[eligottlieb]

>In other words, you will do what 99% of all applicants will do, even the ones that didn't really want the job in the first place: you'll tell the interviewer what you think they want to hear.

Well no, I tend to do the Luciferian thing: tell the complete truth and let them hear what they please.

This has, in its time, lost me a couple of opportunities because they didn't want someone who was aiming for research rather than aiming for their position. Of course, those opportunities were in entry-level software engineering positions.