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Re:Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview (2017) by WalterBright on Saturday April 11, 2020 @02:29PM (#22843213)
The best sales technique for a candidate is for the candidate to do research and/or ask enough questions to find out what the problems the company is having. Then the candidate explains how he's going to fix those problems.

This works because that's the reason why the company is interviewing people - they have a problem they need to solve. Be that solution.

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Re:Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview (2017) by klenwell on Saturday April 11, 2020 @03:09PM (#22843461)
Good point. I'm not applying to work at a car dealership. When I'm on the other side of the table, I'm deliberately trying to avoid hiring a car salesmen. As a hiring manager, I may give a bit of a canned response to the question. But I'm not going to hold it against a candidate.

If this question turns a company off, both the company and candidate have obtained a critical piece of information.

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