

– there are still sometimes clues to help you figure out if it didn’t go well: Regardless of the reason an interview is short – fit, scheduling, etc. Did the interviewer say anything about scheduling a next visit?.Was your availability to start the job discussed?.Did the conversation flow well and feel relaxed?.Did the interviewer seem to respond warmly to your answers?.Did you feel a sincere connection with the interviewer?.


Then again … sometimes a short interview is simply because we know right away, for any number of reasons, that it’s a bad match. So short interviews aren’t necessarily a bad thing. You can tell a lot in about 30 minutes, even if you need more than that to make a final decision. So we might give even the best candidates a short interview. While short interviews aren’t the best of signs, from personal experience I know that sometimes, especially in the first round of interviews, we had to schedule it tightly to accommodate schedules.
