[neilv]

I thought Chief Financial Officers were supposed to be good at financials.

Do they also have to be good at perjury?

Is that FAANG job interview analogous to the one for software engineers?

"Can you go to the whiteboard, and perform for me one of the standard case studies of CFOs who got away with perjury? Which you should have memorized, even if you learned nothing else in school."

"Using STAR format, tell me about a time that you lied about financials, and got away with it."

"OK, in the 3 minutes left, I want to turn this over to you, for any questions you have. ... Oh, if you have experience working with financials, normally people mention that in the Hobbies section of their resume; here at Faang, our interviews focus instead on the fundamentals."