I was invited to the first round of interview, and honestly, it was one of the worst experiences I’ve had in my 6 months of job hunting — out of 14 interviews! The interviewer started by introducing the role and the company, which was fine. Then he asked me to introduce myself, but halfway through, he cut me off and didn’t let me finish. Instead, he jumped straight into questions about my CV. The weirdest part? He said, “You have experience with LLMs, but what’s your experience in NLP?” 🤯 My CV clearly showed my NLP work, yet he said they were only looking for industrial experience — personal projects and even my LLM-related work didn’t count as NLP. It was honestly ridiculous. It felt like a complete waste of time!