Tomorrow afternoon will be my first ever job interview landed without JobMine. I'm very unsure of what to expect, because I've been told that the interview will last around two hours. Contrast this to most of the UW co-op interviews I've had scheduled for at most 30 minutes.

Yushi brought up the point that it might have a large technical component. So I'm really unsure of how it's going to go in that light. Most of the job interviews I've gone through during my career at UW have been heavily classic profile-based. (Eg, what are your strengths/weaknesses, etc)

The most technical interview I've had was for Texas Instruments (I was asked to analyze a piece of C++ code), but even then, it was only a portion of a 30 minute interview, which then incorporated a large amount of typical classical questions.

Otherwise, I've found that once I hit my third and fourth work terms, my resume typically carried me through interviews almost exclusively on its own. The employer would often look through my resume, and then ask me questions about my experience at the various places I've worked.

But I'm almost thinking now that interviews you get through UW's co-op program might be fairly different from outside interviews because the employer coming into to hire UW co-op students will already know that they are for sure full-time undergraduate students enrolled in a good amount of solid engineering courses.

But right now? The employer doesn't know for sure I am who I say I am. My work history on my resume is not validated by an official transcript anymore (well, it is validated by my UW transcript of course, but it's not something they would necessarily recognize). So, I might expect a higher degree of scrutiny than what I might experience back home.

But this is all just speculation. I guess I can't do anything else but wait and see tomorrow.

Better head off to bed now so I'm not half asleep for the interview