Did I mess this interview up?

So title says it all. Some background… I have been in radio/streaming/podcast advertising for about 5 years now. Started at iHeart Radio as a sales assistant, made a jump into content acquisitions at Audible, and I’ve been at SiriusXm media as an account managerfor over a year and a half.

Netflix recently started their Ad tier platform ( I’m sure some of you realized your subscriptions increasing lol) back in November. I had been following postings because a career goal of mine has been to jump into streaming TV and from what I’ve read about working there, it’s extremely competitive but the people are awesome and I work the best in that type of environment. I love being the best at what I do, and love watching my colleagues succeed and mentoring younger women in media!

Back in August I finally reached out via linkdin to the director of the team and sent a very casual yet direct message saying

“Hello Xxxxx,

I wanted to reach out and say congratulations on your new role! I have been relentlessly waiting (checking every single day lol) for your team to start hiring for Account Managers. So, because I am impatient, I wanted to reach out directly.

A little bit about me 😊 My name is XXXXXX and I have been in the Ads biz for around 6 years now! Starting at iHeart Radio, then moving to Audible, and eventually landing at SXM Media. I currently manage Ad Campaigns for some of our biggest spenders such as Capital One, Peloton, and Carvana across many different verticals such as Streaming, Podcast show level, and Programmatic. I am a 3rd party tag expert, name one and I’ve implemented it, but most importantly I genuinely care about the success of my sellers, peers, and company.

Working at Netflix is my next career goal. I know that is blunt haha, but I have read every article since November about how well the platform is performing and I want to be apart of it.

When roles do arise, I hope you keep me in mind. Nonetheless, congratulations and I wish you nothing but success in your new position!

Best, XXXXX

Measure MORE, not LESS ( saw that in a Horizon Media Buyers signature the other day…cant say I disagree!)”

HE IMMEDIATELY RESPONDED …

Hi XXXXX, you have good timing, we are just starting the process of hiring account managers. Send me your resume to xxxxxxx@netflix.com and I’ll connect you with recruiting. Thanks for the thoughtful note and have a nice weekend! “

To say I was proud of myself in that moment would be an understatement.

Met with the recruiter, they didn’t even have a job description yet so I basically told him everything I do in which he didn’t know much about bc he’s HR…didn’t hear back so I followed up about a 3 weeks later when I saw they posted for the position on LinkedIn…cc’d the director passing along some recent Q4 success I had ( I optimized 500k worth of new biz on one of our biggest spenders which started as a happy accident but that literally never happens for account managers or even senior Ams…but said it more humbling via email) ( who emailed me after and said if you don’t hear back please Follow up again and let me know) and he said they were just wrapping up hiring the Sr.Team manager and Manager and asked me for my availability for this week( aka today) for an interview with the new manager.

I prepared with Netflix core values and aligned them with examples I had ..etc etc.

When it came to the interview… the manager seemed extremely overwhelmed and unengaged. She has zero candor. It was just back to back “ tell me about a time when” questions. My answers were definitely advanced because in my role now yes I’m an account manager and do the normal pre and post sale stuff but this year I’ve been brought on to a ton of higher profile strategic work bc of my capital one win.

The only response that made me feel like I wasnt speaking a different language was about systems. We both used the same planning system and I obviously said “ salesforce, tableau” and she didn’t respond so I was like what systems other than those would you guys be using.

SHE DEADA$$ SAID MICROSOFT OFFICE AND GOOGLE WORK

I nicely said oh yes I use those too.

She said “ any questions I DO have a hard stop in 4 minutes”

So I said “ you know it’s pretty awesome to be starting from the ground up building the advertising division out!” “ what is your overall goal for building out this the team” she’s like “yes exciting BUT a lot.:.but to answer your question ….my goal is to build out a fully functional client services unit”

…like no SH*T I felt like I tee balled her something super easy and something that would encourage me to want to work there lmao.

Anyway I left feeling shitty about it, idk if I bombed it, that I have more experience than her, if she was just checking off boxes bc I was referred by her bosses boss and she knows I’m Getting it anyway?

If I don’t get it, do I give the recruiter feedback ? Like that was the worst interviewer I’ve ever had and that I expected more from Netflix?

Idk help.