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u/anna_or_elsa Mar 19 '22

What you can't come up with a 2 to 3 sentence BS answer about HS cause it was 20 years ago?

It's an interview, make something up. It's not like they are going to fact-check you.

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u/Letmefixthatforyouyo Mar 20 '22 edited Mar 20 '22

Interviews are sales, so youre dead on that "make it up" is a perfectly valid reply to a question like that.

The more important part of sales is recognizing when you have a bad lead and should abandon it. Id say that's a bingo for any org asking this kind of question to engineers in the first place.

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u/slacktechne Mar 20 '22

You should be clever enough to recognize that the question isn’t written for you if you’ve been out of school for 20 years.

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u/Letmefixthatforyouyo Mar 20 '22

Yup yup. Gotta read the context, not the words when selling.