I won't be the only one on the call so I can't just give him an impossible interview. we're planning the interview together today. how do I make sure we can't hire him?

luckily his background doesn't line up with what our team does, at least from his resume -- god it's the worst to read from the formatting alone. so maybe I can just lean into that? my team is part of a software infrastructure group and we're tasked with making the rest of the org stop sucking ass at software development -- secrets don't go in git repos type of stuff. so people skills and writing little bits of code that ensure the culture changes over time. his background is in operations and maybe a little software dev.

I need suggestions for questions that will make him a no go. I can't take someone who worked for Palantir, for nearly a decade no less, seriously.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    7 months ago

    If I was in your shoes - I'd google them and see what comes up. You probably won't find anything incriminating but you'll never know if you don't at least spend a few minutes poking around.

    Everybody lies on their resumé. How much is too much is up to debate. I think the average person lies a little but people can get addicted to padding the information to the point they are easily caught lying to the point of termination. And of course - there's a world beyond their business life.

    If I found something incriminating - I would "leak" it to my company via email. I'll say it for the thread that if anybody ever does this - cover your tracks carefully. Also - time it well. I would be neutral in the interview. Sometime later (days or weeks?) I'd send the email.

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    I bet if you google, search reddit or google reddit you can fin some (very) good ideas: petty revenge, r/PettyRevenge, etc.

    • ElHexo [comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      I would "leak" it to my company via email. I'll say it for the thread that if

      I'd just say I googled the candidate and they're out

    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      Almost everyone. Some of us didn't realize this and took forever ro get jobs... (also was raised in a religion that heavily hated lying. I'm no longer in that religion but my lying skills still suck).

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        7 months ago

        if you learn manager/business speak for describing what you've done, you can make your resume more impressive to HR/hiring managers without actually lying. it's effectively embellishing but that's because you literally can't use the dialect without embellishing.

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      7 months ago

      I'll give it a shot. I might not know how to find this kind of info cause I usually don't get much beyond socials. do you just trawl their socials looking for dirt?

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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        7 months ago

        I've been lucky in my life that I've never needed to do something like this. If you're willing to buy their credit report (whatever those cost) - that would be the easiest starting point. Other than that I think starting from zero with a google search like how to get personal dirt would be the way to go.