YAJT: Rejection from Schlumberger

[SurgicalShark]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
Most of the time, if you are in for an interview, you are good enough. Everyone there is qualified. There is much more to being a good employee than just intelligence.

I am getting the same feeling, when hiring someone people look whether they can work with that person or not! Lessons learned.

Originally posted by: GeneValgene

i wouldn't want to hire someone who looks down on other people, and calls other people's questions "stupid"

I was venting...sometime you just learn lessons hard way. As someone earlier said EQ>IQ.

 

[EngenZerO]

Originally posted by: SurgicalShark

Originally posted by: EngenZerO
sorry bro...

its a cut throat world we live in...

good luck...

Thanks...I don't know whether I was over-qualified for the job or what??

i dunno, but i would guess it was the ivy leauge bug... if your competition is ivy leauge he is 100x better than you (in some people's eyes)

 

[IAteYourMother]

and people here are always going on about ivy leagues being simply a waste of money :roll:
there are advantages

 

[LordMorpheus]

I interview for a summer internship with schlumberger (i'm a sophomore mech student). I think I had some bad information, though, because all the other people interviewing for what I was (R&D internship rather than a field internship) were MA or Ph.D candidates. I haven't heard back yet but I think it's safe to assume the answer will be no (the interviewer said he was reccomending me but didn't think that they hired people at my level for R&D internships).

But that's OK because shell wants to give me 11k+housing+other goodies for the summer.

 

[GeneValgene]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
I interview for a summer internship with schlumberger (i'm a sophomore mech student). I think I had some bad information, though, because all the other people interviewing for what I was (R&D internship rather than a field internship) were MA or Ph.D candidates. I haven't heard back yet but I think it's safe to assume the answer will be no (the interviewer said he was reccomending me but didn't think that they hired people at my level for R&D internships).

But that's OK because shell wants to give me 11k+housing+other goodies for the summer.

shell is a good company to work for

 

[Parkre]

Dude, I am sorry.

My first round with schlumberger went fairly well, and I got a second interview the next day.

The second interview was a 3 hour 'group' interview. They pitch their little speel, which sounded great and they got a little more in depth as to what they do. The "interview" part had to deal with how you got along with others (6 other guys) building a paper tower to hold a box of staples. The recruiters paid close attention (but tried not to show it) to who could lead and who could follow. The guys on my team followed my lead very well, even the guys on the second team after I got switch teams halfway through, maybe they were just nervous or something and didn't want to take charge and screw up. I was happy for this part of the interview.

The other part of the interview was giving a presentation about ourselves, a Macgyver moment and a joke. I thought this part screwed me over as I am terrible public speaker. One on one is no problem, but even though there only 9 people listening, it still scares the hell outta me. My joke was asbismal....

During the pee-break, I learned that everyone else was there for full-time and I was the only one there for the Field Engineer intern.

So I was happy when I got the acceptance letter for the summer intern.

 

[Doodoo]

At my company I'm usually the only tech person interviewing for my department...at first i kept looking at qualifications and skills...but the other managers have taught me to look for personality. Everyone that makes it to the interview is qualified, but we look for someone that will fit in with our current staff. When co workers get along, it makes the entire department better as a whole. Based on your OP, i wouldn't have hired you. You seem overly confident...borderline cocky...and I don't care if you being over qualified is the most common reason you've heard. You talking down on the other applicants show that you wouldn't be a team player.