marcicat | workaday Wednesday

Last week I got free-lunch Friday for the meet-and-greet interview, which sure was a thing. The interviewee was in their FOURTH HOUR of interviews by that point, and my main impression of them was that they were very tired of it all. But! Also hanging on to patience and tact with impressive determination.

The BEST MOMENT was when they were asked about why they were looking to leave their current job. Which is of course a test about how well you can use the special interview language to make things sound just the right blend of bland and sincere. And this candidate was very good at it! But when they answered this question, there was a looooong pause, and they finally said, “Sometimes, the higher up you get in a company, the more you see things.”

Based on the exceptionally bland answers to every other question, I can only guess this was the equivalent of saying, ‘I have SEEN SOME SHIT, YOU GUYS, NOT EVEN KIDDING. If YOU KNEW what I KNEW, you would NOT NEED to ask that question.’ Not gonna lie, I kind of hope they get hired just so we can hear that story in more depth someday.

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