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.
You're the one doing the interviews, just make up that he said something racist or whatever verbally during the interview or whatever else that could 'make you feel uncomfortable'. If you're the one doing interviews they probably already trust your judgment, that's why you're being paid to make one. Unless it's for something really specific and he's the only qualified applicant then 'his resume looks great but he creeper me the hell out' works just fine.
there's a second interviewer in there with me and the team eventually meets to make a collective decision, so no, I can't just make stuff up. and as one of the only women on the team, I'm nervous about using something like "he creeped me out" because it's going to be read in a gendered way. I'll keep it in my backpocket for if I can't find a more direct way to get the team to no. oh also, he's in the UK so I dunno if HR has to tell him why he was rejected legally there. I know some countries mandate that kind of disclosure.
Damn, that's a whole thing. I'm tired all the time and make no money working in a kitchen but we have a very strict no chuds policy and resumes are posted on a clipboard openly in a kitchen so any of us can lurk them online or whatever and if there's obvious red flags that resume goes in the dang trash.
yeah, my boss is Bernie Sanders lib so anything directly fash would go in the trash but he screened this person and didn't think Palantir was a red flag