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"most interviews are just the interviewers going off a checklist of questions they think they need to ask because they are effectively in a cargo cult." Recrui
by ryguytilidie 9y ago
"most interviews are just the interviewers going off a checklist of questions they think they need to ask because they are effectively in a cargo cult."
Recruiter here. I interviewed with a company ~9 months ago and they asked me "how do you choose whether to hire for experience or pedigree". I gave a bunch of reasons why you might trade off one for the other and the interviewer made a bit of a sour face. He then asked me "is there another way to phrase what you're saying?" I said "Well, the way you make those tradeoffs depends on..." and he cut me off and said "thats what i was looking for". When I asked what he meant, he said that the answer on the sheet was "It depends" and he wanted me to literally say those words.
I didn't continue the process as I can't imagine the type of culture that gets people to that point of disengagement.
- lovich 9y agoUnfortunately its the kind of culture most companies seem to get. The few that don't have that culture, like early Facebook or google, can skyrocket from getting actual talent, but even those companies start to devolve into the scripts once they get large enough unless there is a concerted effort to avoid it. People are animals and animals are lazy so the path of least effort gets chosen the majority of the time, and that means going off of predetermined scripts.