Job interviewer asks candidate why they want the job, to which candidate replies ‘I need the money’, leaving speechless interviewer unsure how to proceed

By now, we all know that job interviews are basically a game of strategy. As a candidate who wants to win the game, all you need to do is find the best answers to satisfy the interviewer, regardless of your thoughts or feelings, and you are one step closer to securing the job. It is well established that people constantly lie in job interviews and simply say what the interviewer wants to hear, just to get the job.

'Why do you want to work for our company?' is an age-old question and its reply is the perfect example of lying to get the job. Job candidates have to come up with some nonsense answer about what they think is special about the company and role they are interviewing for, as if they haven't gone through dozens of interviewers who ask the same questions and expect the same answers. At some point, you become a master at replying with the perfect answers. So when the candidate in this story decided to tell the truth instead of supplying that perfect answer, it took both the interviewer and us by surprise.

Keep scrolling to read the whole tale. Up next, check out this story of an employee who got back at their company after they passed him over for promotion.

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