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I suspect many interviewers reward using a question as an opportunity to showcase knowledge though, even if it means rewarding that kind of expansive verbosity.
by MaxBarraclough 4y ago
I suspect many interviewers reward using a question as an opportunity to
showcase knowledge though, even if it means rewarding that kind of expansive
verbosity. I suspect the this and also that you allude to is the candidate
not wanting to be called out for failing to mention a corner case or
tradeoff.
Of course, conversations are rarely
legalistically constrained to answering only the precise letter of a question
asked; it's a matter of degree.
Forgive a painful mixing of metaphors: if the Workplace StackExchange is
anything to go by, one interviewer's flying colours are often another
interviewer's red flags.
- ghaff 4y agoI'll add that, as an interviewer (whether of candidates or doing qualitative research), a pattern of very clipped responses to questions about experiences of various sorts soon makes me feel that I, as an interviewer, have suddenly become responsible for filling airtime. It should be a conversation even if that can involve sometimes going off on tangents.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y ago> if the Workplace StackExchange is anything to go by, one interviewer's flying colours are often another interviewer's red flags. This is absolutely true. In /r/RecruitingHell, I recently saw a job seeker saying a hiring manager dropped them after they tried to connect on LinkedIn during the interview loop. Meanwhile, another HM in another loop praised them for it.