How I overslept for a Netflix Product Manager job interview…

Don’t worry if you messed up a job interview! I’ve once overslept for a late afternoon interview call with Netflix! You won’t do worse than me :) Let me tell you the full story:

It was at the beginning of the year, a few weeks after I was laid off from Microsoft. I was still on garden leave and started to look for a new position. As the recruitment processes take forever, so did my days stretch, became a tad lazy and I enjoyed the in-between period to regenerate.

I had a few processes open, but the Netflix one was the one I found most intriguing. It was a Product position for some internal tool. So on the one hand this would get me closer to the movie industry and my stakeholders would be the people creating the shows. On the other hand, internal tools can be boring to develop, and generally, I find most passion in larger B2C offers.

Still, it was Netflix and I was going to give it my best!

Or so I planned…

I was excited for the interview for the whole week, but on the day it was supposed to happen, I got off on the wrong foot. My head hurt, I couldn’t focus and generally felt under the weather. My energy and good humor didn’t return until I took a nap late in the afternoon…