> I find this is hard to guage in interviews. Generically, yes. The types of crazy this resume signals? It's usually very obvious, very quickly. > Also, if th

> I find this is hard to guage in interviews. Generically, yes. The types of crazy this resume signals? It's usually very obvious, very quickly. > Also, if they are making stuff up, it's hard to know which parts of their background are legit, which matters. No, it's really not. If it's hard to tell, they're the wrong type of "quirky." On an interview like this, my expectation is that I'd have an idea of what the resume was commenting on within maybe 5 minutes, and have them figured out within 10 minutes. Either at that point: - I understand in greater depth what their resume was a commentary on, have a better idea of their thoughts about hiring process, and know a lot more about them and how they think about these things. - Have them try keep the joke going, or make continued inappropriate comments, or otherwise have some serious red flags. Something in the middle is probably an interesting conversation, but a no-hire. If they can't communicate clearly, that's a yellow flag. In combination with a resume like this one, that's enough of a yellow flag that it's a no hire. With a resume like this one, they'd damn well better have a good game plan going in. Good rule-of-thumb: I'm very glad to go out on a limb to interview someone with a nontraditional background. The cost is a day. I'm absolutely not willing to go out on a limb to do a high-risk hire. A bad hire costs a lot. A resume like this one signals someone is exceptional, and the goal of the interview is what kind of exception.