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In other words, you will do what 99% of all applicants will do, even the ones that didn't really want the job in the first place: you'll tell the interviewer what you think they want to hear.

The lesson here is: "asking questions" does not equal "having a conversation". No amount of lists, short or long, will result in a good job interview.



>In other words, you will do what 99% of all applicants will do, even the ones that didn't really want the job in the first place: you'll tell the interviewer what you think they want to hear.

Well no, I tend to do the Luciferian thing: tell the complete truth and let them hear what they please.

This has, in its time, lost me a couple of opportunities because they didn't want someone who was aiming for research rather than aiming for their position. Of course, those opportunities were in entry-level software engineering positions.




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