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It's not too hard to tell a story about how you wanted to do something great, as though you actually did it. It's like the pseudocode of programming.
by gohrt 12y ago
It's not too hard to tell a story about how you wanted to do something great, as though you actually did it. It's like the pseudocode of programming.
- nulltype 12y agoI think this is a good point, but an even more likely one is just claiming credit for someone else's accomplishment. People who are good at self aggrandizing have an advantage for these kinds of questions. If the interviewer follows up with all the team members who were actually there it wouldn't work, but I kind of doubt this happens a lot.
- collyw 12y agoYeah, but "I took on the undesirable task of fixing all the shitty excel cleaning because no one else was going to do it" isn't going to score you many points in a job interview.