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Depends on the job and the question. I had a candidate that didn't believe they were allowed to make decisions, just carry out edicts of "the leaders" even if
by grogenaut 3y ago
Depends on the job and the question.
I had a candidate that didn't believe they were allowed to make decisions, just carry out edicts of "the leaders" even if terrible idea. They didn't believe they should ask questions to clarify or help structure the request. This person has worked at a higherarchial bank then a rule by fiat game studio.
There's no way I could have used this person at our company. Didn't matter their tech chops. They would have been a disaster. In this case behavioral would have caught them.
Instead I asked a tech question which they failed hard and started blaming the recruiter on for not knowing this was a tech position. I tried pivoting to behavioral and it went downhill from there.
I had to try and save the interview by talking about games war stories for 45 minutes taking us over by 30 minutes. It was not great.
But if I had caught it with behavioral I would still had to ask the tech question for fairness. So I'm not sure what would have helped.