We were interviewing numerous job candidates in the past two weeks. As amateur bosses, we had to learn how to ask the right questions to figure out as much as possible about each candidate. A lot of insights can be drawn from these conversations and it definitely felt different sitting on the hirer side. In this article I share my thoughts about the wrong mindset to have during an interview. This is not an article to bash our interviewees. We do not do that. We publish this article for the purpose of helping interviewees to improve themselves for future interviews. Also, we are a startup which means what we look for may be different from the bigger corporations.

#1 – I want to learn

“…ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country” ~ John F. Kennedy

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