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I once was going to work for a friend's startup but we didn't see eye to eye on everything and decided to not work together. As a joke I said I would go work fo

I once was going to work for a friend's startup but we didn't see eye to eye on everything and decided to not work together. As a joke I said I would go work for the competition which ended with a 2 hour interview in a town an hour away with the competition. They offered me a job doing backend work however I wanted to develop frontend so I didn't take that job either. What interested me is that in a 2 hour interview I learned everything about my friend's competition's business model and future plans. I've never done it since but if someone wanted to know what another company is doing apply and ask a bunch of questions during the interview. Asking too many question during an interview isn't a thing.

c618b9b695c4 5y ago
>Asking too many question during an interview isn't a thing. Not so sure about that. I recently interviewed where I asked something along the lines of, "So what would my daily responsibilities look like?" They refused to tell me what I would be doing day-to-day. No specifics on technologies, platforms, would I be helping internal/external groups, etc. Could not even get them to elaborate on specifics in the job posting itself.
- 1024core 5y ago
  I have a buddy who interviewed at a company in the Valley back in around 1998. They also refused to tell him what his daily responsibilities would be like. He said to himself, "I'm not going to waste my time parsing f'in Apache log files!", and turned them down. That company? Google. He would've been employee # < 100, and comfortably retired in 10 years.
lioeters 5y ago
Hmm, an intriguing business idea: "undercover interview at your competition" as a service.
- SirSourdough 5y ago
  Now we're coming full-circle back to the start-up posted on HN the other day that was going to send "expert" applicants in to evangelize specific products and technologies in interviews.

c618b9b695c4 5y ago

>Asking too many question during an interview isn't a thing. Not so sure about that. I recently interviewed where I asked something along the lines of, "So what would my daily responsibilities look like?" They refused to tell me what I would be doing day-to-day. No specifics on technologies, platforms, would I be helping internal/external groups, etc. Could not even get them to elaborate on specifics in the job posting itself.

1024core 5y ago
I have a buddy who interviewed at a company in the Valley back in around 1998. They also refused to tell him what his daily responsibilities would be like. He said to himself, "I'm not going to waste my time parsing f'in Apache log files!", and turned them down. That company? Google. He would've been employee # < 100, and comfortably retired in 10 years.

lioeters 5y ago

Hmm, an intriguing business idea: "undercover interview at your competition" as a service.

SirSourdough 5y ago
Now we're coming full-circle back to the start-up posted on HN the other day that was going to send "expert" applicants in to evangelize specific products and technologies in interviews.