My 6 Most Ruthless Job Interview Questions To See If Someone Really Knows Their Sh*t

Get so smart at job interviews that not even a deep fake can get a foot in the door.

Jano le Roux
The Startup

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Illustration by Jano le Roux

Everyone hates an imposter.

The Joe Goldbergs of LinkedIn. The person who apparently speaks Swedish as a third language. The person whose answers are as scripted as a Tucker Carlson special.

You should probably not listen to me. I am not a recruiter. I’m just the micromanaging founder of 3 companies who is — miserably — tired of asking the same shitty questions everybody else asks to hear the same shitty boilerplate answers people online tell people to say.

We all know the story.

Describe your 3 worst qualities…

It’s like an immediate trip switch goes off and an invisible teleprompter telepathically linked to indeed.com goes on.

  • I’m a perfectionist
  • I’m a workaholic
  • I’m bad at time management

No.

You’re a fucking liar.

People kept saying the same trash they thought I wanted to hear.

In search of a little honesty, I soon got bored with asking the boring…

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Jano le Roux
The Startup

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