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>This is all starting to sound a bit too much like a personal ad, but my
>point is this. What am I supposed to say to an interviewer? If I try to
>explain my problem, I just come off like someone refusing to commit myself.
>And yet I hate to apply such one-dimensional characterization to myself.
>The problem is that I tend to fail miserably in interviews when I focus on
>*the game* and stop trying to be honest and *real* about myself.
>
That's why these are silly questions. At best you are using a dubious
methodology to determine a good candidate, and at worst you are wasting
everybody's time. The same is true of the Hyman Rickover anecdote, which I
have also heard as a typical IBM method of judging candidates.
--Wayne
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