Had one of the strangest interview experiences for an OMS support related role.
The role itself was focused on operational reliability and troubleshooting trading systems, but the interview was done on a free Zoom account and the call literally got cut off at the 45 minute limit in the middle of the conversation. We had to reconnect and continue after that, which honestly threw the whole flow off.
The interviewer was also multitasking through most of the interview. There were multiple times where I got interrupted mid answer because she needed to work on something else, and most of the time she was barely looking at the screen. At certain points I genuinely could not tell if she was still listening.
What confused me the most was the feedback afterward. I even asked her directly near the end of the interview if there was anything about my background that gave her hesitation or if she felt I wasn’t a fit for the role. She said not really and told me I seemed “pretty good” so far, so I walked away thinking the conversation had gone reasonably well.
Then later my headhunter told me the feedback was that my answers were “too vague” and that I seemed like I was looking at notes, which honestly felt contradictory to how the conversation ended.
Maybe I could have structured some answers better, that is fair. But it still felt strange hearing that after an interview where the conversation itself kept getting interrupted and fragmented.
I think there is a difference between someone sounding perfectly polished in an interview and someone actually understanding how to troubleshoot live operational issues under pressure. Those are related skills, but not exactly the same thing.