Interview Reflection

I had my interview with Naruto Kyubii, a CAM engineer at Ongoing Waves. I feel the interview went very smoothly, we met up at a bubble tea place we usually hang out and since I was interviewing somebody I know, it took a lot of tension off and made the questions easier to ask.

 I feel what worked about this interview as stated before was the fact that we both know each other it helped allow conversation to just flow out continuously without halt allowing the interview to feel more natural than forced out. Notes were very easy to write because since I know he is a very patient person he would be willing to let me finish completely without messing up

The only thing I can say didn't work is that since we did know each other we may of not taken it seriously enough? Like I know its school project but we want to feel it’s more important than that to further prepare us for the future and maybe that's something we should of corrected.

I’ve come to realize that in his organization the position is how easy or difficult communication can be. It seems people in the brains of the operations communicate very well together as well as for the managers and all, but the operators who just make sure it gets made correctly by the machines don’t fully understand the engineers point of view making it a bit harder to naturally communicate without thorough explanation.

It seems the genres read are a lot of emails, work orders, customer service orders and engineer handovers. This was not a shock to me considering he works on a computer 90% of the time he would deal with a lot of online based communication.

I did find some connections with our reading in our interview. One thing I think we both had with applying to chapter 3 in “guidelines adapting to any business culture” was we to “Practice patience and maintain a sense of humor.” We were both very patient with each other with giving each other our questions and responses. Some answers that I would find quite short I would joke at him and say “that's it, I thought engineers had more elaborate answers like their work.” We would laugh talk respond but we both maintained a mutual respect in the interview which is why it probably went so well.

To wrap things up I feel that the interview as a success, I learned that a lot more goes on in endless pools than I thought there was. I feel like this place would be a great place to work for, I always liked this kind of work and being able to work with someone that I personally know would be icing on the cake.