Insightful! I guess I happen to be the very rare counterexample in that at some point in every interview process I've been through, I've been asked questions like the ones the author says won't get me hired.
And I've never been asked "can you do this job?" (not so bluntly anyways, though obviously you are evaluated on that to some degree)
Those questions don't mean you are not getting hired at all. They are (for better or for worse) standard practice by HR personnel. They might not tell you anything about a candidates capacity to do a job, but a lot of times personality fit is just as important. And I can tell a lot about a person by their answers to really stupid questions (even if they are canned, planned out, rehearsed responses).
I want to work with cool people and have the pleasure of doing so. If competency was the only factor my firm asked for when hiring, I'd probably be working somewhere else.
Ability is a necessary, but insufficient condition for employment, in my opinion.
THATS why the employers ask you the questions that "Mean You're Not Getting Hired"
The real question is not can you do this job but are you useful aka worth the time and money it's going to take to employ you. Which is the point of the other questions.
Basically, they want to know how useful you are for this job and if this project tanks are we going to need to fire you or can you be used to do some other task.
Insightful! I guess I happen to be the very rare counterexample in that at some point in every interview process I've been through, I've been asked questions like the ones the author says won't get me hired.
And I've never been asked "can you do this job?" (not so bluntly anyways, though obviously you are evaluated on that to some degree)
Those questions don't mean you are not getting hired at all. They are (for better or for worse) standard practice by HR personnel. They might not tell you anything about a candidates capacity to do a job, but a lot of times personality fit is just as important. And I can tell a lot about a person by their answers to really stupid questions (even if they are canned, planned out, rehearsed responses).
I want to work with cool people and have the pleasure of doing so. If competency was the only factor my firm asked for when hiring, I'd probably be working somewhere else.
Ability is a necessary, but insufficient condition for employment, in my opinion.
THATS why the employers ask you the questions that "Mean You're Not Getting Hired"