{"id":6540,"date":"2025-07-17T18:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6540"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:51:14","slug":"interview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/07\/17\/interview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cWhy do you want to work here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been warned about this, the stupidest, trickiest interview question. Don\u2019t say you, like all job seekers, need a paycheck to pay the rent. They don\u2019t want reality, they want flattery. But don\u2019t get personal. Don\u2019t say it\u2019s because the interviewer is charming. It must be something you like about the company, and it must be believable.<\/p>\n<p>Easy! I give her the real reason I\u2019m attracted to this place. The building is right next to a bus stop, so I won\u2019t have to walk far in bad weather.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t get the job.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor R.K. West<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy do you want to work here?\u201d I\u2019ve been warned about this, the stupidest, trickiest interview question. Don\u2019t say you, like all job seekers, need a paycheck to pay the rent. They don\u2019t want reality, they want flattery. But don\u2019t get personal. Don\u2019t say it\u2019s because the interviewer is charming. It must be something you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2752,2695,341,13447,10292,13445,7430,589,13446,3819,13444,1774,5855,951,1353],"class_list":["post-6540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-building","tag-bus-stop","tag-company","tag-flattery","tag-interview","tag-interview-question","tag-interviewer","tag-job","tag-job-seeker","tag-paycheck","tag-r-k-west","tag-reality","tag-reason","tag-rent","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6541,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions\/6541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}