Reinventing the Job Interview

Worklife with Adam Grant

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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"We’ve all answered our share of cringeworthy interview questions—and watched managers pick the wrong person while rejecting the right one. Is it time to delegate hiring decisions to algorithms? Find out what the experts recommend, and meet a pair of leaders who have reimagined the interview process by ignoring credentials and refusing to look at resumes.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:12.0	Hello? This is Adam?
0:14.0	This is Dave.
0:15.0	Dave, I have to tell you it's not every day that somebody invites themselves on my podcast.
0:20.0	I'm willing to do anything, whatever it takes to be on this podcast.
0:24.0	Okay, I'm going to interview you to see if you're qualified for this opportunity.
0:28.0	Tell me Dave, what's your greatest weakness?
0:31.0	My greatest weakness would probably be my quick temper. I have a short fuse.
0:38.0	All right, and will that help her hurt the show?
0:41.0	Should I be worried that you're going to throw a chair at our producer?
0:44.0	No, no, no, definitely won't happen. But sometimes when I'm super stressed out, the worst version of myself comes out.
0:52.0	Wow, okay. Well, you are unusually honest if nothing else.
0:57.0	Yes.
0:58.0	I don't think I got a copy of your resume. How poorly did you do in school?
1:02.0	Pretty bad. So I graduated with a C++ from college, with a degree in religion of all things.
1:09.0	How many elevators do you think there are in America?
1:12.0	Wow. I don't know. Maybe a couple million?
1:18.0	Are you just making that up?
1:20.0	I'm just making that up.
1:22.0	You're not even going to try to show me that you've thought it through?
1:26.0	How did you get into this interview?
1:28.0	I don't know. I don't know. You see, for what it's worth, there are 900,000 elevators in America according to Google.
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