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Job Interviews (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] paequ2@lemmy.today 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

surely you are not surprised that given a candidate that shows some interest, and a candidate that doesnโ€™t care, the company would prefer the former.

Definitely. That's why I lie.

if someone else is, then they will probably be easier to work with.

I actually really challenge this point. Specifically because I don't care, I would say I'm very easy to work with. Example: Did the manager just order us to do something really stupid? Sounds good to me! I'm on it, boss! On the other hand, I've worked with tons of people who care way too much. Sometimes it seems like they think it's their company. Those people are hard to work with.

The order doesn't even have to be stupid, it can just be something the passionate employee disagrees with. At a previous company, we were told to make some app work because we had an important demo coming up. One super passionate dude on my team almost derailed us because he insisted that we fix the app the "correct" way. In theory, he was correct, however in practice he was dead wrong.

I didn't care either way, so I just made the thing work.

I could say โ€œI noticed you use MQTT for networking the pots...

Yeah, this is the same game I play. I avoid answering their question of "Why FlowerPot.ly?" and just give some generic answer that applies to any company, not specifically FlowerPot.ly. I would also throw in some lies like, "My brother owns an IoT flower pot. I think it's so cool!".

[โ€“] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

surely you are not surprised that given a candidate that shows some interest, and a candidate that doesnโ€™t care, the company would prefer the former.

Definitely.

And there we go, we've answered your original question of

WTF are you talking about??? Are you a real human??

You get what he's taking about - it's not about the money.

[โ€“] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There are two issues with your entire argument.

  1. It is supremely stupid and a waste of everyone's time to ask a question that everyone knows the vast majority of people are going to parrot some variation of the same lie too.

  2. You're operating under some weird assumption that people get multiple job offers within a timeframe that can be considered competitive.

[โ€“] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

You are assuming the majority of people lie in interviews. That is a strategy, and one my parents actually recommended, but I dont think its the most effective.

[โ€“] dev_null@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago
  1. But they aren't "parroting the same lie". Asking why are you interested in this job is the most basic way to learn more about the candidate. "I just want any job and applied to all postings I saw" is never going to be true for anyone, because no you didn't, the same person doesn't apply to be a civil engineer for roadside construction, restaurant chef, and computer animator.

You have filtered the job postings in some way, presumably by your skill set, and so you have some criteria or reason you applied to this company and not another. And that reason is not a lie for most people. They applied to be a restaurant chef because they know how to cook and that's what they say, referring to their past experience.

  1. No, why do you think so? This has nothing to do with having multiple offers.