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3 Things Not To Do Before An Interview
A brief guide to not looking dodgy, underhand, or downright subversive to a potential employer.
Though I feel a gentle warmth inside myself¹ when I hear that someone I’m interviewing has read some of my previous articles here on Medium I do feel a little aggrieved if they should they call them my “blog” as they’re so much more than that. Well, at least to me anyway.
Think catharsis, think legacy, think please would a major publication offer me a column writing about the Grand Game for mega stacks so I can go and live, and sometimes even write, on a Rock Royalty balcony in the Hard Rock Hotel full time. Please, DMs are open, etc.
Though I would actually think it a little odd if they said they’d “read every single one” of them. Besides the fact that it would take some considerable time, I do feel that they might know just a little bit too much about me, had perhaps trained an LLM on the prose and put in some interview practice with my simulacrum in advance even.
I think I’d feel violated, or something, I guess that’s another thing we’ll have to think about as we descend into the general banality of an LLM guided near future — until we make a breakthrough into something actually worthwhile² anyway.
Generally, though, it’s quite encouraging that someone has checked me out, even…
