Watch: Bill Gates Tackles Some Of The Most Common Job Interview Questions
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To be interviewed by Bill Gates would be a dream for many, albeit an unnerving one. This begs the question: what would his dream job candidate be like?
The Microsoft co-founder recently sat down with NBA star Stephen Curry for the latter’s new YouTube series, State of Inspiration, and answered three common job interview questions in the shoes of a junior software engineer. These comprise “Why should you hire you?” “How do you define your strengths and weaknesses and how would incorporate them into a team?” and “What are your salary expectations for this job?”
Unsurprisingly, he handled them with grace and tact. As observed by Carmine Gallo, senior contributor in leadership strategy at Forbes, Gates’ responses were convincingly layered with rationalizations, sans buzzwords, as to why someone should hire this figurative junior employee.
For instance, he didn’t have to explicitly name “passion” as something he could provide to the company. Instead, he exemplified this drive by describing that he had studied programming “way beyond any classes that I’ve taken,” and that he thought “software is cool.”
As for what his strengths and weaknesses were, Gates jumped straight into his “weakness” of “not [being] somebody who knows a lot about marketing,” before focusing and elaborating on his value-add to the company in the rest of his response. This would imply that he was a software engineer first and foremost, and a very talented one at that.
Each question was answered succinctly and within 30 seconds, which goes to show there’s no need to deliver long-drawn-out statements at a job interview.
[via Forbes, cover image via Frederic Legrand - COMEO / Shutterstock.com]
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