What critical feedback do you most often receive?
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The cynical (and more commonly true) answer is because they read somewhere that it’s a good interview question and so they’ve added it to their repertoire. They often don’t really know how to interpret the answers and it just ends up being a landmine for people to step on.
The cynical (and more commonly true) answer is because they read somewhere that it’s a good interview question and so they’ve added it to their repertoire. They often don’t really know how to interpret the answers and it just ends up being a landmine for people to step on.The intent is to gauge how a candidate accepts, responds to, and acts on criticism. It can also show self awareness (or a lack) in the language that the candidate uses to answer the question. Instead, it becomes one of those questions that every candidate prepares for. The response is scripted, usually sourced from other people, books or websites and reveals nothing “real” about the candidate.
The cynical (and more commonly true) answer is because they read somewhere that it’s a good interview question and so they’ve added it to their repertoire. They often don’t really know how to interpret the answers and it just ends up being a landmine for people to step on.The intent is to gauge how a candidate accepts, responds to, and acts on criticism. It can also show self awareness (or a lack) in the language that the candidate uses to answer the question. Instead, it becomes one of those questions that every candidate prepares for. The response is scripted, usually sourced from other people, books or websites and reveals nothing “real” about the candidate.As it’s a contentious question, it will also serve to put candidates on the defensive and will tend to undermine any rapport that you’ve built during the interview. It’s a bit like asking your date if they have any diseases or if anyone in their family has a history of mental illness. It takes what should be an opportunity to get to know someone and turns it into an interrogation.