When I go to a job interview, I *know* when I've done well. Unfortunately, I didn't quite get that feeling today.

The process was draining...2 hours to discuss 7 questions among 6 interviewees and 2 interviewers. The interviewers really put us as ease, and these are the questions they asked:

1. What is your most current experience with the field of technical writing?

2. What do you like to do outside of work?

3. What recent accomplishment are you most proud (work-wise)?

4. Tell me how you would ... (everyone got a different question. They wanted us to describe a procedure. I have done that as an interviewer. Mine is usually: "Give a set of instructions for making toast.") Mine ended up being making a cup of coffee. The kicker? I don't drink coffee and have never used a coffee machine.

5. Describe the perfect system. (It could be any kind of system.)

6. Pretend you are interviewing a SME (subject matter expert) about the company. What is the one question you would ask? (Everyone got a different area. I was to ask something corporate.) 

7. Why do you want to work for this company?

Even though I felt like I didn't give a lot of perfect answers...I know I rocked #6 :-) Their jaws dropped, and then they told me that was a great question. Looking back, I would have changed it a little. Anyway, my question was "where does the company see itself in 1, 5, and 10 years, and how does it plan to achieve its goals?" I think 1, 3, and 5 years would have been better.

As for the other candidates...one was a mumbler (she was currently at a company I recently applied at), one didn't seem to have experienced much of the tech writing culture, one (older) woman wore knee high boots and an above-the-knee length denim skirt that had a slit up to her ass and who rambled on, one really cool chick, and one really cool chick who gave lots of great answers to the questions. I'm thinking she will get to round 2, but I hope I will too.

At this point, I'm expecting the worst but hoping for the best. I also got bored during the interview. It did give me a bit of motivation to do some work at work. I've been doing nothing but surfing the 'net. I am ready to do some documentation again.