Everybody welcome to next video.
So if you've made it this far you have gotten an offer to go on site for the company that you are applying
for.
Which is great but you're on the last homestretch.
So the important bit now is to start prepping for the onside as much as possible so you don't have as
much to worry about once you get there and you can go to the process a little easier.
So what is the onsite in normal cases.
This could be on the East Coast or in different parts of the country.
A somebody brings you into the under the office and they have their interview face to face.
And if you're local to the area normally this happens a little quicker.
But if you're not local to the area inviting on site includes a lot of travel and different things like
that but in the Valley and Silicon Valley you're going to end up with an all day set of interviews that
are back to back about 40 minutes each 45 minutes each depending on how many people they need to squeeze
in the interview.
So for you it's gonna be You're gonna get there probably between 9:00 10:00 to 11:00 and then you'll
be continuously going until probably three or four just entirely depends.
And normally it's individual or different interviewers each time sometimes it will be the people that
you talk to on the phone maybe the hiring manager is the one that comes and grabs you from the lobby
and walks you do your first interview and kind of has the first interview with you.
But keep in mind there there is reasonable breaks in between.
So in between the interviews up until lunchtime you're probably not going to have too many breaks it's
just going to be interviews after interviews but at lunchtime you're going to have either an interview
with the team or you just kind of talking with everybody it's more of a laid back but you're still being
interviewed.
So keep in mind of what you say.
So prepping for it.
Normally the recruiter will give you a list of the people that are going to interview you.
It's important that you look up these individuals and find out what they do at the company.
Again we've kind of already spoke to this a little bit but this is where it becomes really relevant
because if you don't you might find yourself running into a code exercise that you weren't expecting
or anything like that.
But again ask the recruiter if there's going to be any hands on exercises.
And even though the recruiter might not know that there will be sometimes or sometimes it's in the middle
of the interview the interviewer is like OK let's try this writing this on the board if that's the case
you have to be prepared for that.
So look up the individual's job description of what they do.
And you can make some general assumptions for like if it's an automation engineer you're probably going
to have code based questions if it's an infrastructure engineer it's probably infrastructure questions.
So just keep keep that kind of thing in the back your mind and just look them up on LinkedIn just in
case.
And what you're gonna want to do is build different questions around each interviewer so something necessarily
about them but they're gonna ask their question about the team make it a slightly different phrased
question than the exact same question you asked because the interviewers will talk to each other.
So you want to keep that in the back your head.
Now from the time of the H.R. recruiting interview all the way to the last technical interview that
you had before they offered you an on site visit they should have given you some feedback or you should
it could you should have asked for some feedback around the weak areas that you happen to be during
the interview and what I would do is brush up on any weak areas that you feel you need to brush up on
or that they recommended or the recruiter has recommended you brush up on and the recruiter will sometimes
give you topics on which each side of the interview will be.
We'll take that to heart and make sure you look a common interview questions for those type of topics
and get a better idea of what you could be asked.
And the single most important thing is get your travel in order.
You're the last thing you want to do is get to the airport and not have your not be up there on the
right day or the plane was early.
And make sure that everything's in order when the company if the company is paying for it chances are
they've already bought the plane ticket they've they've booked a hotel booked a rental car whatever
the case might be get the confirmation codes have them send it to you and then you reconfirm with with
your name your identity that these are indeed waiting for you on behalf of X company.
Make sure it's there.
Get there in time.
Make sure you get there well and more enough time because missing a plane is entirely different when
you're looking at an onsite interview because they spent the whole day they're going to be spent with
you and your team and you're taking up a lot of people's time throughout the day which is important
from an interview standpoint but also you don't want to waste that time either.