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(#12) Basic Questions
From Redditor u/jekka31088:
We had someone come in and interview for a call center position. Their resume claimed they had 3 years working in a call center in town. When she arrived, she was very lethargic, and couldn't answer basic interview questions. When asked what she did at Call Center A, she literally just said "call center rep." When asked to elaborate on her duties, she repeated the same thing. No details were given. She even claimed that she has never been asked such hard and detailed questions during a job interview before. We didn't make it past 3 very basic questions. We have concluded she lied about working at Call Center A, or at least she certainly didn't work anywhere near 3 years there.
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(#19) You Can't Know Everything
From Redditor u/dgran73:
Maybe more of an answer about general competence but in my observation the smartest people are comfortable saying they don't know something or acknowledge limitations in their knowledge or experience. Naive or bluffing candidates want to project an air of knowing everything, which is implausible.
Another signal is how eager they are to go into depth. I interview programmers and technical staff, so I like to ask them about the project they are most proud of. I listen carefully and ask a few questions about how they worked through some thorny tech aspects. I understand that software is a team effort, but the legitimate contributors are eager to talk about technical details of what they built. The ones who just attended meetings and rarely contributed much struggle to say anything of substance. That is quite telling in my view.
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(#8) Betrayed By Your Glasses
From Redditor u/tvb1313:
When you're doing a video interview and you can watch them try to google stuff in the reflection of their glasses. Small props for being clever though, he was paraphrasing the question back to me as a way to use the voice assistant.
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(#18) I Really Like Calculus!
From Redditor u/anooblol:
Not a hiring manager but I covered my boss for an interview (for whatever reason he had).
The guy I interviewed had a degree in math, and the field I work in needs close to 0% of what you learn in a mathematics degree. I would know... because I have a degree in math. I interviewed for the job because I had networking connections tied to the field. But I was super confused as to how someone else like me landed at the same place as me.
So I asked him about it.
Turns out that asking basic questions about a field you actually know about is very revealing.
“What was your favorite subject in math?”
Oh, I really liked calculus!
“Well calculus is very broad. What specifically did you like? Something in analysis?”
*Visually scrambling* Yeah, I meant analysis.
“Complex analysis? Real analysis? Functional analysis?”
Oh well, you know. I mainly focused on applied math, so I didn’t really take those classes.
“You wouldn’t take real analysis in an applied math track? That sounds odd...”
I had a bunch of interesting questions I wanted to ask him, but I decided to cut almost every question I prepared out the window.
Also, if you put some bullsh** “I know how to code in X language”, when you know damn-well that you’re not going to need it in the field you applied. You better be sure you can answer basic questions about it.
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(#22) 17? I Could Do 100-150
From Redditor u/modoken1:
If they try to downplay a task that you know is actually difficult. For example, I worked at a hotel and whenever we had people apply to be housekeepers and claimed to have experience, but when you tell them how many rooms they would have to clean a day they would go “17? I could do 20-25 easy” but never ask how big the rooms were. Just basic stuff where they talk a big game, and overplay their hand.
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(#29) Interviewers Talk
From Redditor u/Crazeeeyez:
Agree with many of the comments here. My own view :
no examples just vague conversation or talking points
avoids or can’t answer follow up questions
multiple interviewers hear a different Story and take away. I had one person tell me they lived and breathes operations and another interviewer they never worked in operations before. Do you think we don’t talk before making a decision??
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Hiring managers and candidates often fall into a situation where they almost encourage each other to lie. Using lies to make others feel good and show a better self, which is one of the characteristics of social skills. Scientific research has shown that when people lie, there will be some unnatural and uncoordinated verbal expressions and body movements. Hiring managers can always find evidence of lying by observing the language content and posture of the candidate.
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