Today I am going to share my some of experiences that I had at some interviews.
Interviews are sometimes a better source of information, which reveals a number of things about company that you may not be knowing. Last month I went to a company for interview who were about to start an SEO department and they wish to recruit me for the post of project manager. Once I explained briefly about my profile and experiences they were comfortable with that by nodding their heads. The fun started when interviewer was looking here and there in my resume for finding what to ask this guy? I relaxed for around 10 minutes and was wondering if these people themselves do not know much about SEO, then how they are going to interview me in true sense? Then later on these people gave me a bunch of papers and asked me to complete it within 10 minutes. This was objective test paper but half of them were of contradictory and outdated seo things that had nothing to do with current working factors. I finished the paper work in 6-7 minutes and finally moved out. The company claims itself to be one of the specialist in seo and also provides seo training…pity for all those people joining there.
Like this problem starts when companies themselves do not have much knowledge and no clear vision on what they want to do. Some of them like to spend time in discussing theoretical definitions, other stuff but asks nothing about practical achievements for projects. One company was pretty much interested in knowing what page rank was achieved at the end of project rather than looking at what client achieved with this project. Whatever things happened, its fine as it gave me an idea about the company’s reality.
Another eye opener incident happened last week where the interviewer themselves didn’t know about basic things in SEO. They asked me what do you know about root file, actually they wanted to know about robots.txt 
So next time when you are are going for interview, listen to their questions and understand their plus and minus which will help you in making better decisions to move ahead with them or not?