FAANG hiring managers share how to answer behavioral interview questions

Re:FAANG hiring managers share how to answer behavioral inte... by detaro on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:45AM (#22009169)

> Let's say you name a reasonable weakness that can easily be improved upon and that doesn't spell disaster for your ability to do your job.

To the recipient, that is equally likely the rehearsed answer, because from high school on your told to think of one to reply to that question that fits into what your interviewer probably thinks is reasonable.

And there's the entire thing where some people answering truthfully would tell the interviewer things the interviewer isn't legally allowed to ask about, which is always a lovely strategy for running an interview.

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Re:FAANG hiring managers share how to answer behavioral inte... by keyboardbarista on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:52AM (#22009204)

The stereotypical rehearsed answer is the Michael Scott one, where you dodge the question by actually naming a strength and pretending it's a weakness.

In my experience working at places full of smart, talented, ambitious people looking to fill a role with a similar caliber of person: don't do that.

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Re:FAANG hiring managers share how to answer behavioral inte... by username90 on Friday January 10, 2020 @10:20AM (#22011541)

Most people knows that you should give a "real" but insignificant weakness just as you said you wanted in the previous post instead of non-weaknesses. If you don't think that people have practiced such answers and carefully picked their "weakness" then you are ignorant.

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