The Technique Of Refreshingly Honest Interview Answers
Dressing up honest answers as acceptable replies in a world controlled by HR, busywork, and cookie cutter psychology.
I think I can safely say that we’ve all been there at some point— sitting in some supposed technical interview or other and being asked the usual lowest common denominator questions that the interviewer got on a faded photocopy from HR that very morning or saw in some direly produced video course from the company’s shared login to an equally dire “training” site.
- “Tell me about a time when you disagreed with a management decision and how you handled the situation”
- “How have you handled potential conflict with a co-worker?”
- “Tell me about the greatest challenge you have faced and how you overcame it”
Or even the unanswerable ones of the style,
- “How would you fix a problem in a production environment?”
- “Do you prefer to work in a team?”
- “Where do you see yourself in a few years time?”
I’m sure you know a few more — some of the all too familiar staples from the well used file “InterviewQuestions_v33.docx” stored in the firm’s OneDrive folder, updated every time someone from HR comes across a new influencer blogger working remotely from…
