When I got interviewed for my job at TheLADbible, I went in pretty confident because the guy doing the interviews had already told me he was keen to make me a part of the team.
Naturally, I went in there with my chest puffed out, my shoes shining and so much knowledge on the company stored in my few brain cells, I couldn't not ace the interview.
As it happened, I did get the job and they've regretted their decision every day for the past 18 months.
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Thankfully for me, the questions they asked were very much answerable and things I'd spoken passionately about before in a hundred other job interviews where I'd eventually been rejected.
Drew Houston. Credit: Getty
Had they asked me the questions that Drew Houston, the 33-year-old billionaire founder of Dropbox, likes to ask, it might have been a slightly different story.
Speaking to the New York Times, Houston claimed his favourite five questions to ask a potential employee were as follows:
- Who is the best in the world at what you do?
- Who are your influences?
- What have you learned in the last year?
- If you were able to sit yourself down ten years ago, what advice would you have given your younger self?
- What are the most important lessons you've taken away?
My answers would have been:
- I am.
- Your mum.
- Even when Spurs are really good, we're still not as good as Arsenal.
- Your haircut is terrible and you will regret everything you think you like about yourself. Change it immediately!
- A girl I hadn't spoken to for the entirety of secondary school wrote in my yearbook, 'Don't Change 4 No1 x', and I really took that to heart
Thankfully I'm not going to work for Dropbox or I'd be fucked. Anyway, Houston said he likes to ask those questions because:
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"I'm drawn to people who really love their craft and treat it like a craft, and are always trying to be better and are obsessed with what separates great from good."
Fair enough, I'd never get a fucking job with this guy.
Words by George Pavlou
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