Current Events > Job interviewer asks "What is your biggest flaw?"

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Your response?
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This stupid question
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I'm a perfectionist

My dick is small
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Interviewing for jobs.
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Patty_Fleur posted...

My dick is small

They said biggest not smallest.

Sometimes can get too caught up in details. Usually with the jobs I apply to, that comes across as a positive.
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I don't get how people struggle on this or don't get what it's asking tbh.

You're just meant to describe a minor issue and how you work on improving/handle it. It's basic stuff at this point.
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I get up and leave.
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I'm missing half a testicle
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Serious answer : I got a low attention span, but I keep a checklist to make sure I do not forget anything.

Just add a "but, I do something to defeat my flaw".

Always
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I always just say I'm organized in a disorganized way. Like I can find something if I need it, but if someone else needed to get something off my desk good luck. It's one of those things that can pretty easily be fixed at a new job, but also isn't such a big deal that they wouldn't want you. It's also honest.
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Corman321 posted...

I'm a perfectionist

Lol, a classic. Not one that should be literally answered in a real interview environment though.

I used to say something along "Since my area of expertise is quite technical and specialised, aspects of my work are sometimes hard to simplify enough for the profane or people I meet professionally and who do not belong to my profession. But getting better at it and yada yada".

It works wondrously, you will thank me later :)
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My genuine answer at my last interview was "my ambition can be an issue"

"Why would it be?"

"No one likes someone who is younger, faster, better than them, and who is after more than they have."

"See that?" *Looks at other interviewer* "THAT'S confidence!"

My last interview is the one I'd like to be the last one I ever have. I nailed that little talk.
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I don't handle stress well and have a violent reaction to rejection.
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Random.

Unwanted.

Erections.
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I post in CE.... and manage to stay sane.

*Gets hired automatically*
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justaguy3492 posted...

I always just say I'm organized in a disorganized way. Like I can find something if I need it, but if someone else needed to get something off my desk good luck. It's one of those things that can pretty easily be fixed at a new job, but also isn't such a big deal that they wouldn't want you. It's also honest.

As a manager I don't like this answer tbh. Not saying it won't get you into whatever job you're looking for but as someone who runs a team that's heavily reliant on other's being organized, that answer just means your not organized.

Other bad answers I've come across and learned to avoid hiring: I talk too much, anything related to attendance, anything money related.

A good answer is "sometimes I take too much work head on and don't realize when I need help completing tasks. But after I've communicated with my prior teams the issue I've realized that it's not an inconvenience to ask other for help." Or something of that nature.
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low dodge chance
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I'm sexually attracted to Pokemon.
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Fire
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E32005 posted...

This stupid question

That's actually a good one. "I have no patience for stupid questions." I'm actually going to use that on my next interview.
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I just roll my eyes and leave.

I've had my fill of stupid interview questions that don't amount to anything, when they ask that kind of question, I know I'm wasting my time and need to move onto the next job.
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I have bad people skills.

Not in a shy, introverted way, but quite the opposite.

Some would say that I'm difficult to deal with and have a bad temper.

My biggest gripe is that I can't stand incompetent people who act as if they know shit, but in reality they got their jobs through various connections.
And where I'm from, in most companies at least 50% of the workers are like that.

Tupacrulez posted...

My genuine answer at my last interview was "my ambition can be an issue"

"Why would it be?"

"No one likes someone who is younger, faster, better than them, and who is after more than they have."

"See that?" *Looks at other interviewer* "THAT'S confidence!"

My last interview is the one I'd like to be the last one I ever have. I nailed that little talk.

Im stealing this tbh
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I manipulate everyone I meet, I do the minimum amount of work necessary to keep my job and if I don't get a chance to handle things in the morning before work I will spend half the day edging.

The Catgirl Fondler posted...

I just roll my eyes and leave.

I've had my fill of stupid interview questions that don't amount to anything, when they ask that kind of question, I know I'm wasting my time and need to move onto the next job.

Yeah man if there was really a labor shortage they would be yelling for you to come back

My biggest flaw is that I only have one strength with that strength being that I have no weaknesses.
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CharlesBronson posted...

The Catgirl Fondler posted...

I just roll my eyes and leave.

I've had my fill of stupid interview questions that don't amount to anything, when they ask that kind of question, I know I'm wasting my time and need to move onto the next job.

Yeah man if there was really a labor shortage they would be yelling for you to come back

Eh, it's been an employer's market for over a decade now, there's no labor shortage.
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That I'm really anti social and difficult to make small talk with and this means people tend to have problems working with me

Just use it to find out if they're in love with you or if they were going to treat you like cattle. If they treat employees like numbers then they end the interview and don't waste more of my time. If they keep going they need me.

Easy.

epik_fail1 posted...

Just add a "but, I do something to defeat my flaw".

Yeah just be honest and then explain what skills you've learned to compensate.

If you say something like "I work too hard", I mean, they weren't born yesterday.
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Tell them you have a micropenis.
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I usually say I have a little tunnel vision and sometimes work on a project for too long without weighing all of the options.

Then I say how I'm actively working on it by implanting timely reviews and taking steps back to monitor progress and things like that.
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I am always late for work, take 20 sick days a year and work badly in a team.
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If people talk to me for more than 10 seconds I get bored and withdraw into my head, but I'm working on it.
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I answered

"patience. However i understand that everyone works and learns at a different pace, so when I feel my impatience creeping up, I take a deep breath and use it as an opportunity to help the other people become more efficient."
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StarsOfCCTV posted...

I am always late for work, take 20 sick days a year and work badly in a team.

Youre hired
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I work with kids, so my response was that I sometimes get nervous when talking to parents about behavior issues, since they often come in angry and defensive. But then I turn it around and say that talking to them usually helps build bridges to work with them in the future.

The trick is giving examples of how you're already improving on your weakness; whatever it is.

Say nothing, take out a small index card from my pocket and slide it across the table that reads "I'm too overprepared"

Really though my honest answer is I'm bad at teaching others without some sort of organizational framework in place. I'm pretty gifted at learning shit quick but unless I'm incredibly proficient with years of experience I may have trouble conveying that knowledge to others.

I'm human
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Seeing as I'm an attorney, if I'm ever asked this question in an interview I walk the fuck out. Any law firm that would ask useless questions like that isn't even worth the time I'd spend for the interview.
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When learning things at a job at first, I like to ask questions that might seem repetitive. I'd rather be a little annoying with questions and get the task done correctly than assume what to do and mess something up.
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I think they just wanna test your bullshitting skills with that question
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Last time I answered this I picked a relatively minor aspect of the job and played dumb "Specific to the post, I'm not hugely experienced in software_package_x but I'm confident I could pick it up quickly."

I got the job.

SSJCAT posted...

I think they just wanna test your bullshitting skills with that question

That's pretty much it. Unless the person asking is HR, then they are legitimately asking because HR is absolutely useless.

SSJCAT posted...

I think they just wanna test your bullshitting skills with that question

Yeah it's just a test of how you respond to being put in a difficult spot (you want to make yourself sound as brilliant as possible in an interview but now you are being asked for something negative).

Pull out a big sign that says FLAW.

"This one"
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I'm in IT so it's easy for me. I say I sometimes will pour far more hours than I need to for a fix when reinstalling or resetting and reconfiguring whatever it is would probably be faster.
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