Hi everyone. This is a situation I’ve never really encountered before, but I am a .NET Developer with 10 years of experience currently living and working in NYC for a large bank. During my two years here layoffs have ramped up, and I’m looking for a way out. I started looking around the fall of last year. Long story short is that I interviewed for a small financial firm back in October. Very easy interview process overall, and they didn’t ask too hard of technical questions. I interviewed with 3 engineers on site, however there was a PM who was not in the day that I went to interview, so we did a quick interview over zoom. Overall it was very laid back. I can tell he just thought it was a formality, and quite honestly it felt like he didn’t want to be there at all. He ended the interview saying I would need to do just one more and then that was it.

However they ghosted me after this. I reached out to the recruiter, and did not get a response. I was convinced I did something wrong in the interview, and I noticed that the posting was taken down off LinkedIn, and their website. Come the new year the same position is posted again. I held off on applying because I was convinced they wouldn’t bother talking to me, but now that we’re in April and the position is still open I decided to anyway just out of sheer curiosity. To my surprise they reached out for an initial phone screen which is happening tomorrow with the same recruiter.

So my question is how do I handle this? Would they even know that I interviewed before? What do I say if they don’t remember me at all? They were apparently looking for someone for over a year when I last interviewed. Any guidance that anyone could offer would be appreciated. I’ve never been in this situation before .