Hi,
My question may be stupid, one of my friends have an interview in Finnish IT company. This is the first interview for my friend in Finland who has 5 years of experience.
What would be the ideal way to start telling about yourself? I think there should not be any special here compared to other countries but please share your experience if there is any.
Also, what are the other things that Finns love to hear in interview, ofcourse facts and to the point.
Thanks.
"Tell me about yourself in interview"
Re: "Tell me about yourself in interview"
I've interviewed with loads of Finnish companies. Honestly, no two interviews were the same, so it's very difficult to come up with silver bullet. However, there were things in common, mainly the classics:
- "Tell us about yourself": Who are you, professionally? Summarize your work experience. Summarize your education. Tell something interesting about yourself. Mention a hobby.
- "Why are you interviewing with us today?": Tell about how you want to advance your career, how this company is right for you, and you're right for this company.
- "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?": Hopefully, you'll be with them, having more responsibilities continuing to grow with them.
- "What is something you're proud of?": Say that you can't pick one thing, and tell two things. One on a professional level (big project done well, some very difficult task you did, etc.) and on a personal level (sport achievement, some complicated thing within your hobby, etc.)
- "Why should we choose you?": Tell them what you'll bring to their company and how you'll help them solve their problems. Don't just say "I have x years of experience blah blah"
If you're being interviewed with a Finn, there probably will be moments of silence. Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT let the silence make you feel uncomfortable enough to full it with !"#¤%. It happened to me in an interview, I just started talking nonsense for almost a minute.
Each IT company thinks of itself as the special snowflake awesome place they are. What does that mean? They WILL surprise you with something in the interview. Be it some out-of-the-ordinary question, some test, some puzzle, or just something else.
Get ready to answer questions that don't make sense by imagining you're talking to a stupid customer who will pay you a lot of money. Use their nonsense logic to answer them.
Just be nice, smile when it's appropriate, firm handshake, eye contact (but too much. Finns get weird if you look in their eyes for too long), and make them think you're confident. Umm.. yeah, that's pretty much it.
- "Tell us about yourself": Who are you, professionally? Summarize your work experience. Summarize your education. Tell something interesting about yourself. Mention a hobby.
- "Why are you interviewing with us today?": Tell about how you want to advance your career, how this company is right for you, and you're right for this company.
- "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?": Hopefully, you'll be with them, having more responsibilities continuing to grow with them.
- "What is something you're proud of?": Say that you can't pick one thing, and tell two things. One on a professional level (big project done well, some very difficult task you did, etc.) and on a personal level (sport achievement, some complicated thing within your hobby, etc.)
- "Why should we choose you?": Tell them what you'll bring to their company and how you'll help them solve their problems. Don't just say "I have x years of experience blah blah"
If you're being interviewed with a Finn, there probably will be moments of silence. Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT let the silence make you feel uncomfortable enough to full it with !"#¤%. It happened to me in an interview, I just started talking nonsense for almost a minute.
Each IT company thinks of itself as the special snowflake awesome place they are. What does that mean? They WILL surprise you with something in the interview. Be it some out-of-the-ordinary question, some test, some puzzle, or just something else.
Get ready to answer questions that don't make sense by imagining you're talking to a stupid customer who will pay you a lot of money. Use their nonsense logic to answer them.
Just be nice, smile when it's appropriate, firm handshake, eye contact (but too much. Finns get weird if you look in their eyes for too long), and make them think you're confident. Umm.. yeah, that's pretty much it.
Every case is unique. You can't measure the result of your application based on arbitrary anecdotes online.
Re: "Tell me about yourself in interview"
Adnan, thanks so much for sharing your experience. It will help a lot 
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Corporate tax is usually a non issue for small start-ups. You need to be making a profit in order to pay corporate tax. Start-ups should rather use the money to grow the company (= at least enough expenses to not make a profit). If you can't avoid making a profit, then paying over 3k should hardly be a problem.roger_roger wrote: This happens in lots of start-ups scenarios here... specially IT... they want candidates with 5+ years of experience and with this and that knowledge, but when it comes to salary even for 3k per month they say its too much for them. This is partly due to government taxation system to blame, Employers have to pay extra insurance, pension, etc on your behalf PLUS corporate tax hits them hard specially small start-ups.
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I was under the impressions that salaries over 3k in the specialized IT field are very common and are kind of the standard here.
Every case is unique. You can't measure the result of your application based on arbitrary anecdotes online.
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Re: "Tell me about yourself in interview"
specialized IT != startupadnan wrote:I was under the impressions that salaries over 3k in the specialized IT field are very common and are kind of the standard here.
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Okay, so what will be the right number to ask as a pay for one who has 4 years of experience in IT.
Area: Development and Testing
Ofcourse, we should not ask for it but if they keep insisting to get a number, then what would be the right one for a company which is in service for over 2 decades and have over 300 customers?
Area: Development and Testing
Ofcourse, we should not ask for it but if they keep insisting to get a number, then what would be the right one for a company which is in service for over 2 decades and have over 300 customers?