entire interview time talking with their engineers about your product, how it works and what decisions you made when designing it and problems you encountered and how you fixed them.
There won't be any time left for anything else.
Usually the engineer interviewing you is just as annoyed at having to come up with general questions to ask you. So having something to talk about makes their life easier too and they will like that.

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All very true.

IMNSHO a hobby project is good, since it demonstrates that you like the subject so much that you want to do it. By inference you will enjoy working on the company's projects.

Psi:
Engineers tend to like physical things, taking them apart and seeing how they work.
Showing up with something cool instantly makes all the engineers at the company prick up their ears and become interested to see what it is and how it works and they will remember your interview over their interviews with other candidates.

OR,

You may find that an HR person is doing all the interview and not engineers.
However, if an engineer notices from the other side of the office that you have some circuit or device with you they may come over to see what it is.
This gets you an important advantage that the other candidates may not have had, a way to bypass HR

mzdenkov:

--- Quote from: RJHayward on June 28, 2021, 07:52:52 am ---   I think a recruiter (that you trust) could mention you a little nervous initially. That kind of talk is often 'off the record'.
  "He was nervous, but then we got a coffee, downstairs. I was amazed what he said about working at INTEL / etc etc."

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Few years ago, when i was more stupid than i am now, i screwed up one interview, but that was the best interview i had in my life.
Casual engineering talk, HR person gave all people in the lab small glasses of schnapps, and well i didnt keep the contact after because
hard exams came. -> job offer failed.

Worst question is "what payment level do you expect", because i have no XP in working sector, i must say " i dont know, i have no XP in workong sector " which is unprofessional  IMHO.
Most engineers keep their payment level secret. -> cant say "ill be your slave for minimal payment".

I like to share my knowledge (for free), and if i could chose, more productive way would be to talk about that, so HR person can decide what i know and if that fits them.
And its bad that HR person is an electrical engineer(person form the beginning of the topic) but acted like some manager(still its not an excuse from my perspective, for my faults ).

Thanks you for the examples of Q&A. Most of them were presented to me, and i think i gave the wrong answers because im an ultra HONEST person.

tggzzz:
"What pay do you want?" Easy :)

Offer me wt I am worth to you. If you pay me much more than your existing employees, they may become unhappy. If it is less than I think I am worth, then I would be unhappy if I accepted the over.

Refrigerator:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 01, 2021, 06:07:33 pm ---"What pay do you want?"

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"how much do you consider too much?"  ;D

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