The Joy of Phone Interviews

I am applying for an internship at Amazon over the summer, and I had scheduled two phone interviews with them a few weeks ago. The first interview went very smoothly, but there was some confusion over which number they could contact me at. I had arranged to use someone's office for my interview, so that I would have a quiet place without distractions. I had provided Amazon with the office phone number, but on the day of the interview I checked the email they had sent me and I realized that they were planning to contact me on my cell phone. Everything went smoothly in the end, however, because I contacted someone at Amazon about an hour before the interview, and was able to change the number.

The next day, when I had my second interview scheduled, it snowed very hard and the buses to SFU had stopped running, which meant that I wasn't able to get to the office to take the interview. I tried to call my contact at Amazon to change the number again, but unfortunately he wasn't answering. What I had to do was contact one of the coop coordinators at SFU, have them intercept the phone call in the office, and provide the interviewer with my home phone number. The interviewer was about 10 minutes late contacting me, so I was very nervous that something had gone wrong, but once he did finally reach me the interview went very smoothly.

I sincerely hope I don't have to do too many more phone interviews.