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Re:We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016) by raxxorrax on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:36PM (#21774769)
Don't know the party, but it would be a weak question in an interview in my opinion.
Re:We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016) by pc86 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:49PM (#21777452)
I think it's possible you're missing the point.

If you have such crippling social anxiety that you cannot name literally any book, whether you've read it or not, and you can't even make one up, the odds of you performing well at an interview are extremely small.

Re:We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016) by perl4ever on Thursday December 12, 2019 @09:29PM (#21778671)
I'm reasonably confident in at least half the interviews I do, and I might blank if I was asked about books, because somewhere in my 30s, I essentially stopped reading them. If you reminded me of something I'd read, I could talk about it, but nothing comes to mind any more because I'm no longer buying or reading books on a day-to-day basis.

Also, assuming one or more came to mind, maybe I'm paralyzed in an interview because I'm thinking about what the ones I can think of imply, whether they give away my age, or whatever.

It would be easy to talk about a book if I was warned ahead of time.

I'm not sure I even know where my copy is, but if I chose one book that I've read that more people should know about, it would be:

"You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization" (Elliott D. Sclar)

But in an interview on the spot, I absolutely wouldn't have come up with that.