Todd Olson

There's like a hundred blog posts on how to prepare for interviews.

So if you don't think that person is like skilled at answering your questions,

what is your biggest weakness question or what do you want to be when you grow up?

No, they're going to give you a really, really good answer.

Trust me.

Like every time I ask them what their weakness is, they give you some like, like answer, like I work too hard.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well that's, that's a real weakness.

So yeah, we don't want people that work hard.

So yeah.

So like completely useless question.

And so, so, so then question is why do I do it?

I do it because I think the more humans, whoops, I broke something.

The more humans that talk to a people, the more you can triangulate and the more you catch things.

The second thing, the reason I do it, is that it's a great moment of coaching for my managers.

Why did you give me this candidate?

Like, how do they get through five people to get to me?

That's often a question I ask.

How the hell did this person get to me?