Lousy Interviewee Tries To Lie Their Way Into Job, Company Sees Through It

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Jul 24, 2021 2:00 PM EDT

Trying to blow that smoke during an interview is a surefire way to lose credibility and respect from whoever is interviewing you, right off the bat. The thing about the game of lies is that it can oftentimes be very easy to see right through by the people that have a decent enough grasp on their senses. In the case of interviewee "X", their whole schtick didn't end up working out too well for them at all. It sounds like they were just the kind of employee that multiple companies didn't particularly enjoy having around. Hopefully they learned their lesson. For some more juicy tech support drama check out the time that a company continually demanded a password, how tech support said no, and then the drama that ensued.

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    Font - A r/talesfromtechsupport u/ascii4ever · 3d + Join third interviewee, my team dodges a bullet Medium Wow, kind of surprised at the comments, since there's interest in the "final candidate", here is the story. This candidate, hereafter X, was the actual reason I had checked with HR on whether I needed to interview all internal applications.
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    Font - I had attended a few meetings that X also attended. Probably everyone has dealt with a similar person. Always has a comment on every subject discussed, always has a story about how hard their situation is, but they manage to overcome all problems no matter what. Conversation is filled with techno-speak that often does not make sense and you know they are blowing smoke but you don't have the time or energy to call them on it, you just want to be out of the blasted meeting so you can do you
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    Font - Anyway, I see X has applied for the position. I check with HR, they say I should interview all the internal applicants. Sigh, ok. Thappen to know someone I trust that works close to X, not in X's actual group, but knew X fairly well. I call this trusted person and carefully say that I'm not going to ask their opinion, they don't have to say anything, but I will just plainly state that X has applied for a position in my group. There's a moment of silence, followed by peals of laughter, tha
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    Font - But, we have to interview X. So, X's interview rolls around, and l'm very lucky to have a super smart professor on my panel. This professor has one of the best BS detectors of anyone I work with. We go through the interview with X and the professor is hardly asking any questions, he's sitting very quietly. We finish up with X and I'm a bit worried. X can BS like nobody's business and I'm worried some on the panel may have fallen for it. After X leaves the room,
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    Font - professor turns to me with a look of horror and asks why the hell we interviewed X? X clearly knows nothing, he's totally blowing smoke, am I out of my mind? Sighing with relief I lay out what HR told me, and I mention the reaction I got from the trusted person I called. Professor thinks for a moment and says they understand, but do we have anymore of these people? No, the rest are outside candidates and one in particular looks really good, in fact we probably can't pay enough to get them
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    Font - Chojin22000 · 3d Really don't see how BS is still considered a valid strategy. If you can be humble and demonstrate a passion for learning new tech it comes across so much better. Only this week we took on an administrator that was 'Good with IT, he's written his own programs!. Il've had two tickets so far this week where l've had to open Task Manager to close a crashed application for them and restart it (crashes are due to user being impatient during running processes). Actually now tha
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