Things that make me happy: #infosec, chocolate. Things that make me sad: crypto paranoia, misplaced apostrophes. He/him
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This week has been a roller coaster. Received an award from the UK's professional body for the infosec industry. Then got the good news that the people I've been interviewing with are going to make me an offer!
🎢 But what comes up must come down and it did when I actually received the joke of an offer
Been a couple days now and I still feel horrible about that last job
interview. I don't know how to shake this feeling. I know I shouldn't
feel this way, but I still do.
I'm the kind of person to be open about both my strengths and my
weaknesses. I knew going into it that I'm not that proficient in
Python. I can deal with structured data any day with it, but working
with unstructured data is a different story.
I feel like the interview ended on a sour note... that they might
think that I may have communicated in prior interviews that I knew
more Python than I did. Their expectations of me didn't match up with
reality.
And I think that's what I feel: I feel like I, as a person, failed. By
attempting to utilize my strengths, and still not completing the
challenge in the very short amount of time allotted to me, I feel like
I am a failure as a person. I failed both the challenge and I am a
failure.
I know that's not true, but I still feel that way. And I can't seem to
shake the feeling.
What's true: I didn't have much time. The challenge (and the
interviewing team) was geared towards expecting a certain language. My
strengths didn't align with either the challenge or the team.