Feedback on Interviews Lasting Over 2 Hours

[dposborne]

In the first few minutes the director asked about my previous jobs which I discussed for 2-3 minutes, then he asked questions related to the position I applied for and this Q&A lasted for about 15 minutes. The next one hour and 45 minutes were more deep dive questions of 5 projects he started to implement in Finance and still not yet accomplished, and I gave my feedback on how to go about those projects from what I have worked on, and what I have seen done in other companies that I worked for.

Although your answers to the questions about the problems he is having may have been short and lacking substance, you probably shouldn't have gone too in depth about what your solutions would have been to the issues he was having. You basically gave him a reason not to hire you since he can now simply try what you suggested without hiring you at all... I would have just told him that you have experience with the things he was mentioning and suggested that you have a few things to try after he hired you...