I would botch these interview questions

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I am not good at "making up things on the spot". If someone were to ask me what my dream project was, I would probably just describe the best parts of my most recent project.

I was told in VR that some interviewers care a lot more on how you answer the question than what you answer. Then asking bizarre questions are looking for your reaction, verbal and non-verbal, while not caring about your thought-up answer.

Yes I have a lot of trouble with those. I don't see how doing that can give any indication on whether or not you can do the jos you are interviewing for.

Yes, that's true.

I would hire people who I could tell obviously wanted the job itself, not just A job, and who seemed to deal with me and whoever was with me in an appropriate way. I looked younger then, and I often had an employee with me who was in their early twenties. Sometimes people would slip and treat us like we were a couple of teen girls and didn't know what we were doing. Or they'd get too casual. One kept winking at us.

Rocket123-Once during school for my first undergrad degree, I did an organizational psychology paper about how job interviews were just about who was better: the interviewee at lying or the interviewer at uncovering the truth. The professor didn't care for it. She was young and I think the class was her first job.

Interesting.

So, I have a lot of experience with interviewing. Unfortunately, I am not very good at it. I probably have done a couple hundred (or more) interviews in my life (both phone and in-person). My success rate (i.e. the % of times an interview leads to an offer) is really, really poor. As a matter of fact, I am so bad at interviewing that I consider myself lucky whenever I convince a company to hire me.

Anyway, whenever I interview, I am always 100% honest. As I think about it now, I imagine that this puts me at a distinct disadvantage. Because the interviewer probably expects the interviewee to lie. As a result, any accomplishment I tout (while telling the truth) will pale in comparison with the accomplishments of people who are adept at stretching the truth.

The other side of the equation (where the interviewer lies) is also problematic. As, for me at least, I am trying to figure out if the position is actually a good fit for my temperament. My track record of figuring this out is very poor. Probably because I can't tell when I am being lied to. Dang.

Yeah that's the opposite of how it's supposed to go. I recommend having a script of acceptable answers to expected questions. Non-technical questions and questions where you don't know how to do something and don't have a polite way of saying that are most likely where you need a script.

My answer to the first question?

"Is this interview going to be the kind where you ask me a lot of stupid and irrelevant questions about power animals and what I would do in situations that will never occur? Because if it is, I can already tell that I don't want to work here."