E.G. One could respond to the question, saying that this is an important process that they would go through - even if there was only ONE offer letter to decide upon, but still provide your answer.
Then ask, in a more respectful manner, something along the lines of:
"Based on this question, what are the top three things you/your company values in an employee and further, what are the top three things the company values about itself."
You can also ask the interviewer what the top 3 things he values about working for that company.
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One of the toughest questions I have had to answer in an interview was from Twitter, where the manager asked me "What would be the one thing, should we work together, that could cause problems for us?"
This was a pain to answer because, frankly I know nothing of this guy, so I replied "Poor communication. If we can't communicate well with each other, it will make both our jobs hard."
He said "Great thanks, when are you available to start?"
I told him, the interview was over, and I never heard back.
samstave didn't turn down the job-he told the interviewer his start date. That was the end of the interview. Afterwards, samstave never heard back from twitter.
But the way it was stated after the multi round interviews appeared to imply that they were interested in me.
After a few weeks of nothing, I emailed the recruiter and got a terse "we've decided to go another direction" email.
I thought it was ironic that I had said poor communication would be a bad thing for us, and then there was poor communication in telling me they weren't interested.
:)
It all worked out great for both of us though, because the job I have now is such a better fit for me than twitter would have been.
E.G. One could respond to the question, saying that this is an important process that they would go through - even if there was only ONE offer letter to decide upon, but still provide your answer.
Then ask, in a more respectful manner, something along the lines of:
"Based on this question, what are the top three things you/your company values in an employee and further, what are the top three things the company values about itself."
You can also ask the interviewer what the top 3 things he values about working for that company.
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One of the toughest questions I have had to answer in an interview was from Twitter, where the manager asked me "What would be the one thing, should we work together, that could cause problems for us?"
This was a pain to answer because, frankly I know nothing of this guy, so I replied "Poor communication. If we can't communicate well with each other, it will make both our jobs hard."
He said "Great thanks, when are you available to start?"
I told him, the interview was over, and I never heard back.