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Job Interviews (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by donut_shaped_universe@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine you got 3 job offers ... the interviewer wants to know why his company is the one you’d choose

Because you expressed interest in hiring me? And I need a job? So I'm here? I'd also be perfectly content picking the other 2 companies if it's the same salary.

What caught your eye about this job posting?

The fact that you guys said you were hiring?

they’d prefer someone who is interested

I guess this is the real problem. I don't care about your company. I'm here to exchange my time for money. I have my own interests and they don't involve working at your company.

But, yes fine. I understand this is the game I have to play. I will lie to you and tell you that it's been my dream since I was a little kid to work at your dumb company, selling shit that no one needs or tricking people into giving you money.

One company that asked me this made... let's say IoT flower pots (something mundane like that)... I guess I'm supposed to say: OMG! I. LOVE. CONNECTED. FLOWER. POTS! How did humanity survive without internet connected flower pots??! My sole purpose in life is to help make IoT flower pots. Please allow me to join you guys! 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️

Is it not possible to have something like this?

Job: We need someone who can build IoT flower pots.
Me: Yep, give me enough money and I'll do it.
Job: OK.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's a perfectly fine position to have, but surely you are not surprised that given a candidate that shows some interest, and a candidate that doesn't care, the company would prefer the former. You don't need to be interested, that's ok, but if someone else is, then they will probably be easier to work with.

IoT flower pots? I could say "I noticed you use MQTT for networking the pots, I used it before for a hobby project of a multiplayer Scrabble game, it's pretty cool tech. And I saw in the posting you want to move from Atmega32 to an ARM chip? What are your plans for the compiler toolchain?"

At no point did I mention I like flower pots or that I think they are a good idea. And yet I've shown I have previous experience, a desire to learn new skills, and turned the conversation around by asking a question. And I didn't lie or "play a game".

And if there is literally nothing interesting about the company, that's fine, but then the company is probably not interested in you either. And there is nothing wrong with that.