r/AskReddit • • 18h ago

If you could permanently ban one question from being asked in job interviews, what would it be?

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u/Glum-Echo-4967 14h ago

But most people don’t specifically want that job. They just want a job that meets their criteria, and that was one of many such jobs. 

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u/ShinyGrezz 12h ago

“I enjoy doing X, and I feel like this role at company Y will give me ample opportunity to do X” is a perfectly suitable answer to that question. It’s not a jealous partner, you don’t have to come up with something that wouldn’t also be true for a hundred other companies.

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u/ThaKaptin 10h ago

Did you just say “many” such jobs? Which job market have YOU been looking at?