Surprised that people still ask questions like ‘strengths and weakness’ and ‘a time when you had to handle a difficult situation’ while interviewing candidates with 10+ years of relevant experience. It wasn’t even an HR interview. That just signals me to not join your team.

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Agreed I get visibly annoyed if I get asked a lazy hr question and certainly makes me less likely to want to join. Best interviews I had didn’t feel like interviews at all but still managed to capture skills and experiences

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So what sort of questions are you expecting...? Feel like I am missing something- here’s why...

For me, interviews are a two way conversation, to determine if you fit the role and have the necessary skills to be successful in the team/firm you are interviewing with.
Surely assuming that someone you haven’t met before knows how great you are because you claim to have communicated this is lazy at best and arrogant at worst?

Having emotional intelligence, the ability to self-reflect on your strengths and weaknesses, and clearly communicate what these are adapted to your audience are all core skills that I see questions mentioned above testing, irrespective of #years experience.

So, what am I missing? Genuinely curious as I have used those questions in past interviews, though hadn’t seen the perspective of them being poor choices until reading this thread

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