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> Let’s say I’m the person you hire. 6 months have gone by, what’s different?

What's wrong with "you’ll be here and doing the job"? The point of hiring someone is that there is a job to do, if you are hired and get to stay for 6 months, then you will be doing the job, if someone else is hired, he will be doing the job instead, if no one is hired, and there is no internal restructuration, then the job will not be done.

For the details, just look at the job offer. I don't understand the point of asking this, even after reading the article. Why not just ask about the job directly, instead of resorting to some cryptic roundabout question?




It's kind of the inverse of questions like "why do you why to join this company", where most interviewers would be put off by the truth, which is "because you'll pay me"


The point isn't necessarily to get an accurate rendition. It's to see how they answer. What they emphasize. What they don't mention. Most of the questions I ask when being interviewed are like this, ones that give me a sense of what the environment and the people are like.




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