Talent and integrity is what needed in people you hire. Steve jobs said it best, we don't want to hire smart people to tell them what to do,we want smart people to tell us what to do? They’re too ambiguous and open ended, their answers won’t reveal too much about the candidates as they are the kind of questions in which a candidate can prepare and create answers that you’d want to hear.
Questions should be:
- What have you done in the last 5 years?
- What did you make?
- Who were the parties involved?
- What was the product?
- How long did it take?
- How did you measure the success of the project or product?
- Did you fail and what did you learn?
- Would you do it all over again?
All standard interview questions should be replaced. Everyone can buy a sexy resume and can pay a career coach to ace the interview. Anyone can pay to find info and prepare for standard interview questions but you cant pay to answer questions that are designed to reveal ones talent, integrity, intelligence, dedication commitment and self worth.
The worst part is that we need to prepare the answers ahead to beat people that look up the answers on the internet to show a quality that they do not have. But at the end of the day, if we try to escape them, it will somehow imply that we "do not care" and came "unprepared" for the interview, regardless how great we are on our jobs. We need to prove with ineffective questions how good we are in words not in actions.
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