Need perspectives: I’m interviewing with a senior leader at Company A in a few days. I realized that about 3-4 years ago, I worked very briefly with this individual when he was an employee of Company B and I was working on a client project for them. I know we aren’t supposed to name our previous clients on interviews, but if he happens to recognize my name and asks if I did work with Company B before, would you all say yes, and essentially name a previous client on an interview?

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Nah man just tell him it was someone else from the same company with the same name who looks like you. He’ll respect you if you call him a liar to his face

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Definitely just say the latter

How did you fit that amount of characters into the topic thread? Isn’t the limit like 200?

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🤷🏼‍♀️ maybe your app needs to be updated? Not sure

You are way overthinking this. Unless your project was literally classified it’s fine.

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Realistically for me this would go, “well I can’t say client names, but I do believe we’ve worked together before...” then we’d laugh and they would pay me $1 million/year

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If the project was successful, why not just bring up that you actually remember him from that team and that you were just in a couple meetings with him.

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Yeah, he’s already a part of the need to know circle based on your description

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