Interviews are here to determine if the place is a good fit, on both sides.
Some things are just damn too easy to spot without even trying, and this one of them. Have a great story to explain why you are actually wont leave when meeting first frustrating item at your work.
Also, everything is being evaluated, including how you react to uncomfortable questions. Parents snarky response would be a nogo on itself, regardless of subject.
- VCs merged us with a Chinese acquisition and sent our work overseas.
- Manager ignored my memos for 5 years and then said "I have no new ideas" in a review.
- Sales team demanded an emergency prototype and then let a competitor steal the contract.
- Company pivoted into a different tech stack overnight
- Google rewrote our code and kicked us out of Android
- Owner wouldn't install health benefits (+$5K) but hired his daughter for the summer for busywork.
- Company abandoned the market and went into Facebook games
There's nothing much to lose by that point.
If the guy reply "why do you care", then it s def suspicious and the short term guy might be so incompetent he s pushed away and doesnt last more than a year. I d take the guy who seem to survive 4 years most jobs to be safe.
It seems very inaccurate to judge that probability purely on past performance, which is likely to be just a handful of data points.
I was one of those, but I don't think that there's many.
I remember talking to a manager of a startup we were working with, and he told me that the average stay of an engineer was 18 months, and that they plan for that.
I bounced like that, for my first three jobs, but stuck at my fourth, for nearly 27 years.
Several of the questions in the article are very good questions to ask. Their purpose isn't for the candidate to give some canned response, like the article states. Their purpose is to help the candidate shine by asking questions that can be answered with examples from the candidate's background. If the candidate can't give solid answers that's not an issue with the questions.