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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by jacquesm on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @12:54PM (#24483485)
Classic. I had a similar thing happen a while ago. US based company - not named to protect the guilty - wanted me to move to the United States to do some pretty specific work for them. I'm not open to such offers but they went out of their way to make the invitation, offered to fly me out there and a whole pile of other buttering up bits and pieces. So I said if they wanted me that badly, could we do this remote?

You can guess where that ended. In case you can't: "Who did I think I was to refuse their offer to come to America to partake in this great opportunity?".

Interesting attitude change, turning on a dime they went from all smooth and friendly to outright hostile, and that on a track that they initiated. Very weird.

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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by WrtCdEvrydy on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:03PM (#24483610)
I always love getting a question about "Why are you interviewing for this position?" and replying "I got an email from your internal recruiter".

The follow up is usually "Why do you want to leave your current company?" replying with "I'm not, your recruiter said this was a cool place".

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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by plorkyeran on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @02:26PM (#24484797)
Presumably you don't schedule an interview every single time a recruiter contacts you, so there the question is more of "what made you say yes to interview with us?"
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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by redisman on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:10PM (#24486734)
From my experience that answer also means you won't be going forwards so it's just a waste of everyones time. I guess you're supposed to feign immense interest in this cold-call interview.
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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by seattletech on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:50PM (#24484299)
Yeah that just drives me nuts. If you're recruiting, you're trying to sell me on the position.
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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by Zippogriff on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:15PM (#24485505)
Imagine if we did this for other things.

"Why do you want to sell me this apple?"

"Be... cause... I grow apples? To sell? And you said you want one, and are holding money?"

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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by jacquesm on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:19PM (#24486816)
Hilarious. There's a car salesman joke in there.
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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by shard on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @07:07PM (#24487763)
There might be legal reasons (taxes, employment laws) that are too much of a hurdle for them to allow remote work from another country. I've heard estimates of 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars to set up the necessary structure, not to mention the months that the process will take.
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