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I agree with everything you said. It’s an answer. I’d file it under “ok, I guess” if I were to have gotten it from a candidate, and would have probably pushed o
by mynameisvlad 4y ago
I agree with everything you said. It’s an answer. I’d file it under “ok, I guess” if I were to have gotten it from a candidate, and would have probably pushed on it in the same way you illustrate in the last paragraph.
But it’s not an answer I’d ever write home about. It doesn’t really show the passion for the company. And by no means is it required, but if I’m looking at two relatively equal candidates, then passion is going to come into play.
I’m in the process of switching jobs and you better believe I had a whole passionate answer as to “why us?” and I’m positive part of the reason I got the new job is because I was able to articulate exactly how big of a deal that was to me.
At the end of the day, you do better work if you care about the company and the things they do, and I’m going to want to work with someone that loves the things we do more than someone that is only doing it for a paycheck.
- FabHK 4y agoAgreed. But note: many professional application coaches will suggest generic soul-less answers just like GPT-3. See for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET7Xus2tWuw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET7Xus2tWuw
- mynameisvlad 4y agoHonestly I couldn’t get through 10 seconds of that video. They stretched out what seems like 3 sentences worth of information into 7 minutes of content and EVEry SECOnd SYLLaBLE was shouted. It got grating incredibly fast. And honestly the three answers he gave were good in that they answered the question thoroughly, but they sounded so robotic. It sounded like it was following a script with a lot of fillers like “I made sure to research your company and…” etc, which makes sense since it basically is. Would I write home about any of those answers? Probably not. But I would also accept them, take a few notes, and move on so it accomplishes the task.