[matham]

The fact that PE guy spent time looking up the son means he already had a vibe something was off about "Joe".

So while I agree that if you lie about small things I'd think you'd also lie about large things - I'm not sure it'd be backed by data, like much of pop-psychology. So I think the lesson here is to listen to your gut for red flags rather than evaluate someone based on some list of features.

[Scubabear68]

This is exactly right. There were clues he was “off”. I do still think the list from TFA was a good starting point, but I agree it is largely about your gut (and where experience can really help). I have had the same on interviews with some very senior people, emphasis seemed to be off and there were small inconsistencies in answers that lead to alarm bells in my head.

Had one guy interview who was supposedly a Google Cloud expert who rang every alarm in my head (I was a no), and he was let go in two weeks for his…shall we say fondness for elaborately untrue stories and total lack of knowledge about GCP in practice.