Help! I'm a Perfect Genius, but This Potential Employer Asked Me a Boring Interview Question!

Ask A Manager, 13 Feb 2024:

I was rejected from a role for not answering an interview question. I had all the skills they asked for, and the recruiter and hiring manager loved me. I had a final round of interviews — a peer on the hiring team, a peer from another team that I would work closely with, the director of both teams (so my would-be grandboss, which I thought was weird), and then finally a technical test with the hiring manager I had already spoken to. (I don’t know if it matters but I’m male and everyone I interviewed with was female.) The interviews went great, except the grandboss. I asked why she was interviewing me since it was a technical position and she was clearly some kind of middle manager. She told me she had a technical background (although she had been in management 10 years so it’s not like her experience was even relevant), but that she was interviewing for things like communication, ability to prioritize, and soft skills. I still thought it was weird to interview with my boss’s boss. She asked pretty standard (and boring) questions, which I aced. But then she asked me to tell her about the biggest mistake I’ve made in my career and how I handled it. I told her I’m a professional and I don’t make mistakes, and she argued with me! She said everyone makes mistakes, but what matters is how you handle them and prevent the same mistake from happening in the future. I told her maybe she made mistakes as a developer but since I actually went to school for it, I didn’t have that problem. She seemed fine with it and we moved on with the interview. A couple days later, the recruiter emailed me to say they had decided to go with someone else. I asked for feedback on why I wasn’t chosen and she said there were other candidates who were stronger. I wrote back and asked if the grandboss had been the reason I didn’t get the job, and she just told me again that the hiring panel made the decision to hire someone else. I looked the grandboss up on LinkedIn after the rejection and she was a developer at two industry leaders and then an executive at a third. She was also connected to a number of well-known C-level people in our city and industry. I’m thinking of mailing her on LinkedIn to explain why her question was wrong and asking if she’ll consider me for future positions at her company but my wife says it’s a bad idea. What do you think about me mailing her to try to explain?

Sir,

You have been wronged in the most grievous of ways by a coven of retaliatory, self-aggrandizing women who have failed in the extreme to recognize your brilliance, your talent, and above all, your general superiority.

Of course you should mail this mediocre "grandboss" on LinkedIn to inform her of the deep offense she caused you by interviewing you in the first place, let alone doing so using a boring question — indeed, you have a moral and professional obligation to do so in order to preserve your honor and the honor of scores of men like you who have never done a single solitary thing wrong in their lives, ever.

But I beg you to consider doing more. A single, private message to one incompetent bitch may not convey to the necessary parties the depth and breadth of the situation. Many, many people have important lessons to learn from your experience, and I encourage you to share it widely. Consider making a public LinkedIn post, and ensure that it is shareable across platforms. Depending on your financial resources, a billboard with your name, professional headshot, and contact information could go a long way toward ensuring that everyone in your industry who needs to know just how you handled the way these women treated you, does know about it. I hope that in your continuing job search, you are able to connect with potential employers who have a much better grasp of all you bring to the table.

UwU

Hai~

Um, so... Do you think if Taylor was born a boy he would unironically wear a fedora?

If so I think his bullies would've been justified, tbh.

i think taylor should wear a fedora even without being a boy. i think women should wear fedoras, and to insist otherwise is misogyny plain and simple. let it be known that contessa will punish this brand of misogynist.

reddit moderators are getting younger and younger,

I saw some kid with a slipknot hoodie and a fedora in Norwich and could not believe they had lowered their age limit.

Since you seem to be a (¹)hat connaisseur(²),

What is your opinion on fedora hats ?

(¹)An euphemism since you are a Hatter, at this point you might be the closest thing to an expert on the matter. <--- Which is another euphemism, as a Hatter you're the one who knows better about hats, and you're not the closest thing to an expert on the matter, for you are the expert. )

(²)you'll catch me dead before i write it with "oi" instead of "ai".)

(Those footnotes are very long, my bad.)

You are an asker after my own heart.

The Fedora was first introduced in 1890s France, believe it or not, though the height of their popularity was most definitely within the 1920s and 50s, hence their association with noir films, gangsters and the likes.

I own a few, and I’ll wear them on occasion, but of course nothing can beat my favourite. A very practical hat, I must say, timeless and stylish for all genders. Overall I can appreciate them as a classic piece of headwear. 7/10, yes!

(Oh how I do wish more people would wear hats these days.)

Was putting away laundry, and I am so confused on how through the course of two years I have acquired 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 fedoras?

Random - This is Important (to me)

I'm almost done with Attack on Titan (on Volume 31 presently) and no real spoilers, but 31 opens with a scene where Levi & co. are dressed with fedoras & look like 1950s gangers / mafia bosses / most people in noir films.

This was my reaction:

Levi in a fedora is the best, I loved it.

Just wanted everyone to know.

I've never seen real musicians wear fedoras and bowling hats in real life except for on American Idol.

Can these stylists stop! They look like a party city cosplay of what normies think musicians are.

obsessed with murph desperately trying to make riz seem lame while the rest of the cast and art department are determined to establish him as the canonically hottest member of the bad kids

In which Zim disappears for a decade.

This looks like such garbage, but this has been sitting in my head for a month and I needed it OUT OF ME!!!!

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BIRD SSR????????????

NOOOO I wasted all my keys on Platinum Malleus, HOW CAN THEY DO THIS TO ME

(I do kinda love that this is officially "Raven Jacket" Crowley though) (does this open up the possibility of a selection of future Crowley fashion cards)

I can't stop thinking about pairing this guy:

with this guy:

Just something about the absolute goofball energy of the first, running into the megalomaniac energy of the second. I feel like President Loki would be all "I am here to rule and nothing's going to stop me!" and the Mobius variant would be confused but on board and also distracted by a dish on another table: "Oh yeah? Cool, cool, tell me more. Hey, are you going to eat that?"

ETA: I ended up writing a short thing for this idea. Adding a link here in case the one in the reblogs isn't obvious.

There is now a 4+1 expanded version up on AO3!

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