I won’t be the only one on the call so I can’t just give him an impossible interview. we’re planning the interview together today. how do I make sure we can’t hire him?
luckily his background doesn’t line up with what our team does, at least from his resume – god it’s the worst to read from the formatting alone. so maybe I can just lean into that? my team is part of a software infrastructure group and we’re tasked with making the rest of the org stop sucking ass at software development – secrets don’t go in git repos type of stuff. so people skills and writing little bits of code that ensure the culture changes over time. his background is in operations and maybe a little software dev.
I need suggestions for questions that will make him a no go. I can’t take someone who worked for Palantir, for nearly a decade no less, seriously.
Almost everyone. Some of us didn’t realize this and took forever ro get jobs… (also was raised in a religion that heavily hated lying. I’m no longer in that religion but my lying skills still suck).
if you learn manager/business speak for describing what you’ve done, you can make your resume more impressive to HR/hiring managers without actually lying. it’s effectively embellishing but that’s because you literally can’t use the dialect without embellishing.