Sentence examples for interview gauntlet from inspiring English sources

First, forget the networking and interview gauntlet.

You may have run the interview gauntlet before then, for summer jobs for example, but the stakes--a career in science, or not--have probably never been so high.

All of which adds up to today's very weird situation: there's a desperate talent shortage across the industry, but at the same time, employers are so terrified by the prospect of ever hiring a subpar engineer that the recruiting process has become increasingly gruelling and time-consuming, even though there's little evidence that the standard interview gauntlet identifies good engineers.

Once you get past the resume and application process, then comes the actual interview itself, another gauntlet of disguised tripwires that must be navigated.

Larry Ellison, the chairman and chief executive of Oracle, threw down the gauntlet today in an interview with Forbes.com, pronouncing that by May 31 Oracle will have more business-to-business marketplaces up and running than anyone, including stock market darling Commerce One.

If candidates pass these first phases, Triplebyte will also fly potential hires out to West Coast and set them up with a gauntlet of in-person interviews with YC companies.

While these were minor words of war, he later would lay down the gauntlet even more during an interview with a New Zealand radio station.

He does a little arm pump and keeps saying "Yes!" Then he interviews that he's thrown down the gauntlet for the other designers but that winning the first challenge has also put a target on his back.

By the third interview, the plate of biscuits lands like a gauntlet on the table.

Then again, the man who suspended him, Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC News, threw down a gauntlet before the election in an interview with The New York Times: "Show me an example of us fund-raising".

French president François Hollande, appearing at only his third EU summit in Brussels after having thrown down the gauntlet to Angela Merkel this week in an interview with the Guardian and other European newspapers, flatly dismissed German demands for a new European "budgets tsar" who would be able to overrule national governments and parliaments on tax-and-spend policies in the eurozone.