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Originally Posted by aarono2690
Interesting. I never lie or fluff for an interview. I may research questions that are commonly asked and see how my life experiences provide answers, but I never embellish. Don't people feel icky treating their summer at DQ as if they led a battalion in Iraq?
I did not realize most people lie/employers expect them to lie.
I interview a lot of people and the process is total garbage, it's barely better than just looking at interviews. I don't think people necessarily
lie in interviews but they're definitely putting spin on things, and anything they can spin on their resume they can spin in an interview.
Recommendations are way, way more reliable. We hardly ever hire anyone without a recommendation, it's just too risky and we don't get enough headcount to take a chance on someone we think might be great if we have someone we are pretty sure will be OK.
The problem with relying on recommendations is that you get a monoculture.
Hiring managers have a super-finite number of reqs. The company as a whole has enough overall that the total company performance would probably be better if they took more chances and had a more diverse workforce overall, but the current system treats hiring as a bunch of isolated, one-off decisions where the individual hiring manager is highly incentivized to make a safe choice instead of a company-wide process that unfolds over a long term.