Originally Posted by
Meme In Command
Because if I'm an interviewer looking to find and weed out the A-holes with fragile egos, this is an easy way to find them. And chill conversation allows the people easily hide their true personalities and save face. Most people can slap a smile on and pretend to be agreeable for an hour or two. Throw in a stressful question or a little attitude and it becomes harder for the untrained actor to act. A bit more of your true self comes out. It's not perfect, but it works.
How else would you catch an individual with a stellar resume on paper but a horrendous attitude that creates a toxic flight deck?
I tend to assume that are other ways to do that, without going toxic out of the gate with all of the normal candidates that you actually intend to hire. That seems like 1980's era stuff.
Also at this point anyone applying to a major should understand the good cop/bad cop and similar games. If you're toxic but good at faking it for recruiters and bosses, you can probably bite your tongue and play the interview game for 30 minutes. Unless you're completely unhinged, but that's got to be rare for legacy applicants.
But not my circus or monkeys.