I live in Central Texas (large city) and was contacted for an interview. The interviewer lives 4 hours away! He offered to meet me half way, but that is still a 2 hour drive. In my reply, I suggested a phone interview instead. Surprised an interviewer from my city didn’t contact me.
Is this reasonable? Any other suggestions? Thanks.
not reasonable. face to face interview is much better, and well worth the 2-hour driving.
@f2000sa The interviews aren’t worth that much, are they?
If the interviewer is willing to drive two hours to meed you I’d make the effort to meet him halfway. If it is not-doable Skype would probably be better than a phone interview so you can at least look at each other.
@HYPSPlease , if you applied a special program, such as LSM or something like, an alumni from that program will interview you. If that is case, do not expect a local alumni interview.
@HYPSPlease I think it is perfectly reasonable not to meet in person when there is this kid of distance between you. A face to face interview does not make that huge of a difference compared a Skype interview with the camera on. I think you should have probably suggested that instead of phone.
I’m signed up to be an interviewer and, while I don’t know what’s going on in the minds of the people making the decision, it clearly says we can do either a Skype or an in-person interview. This seems like a very reasonable scenario to make use of the Skype option, so it’s kind of strange to me that someone actually wants to drive 2 hours there and back.
It’s reasonable to do by phone or Skype. My daughter at Penn had her interview over the phone.
Thanks everyone! Phone interview scheduled for today.