Timeline for Recruiter called up twice to tell me what the interview questions are. Suspicious?
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| May 29, 2017 at 13:42 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2015 at 23:08 | comment | added | blankip | I wouldn't say that this is always a good thing for the employee. It depends if they live in a country that normally has formal contracts for hiring. If you know the answers because you were told the questions you may get this job and turn down another. Your new employer may find out quickly that you don't know as much as they think you did and fire you, justly. Then the job you turned down could be gone. Going into an interview "cheating" can turn out good or very bad. | |
| Jul 19, 2015 at 20:06 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 8, 2015 at 13:36 | comment | added | bpromas | It would be suspicious if they gave you the actual questions they were going to ask. By that point you can do the research and find answers online yourself so they might as well have given you the answer. Since they only gave you the general gist of what will be asked I think it's fine, they're giving you a chance of brushing up on a specific set of skills. It's like your history teacher telling the class "This semester we studied the twentieth century but the finals will focus mostly on World War 1 and 2 so focus your studies on that!" | |
| Jun 6, 2015 at 13:25 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | Slight niggle, if this is the case then the recruiter should say, "I think they will ask about this", or "they usually ask about this", not "they have decided to ask you about this". If he truly has definite information what they've decided, then they reason they've told him (and hence you) is different, see Philipp's answer. | |
| Jun 5, 2015 at 14:44 | comment | added | KutuluMike | @Lilienthal It's also common for us to Google the questions we're known to ask and write down, for example, all the Stack Overflow (in our case) answers; even if someone does quote such an answer back to us, it's easy to tell when someone knows the material enough to paraphrase SO vs. parroting what he read an hour ago. | |
| Jun 5, 2015 at 14:41 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Jun 5, 2015 at 14:33 | history | edited | Bernhard Barker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 5, 2015 at 14:09 | comment | added | Lilienthal♦ | Just to add, it's also common (or should be!) that the interviewer asks follow-up questions which weren't provided. It's an easy way to weed out any candidates who memorised answers but don't have any experience or knowledge to fall back on. | |
| Jun 5, 2015 at 14:01 | comment | added | Omegacron | Joe is exactly right - this is extremely common for IT positions. Most of the time, I'm dealing with a 3rd-party recruiter who doesn't know the material like I or the interviewer would, but has a list of subjects & questions provided by the hiring company. In short, the recruiter wants you to be as well-prepared for the interview as possible. Nothing suspicious, un-ethical, or illegal about it - all normal practice in the industry. | |
| Jun 5, 2015 at 13:52 | comment | added | IDrinkandIKnowThings | I agree here. One reason a company gives these questions out ahead of time is that someone who is stressed about the interview can waste time and stumble around questions they were not ready for even though they know the answer, it takes time to fomulate a good answer. Giving the questions out the day before helps even the playing field so that a company is more likely to get a good candidate rather than someone that is just a good interview. | |
| Jun 5, 2015 at 12:27 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 5, 2015 at 11:57 | history | answered | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |