Weird Zoom Encounters

[Guest]

Alrighty, the interview season is winding down. Let's hear the weirdest experiences people have had. 

Attending gaffes, resident slips, PA/NP input, neurologist interviews, it's all fair game. Good luck to all this cycle!

[Guest]

This has the potential to be the greatest thread on neurosurgery hub

[Guest]

Definitely the 4+ people all interviewing you at once during a 15 minute time block, and either one of them completely running the conversation or all of them trying to get a word in edgewise and thus preventing any real connections

More positively, seeing people's pets was kind of fun

[Guest]

15 minute "interview" with a neurologist who didn't realize her zoom screen was frozen and read from a script robotically describing the nsgy program.
Time ran out without me uttering a single sentence.

[Guest]

I was told to read the whole website before every interview and never to ask a question that can be answered online, but a lot of program presentations that are part of the interview have covered a bunch of details easily available there

[Guest]

attendings talking about the person they just interviewed off mute > watching gamestop rising

[Guest]

(01-31-2021, 11:48 PM)Guest Wrote: attendings talking about the person they just interviewed off mute > watching gamestop rising

"I just don't get the sense that he would work well with people" – group of attendings at a tippy top institution talking about the last applicant just as I roll in lol woof

[Guest]

(01-31-2021, 11:48 PM)Guest Wrote: attendings talking about the person they just interviewed off mute > watching gamestop rising

totally happened to me too. "well his board scores are high...  *looks up* oh shoot the next applicant is here, she's in the zoom everyone"

[Guest]

can totally relate