I hate interviewing, of course, but I’m glad I had the chance to thumbs up today’s candidate. If I hadn’t suffered from an uncharacteristic team-building urge I would never have agreed to be in the interviewer pool in the first place.
My first candidate was Newman, and since I decided to hire him I took the rest of the interview day off and told them to find a new ‘As Appropriate’ for last-says — I would exit on a high note.
They don’t know how to interview, these corporate climbers. They’re lucky I was there to catch the guy. They have all sorts of issues. They don’t want to be upstaged, they want to impress the candidate, would you believe. They have fear; maybe this one will get hired and stuff me. Or expose my crap interview questions. Oh but they don’t want to nix someone everyone else will endorse. Nobody wants to be an outsider.
That’s the irony; nobody wants to stand out, in public at least. They want to be upfront mediocre, and privately — between them, their boss, and HR — rockstars.
I think Newman will be ok.
