Warren Parad
1 min readNov 19, 2022

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These questions won't work for most candidates. And that's because people don't know where they are at. Most people will want to find themselves in the middle of the spectrum believing that the extremes are wrong.

What's worse, is that these don't require the candidate to talk about how they will actually act when the situation comes up for real.

Also depending on the person you have another problem, you need to create a real situation to avoid the pitfall of creating an arbitrary spectrum by surfacing a false dichotomy. Looking at the scalar example questions in this post, they throw meaningless, and almost certainly incorrect, statements to justify the perspective of the extremes. They all beg the question: Do engineers that always say estimate correctly? Are enterprises well structured?

First decide what information you want to know, then create the question. That question might a question about a spectrum, but it's far easier to talk about the merits of a specific question than a type of question.

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Warren Parad
Warren Parad

Written by Warren Parad

CTO and Founder Authress, Complete Auth for B2B.

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