Mike Simpson is the co-founder of The Interview Guys, the career-advice site he launched in February 2013 to help job seekers actually land the roles they want. Over the last 13 years, the site has reached more than 100 million job seekers worldwide, and Mike's particular focus is interview preparation: how candidates can actually answer the questions hiring managers really care about.
He holds a Business degree from Bishop's University (HR major, Economics minor) and is an active member of the Professional Association of Résumé Writers & Career Coaches (PARWCC) and the National Career Development Association (NCDA). His advice has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and CNBC, and is referenced by career-services teams at the University of Michigan, Penn State, Northeastern, the University of Toronto, McGill, Wellesley College, and Kansas State, among others.
Articles credited to Mike on The Interview Guys are reviewed and edited by him personally to make sure the frameworks, examples, and recommendations match what actually works in real interviews.
If you’re eyeing a job at Shoney’s, here’s some good news right up front: this is one of the friendlier interviews you’ll ever sit through. The chain hires for attitude and dependability more than experience, so even a first-time server or dishwasher has a real shot. Most front-of-house roles at Shoney’s need little or no…
Hilton sends you a link, and suddenly you’re talking to your own webcam with no human on the other end. That’s the HireVue one-way interview, and it feels strange because it is strange. You record your answers on your own schedule, the platform saves them, and a recruiter (plus HireVue’s AI) reviews them later. Here’s…
Interviewing for a City Manager job is unlike almost any other executive interview you’ll sit through. You’re not being grilled by a hiring manager or an HR panel. You’re being evaluated by a city council made up of elected officials, sometimes with community stakeholders in the room, who have to trust an unelected executive to…
Airbnb doesn’t interview like most tech companies. Yes, you’ll still get technical rounds and take-home style assessments, but the thing that trips people up is the culture bar. Interviewers here are trained to probe how well you live the company’s four values, not just whether you can solve a problem on a whiteboard. That’s why…
Delta’s first real gate isn’t a person. It’s a camera. After you apply (and for flight attendant roles, after you clear the Fitme assessment), you get invited to record answers on HireVue with no live interviewer on the other end. That setup rattles people. You’re talking to a lens in your own living room, a…
Sitting across from a site supervisor who’s run machines for thirty years is a different kind of interview. He’s not impressed by buzzwords, and he can smell a padded resume from across the trailer. Here’s the thing about heavy equipment operator interviews: they’re really testing two things. Can you run the machine, and can you…
Greystar isn’t just another property management company you apply to on a whim. Founded in 1993, it now operates in 250 markets and manages more than $315 billion in real estate assets, so whether you’re going for a leasing job or a corporate analyst seat, you’re stepping into a big machine with a very specific…
JPMorgan Chase’s HireVue is a one-way, recorded video interview. There’s no human on the other end while you record, just a camera, a timer, and 3 to 5 questions pulled from a huge rotating pool. If you’re on an entry-level or analyst track, a Pymetrics game-based assessment usually comes first. Here’s why it rattles people….
Take-Two Interactive is one of the biggest names in games, and it’s not really one company. It’s a parent company sitting over Rockstar Games, 2K, Zynga, and Private Division, and each label runs its own culture and hiring bar. That structure matters more than most candidates realize. The interview you get for a corporate Take-Two…
Unilever doesn’t start with a human. Before any recruiter sees your face, you’ll face a game-based assessment and then a one-way HireVue video interview scored by AI. It feels cold, and that throws people off. Here’s the reality. The games come right after your CV-free application, and if you pass them you unlock a pre-recorded…
