[hampelm]

> As far as I can tell, the “behavioral interview” is essentially the same as a Scientology intake session except, you know, for capitalism instead. You have to answer the same 8 questions at every interview around “so what would you do if you had a conflict at work?” where the interviewer treats you like a 5 year old learning about people for the first time instead of acknowledging you as a professional with 0.5, 1, 2, 3 decades of experience.

Man, I don't know how many interviews the author has been on the other side of the table for. There are a _lot_ of people with 2 decades of experience who have no idea how to communicate constructively with other humans over the internet. It is not a solved problem.

[noirbot]

Yea, seriously. Much like how people complain about fizzbuzz until they see how many people can't do that, the amount of candidates where basic "so tell me about how you approached a major design decision not going the way you wanted" question had them essentially admitting to being vengeful and petty is weirdly high. Or people when asked how they dealt with a junior engineer who put in a messy PR essentially recount how they traumatized a new kid.

[eloisant]

Yes, I had a candidate litterally telling me "design decisions always goes my way because I can always convince others that I'm right and they're wrong".

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