preface
It is job-hopping season recently, and I find that some friends are not very good at answering some non-technical soft questions.
As we all know, programmer emotional intelligence is on the low side, and these soft problems, just have certain deceptive and bluster components in the inside, for acting bad straight male cancer, is simply born Nemesis.
In fact, don’t worry too much, the soft problems are often just a few, with a little training and preparation, you can become a high-end famous ape.
The title
Question 1: Tell me something about your weakness
Acting test: 4 stars
This topic everywhere hidden kill chicken, many friends will be honest, all their shortcomings, such as: “I have a bad temper”, “I learn things slowly”, “I love money. Color “.
Everyone has this shortcoming, but it is unnecessary to mention it.
I’m going to be a real man. All those people out there are fake sexy swords, and I’m gonna be who I am.
In fact, this is not the true self at all, this is low emotional intelligence. Don’t know how to put on a show, don’t know how to say the right thing in a particular situation.
So, how do you say a weakness that’s not quite a weakness and still make it seem like a weakness of a strength
Here’s what you should do:
With a sigh and a smile, he looked at the ground with his head tilted 45 degrees and said, “SOMETIMES I have to stay up late into the night and get tired because I am studying technical problems.” In the future, I will pay more attention and control the balance between technical study and working state.
Here are a few details to note
- “Tilt your head 45 degrees and look to the ground” makes you sound ethically unassuming, modest and easygoing.
- You use verbs such as “make”, “make” and “tired” many times in your answer, which makes people feel that you are not affected and down-to-earth.
- I say that my weakness is because I love learning too much, just like saying that my weakness is because I have too much money, which is not a weakness at all, but a strength, but in another way, directly into the sky
This is what’s known as countertribalism, the high-end game between the programmer and the interviewer, the top-level pull and pull
If you have a better answer or idea, feel free to leave a comment under the corresponding github: No.1 Tadpole
Question 2: How do you feel about working overtime?
Acting test: 3 stars
This is a really easy question to ask. First of all, no one likes to work overtime, but where there is “agile development”, “talk about overtime view”, most likely are companies that work overtime a lot.
I think normal overtime is acceptable as long as it is not one of the famous black factories in the industry
I have worked in a big factory for 8 years. I have summarized several reasons for my overtime work.
- Don’t love thinking
- Ability not
- Good fun. Sex
- poor
- The fifth point can not say, understand all understand
In the past eight years, my attitude towards overtime has changed from resistance in the early stage to patience in the middle stage to initiative now. I find that the more you don’t want to work overtime, the more it will come to you. It is better to take the initiative to attack, to learn skills and to think about how to optimize your work.
By replacing repetitive tasks with engineering and automated tools, you’ll find that you’ll get more done with less effort and be less passive than being forced to work overtime.
Masturbation once said, “Work is like John J. It’s better to close your eyes and enjoy yourself than to fight back.” Sad, but also the way for middle-aged diaosi to survive
So, here’s a good answer to this question: I’m duty-bound to work overtime if my job requires it. But at the same time, I will also think about the optimization points in the work, and replace repetitive work by developing some engineering and automation tools, so as to improve work efficiency and reduce unnecessary overtime
If you have a better answer or idea, feel free to leave a comment under the corresponding github: No.1 Tadpole
Question 3: Why did you leave your last job
Acting test: 2 stars
There are several points to note, when saying the reason for leaving, there are several taboo:
- You don’t fall out with your leader
- You can’t say you were fired
- I can’t say my last job didn’t work out, so I jumped ship
Don’t say anything bad about your previous employer or your leader.
The correct act is to show your interviewer how grateful you are for whatever your previous employer did for you. There was something overwhelming that caused you to leave
There is a conventional answer: as the platform of the previous company tends to be stable, I want a bigger platform to broaden my vision, better show my strength and create greater value for myself
Have seen a few more funny answer: “my wife want to give birth, want to go to a can on time off work of the company”, “I brokenhearted, want to go to a place to start afresh”, hee hee, but old iron or don’t answer so good
If you have a better answer or idea, feel free to leave a comment under the corresponding github: No.1 Tadpole
Question 4: How to deal with the difficulties of HR and interviewers
Acting test: 5 stars
This situation happened to me. In my second company in my career (a well-known factory), HR made things difficult for me
She was very proud, very contemptuous of me, and she said a few things that impressed me
- Your background is very ordinary, the last company was a small company, we usually only want candidates with big factory experience
- We all recruit 985 graduate students, your comprehensive quality is not as good as I imagined
- The few projects you have on your resume are so mediocre and have no name recognition. What makes you think we’ll hire you?
After the interview, I was actually very angry and thought the HR person had some personality problems, but I kept it together from beginning to end.
And finally, weirdly… I also got the offer, got the salary and rank I wanted…
Asked her a long time later why she was interviewing candidates like that
She said something along the lines of, “Hr is trying to put pressure on you, frustrate you, make you feel like you don’t deserve us, increase your chances of getting an offer, and increase your negotiating power in the future.”
This is definitely a manipulation of human psychology…
Second, but not least, “Test your emotional intelligence. Candidates who explode, retort and lose their temper at the slightest provocation are a no-no. People who are able to endure the whole process without being overbearing and remain confident demonstrate your ability to handle stress and ensure you can handle all kinds of work relationships and extreme situations in the future.”
Her answer made me realize that maybe the code has been hammered too much, and I never thought that human nature can be measured and proved just like code
Since then, I have recognized the hr professionalism of big factories
Of course, this kind of difficulties may also be the early germination of PUA.
So what should a candidate do and answer when he or she is heckled during the interview?
You can think about it for yourself
I posted the answer on Github and will post it later. If you have a better idea, you can also leave a comment: No.1 tadpole
conclusion
The above four questions reveal some tricks and counter-tricks in the interview, and show some tricks of putting on a show and acting, which many people may think is hypocritical
Here’s another quote from Lauson: “When turbidity becomes normal, innocence becomes a crime.”
Hypocritical people, sometimes is also a kind of self-protection.
Maybe it’s not hypocrisy, it’s survival, because if you don’t do it, you’re going to get screwed by the person who does it.
I hope that we can trigger some thinking, summarize ourselves and improve ourselves in view of the above questions and corresponding answers. Not just in interviews, but at work as well.
Due to space constraints, the answers to some more soft questions will be published in the next issue:
- 1. How do you handle the conflict between your technical proposal and your colleagues?
- If your plan does not agree with your leader, how to deal with it?
- 3. Where do you see yourself in the next five years
- 4. What do you think of powerpoint culture
- 5. What value can you bring to us as an employee
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