keyboardbarista

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by keyboardbarista 7y ago
You definitely should NOT do this. As the interviewee, dodging a question with a fake trite answer because you think it's dumb is a great way to signal that you're abnormally uncooperative and/or bad at communicating. And thi
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by keyboardbarista 7y ago
> That is a carefully rehearsed answer making the weakness look fixable instead of being serious weakness. First, there's absolutely nothing wrong with rehearsing your answers to common questions like this. If anything it allows y
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by keyboardbarista 7y ago
I think it's confirmation bias. If you lack confidence but consider yourself nice and caring, then you'll be more on the look out for instances of women saying that's what they want. It's more comforting to hear that, be
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by keyboardbarista 7y ago
The stereotypical rehearsed answer is the Michael Scott one, where you dodge the question by actually naming a strength and pretending it's a weakness. In my experience working at places full of smart, talented, ambitious people lookin
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by keyboardbarista 7y ago
Ignore barry-cotter. People do expect you to be honest. It's not a trick question, and there is no clandestine cabal of hiring managers who only want to hire people who play a secret interview game well. > It is actually a bit simi
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by keyboardbarista 7y ago
In my experience they don't. They want to know if you're a reasonable, self-aware person who can communicate effectively. Let's say you name a reasonable weakness that can easily be improved upon and that doesn't spell d
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by keyboardbarista 7y ago
There's so much cynicism from a subset of the HN crowd every time something interview-related like this is posted. Some of that cynicism is warranted, sure, but not in this case. I'll keep it real: These aren't trick question