Nah my G, Its not industry standard but moreso case by case. All my helpdesk interviews have been 1 on 1.
When I 1st pulled up to the Hewlett Packard facility, I had ideas about the interview thinking it was going to be a panel of people. Why wouldnt I? I had to walk through two three turnstiles and be escorted and buzzed in before making it to the front desk lol.
Once I got in though, it was smooth sailing. Ended up having a 1 on 1 interview with this laid back but eccentric type dude who asked me 2 technical questions related to troubleshooting and then the last question was
"How many Balloons can fit in this room"
Other than that the interview was maybe 10 minutes or shorter but it was
I've had panel interviews in the past for warehouse jobs but the worst experience was for a mutherfukking janitor job 10 years ago; not 1, not 3, not 5 but nine fukking people staring across a oakwood table that looked like they stole that shyt from the hall of Valhalla. They deadass poker-facing me across this big ass God-table with and hit me with a brarrage of the typical "Give an example a time when...." type of questions. Usually theres about 5 of those type of questions max, but these muthafukkas had at least 12..
Mid- ways through the interview im like.
and I just cut one of the interviewers off and asked them straight up "What are your expectations for this job, what do you hope to gain from this interview and what is the salary range"
I could see the wave of
moving through each interviewer on the panel but I was in
mode and didnt give a fukk. . One of the interviewers responded " The starting salary is 9.43 an hour"
like she thought this was gonna impress me or that it was the most money I have ever been offered.
Before I even realized what I was doing I reflexively shot up from the table voiced my disappointment in them wasting my time and thinking it ok to put people through all that for a janitor position. and bounced . I
fast foraward, 5 months later, they called me with a job offer. I just
and hung up.
Completely irrelevant to your question I know, but I had to get that one off lol.