Comments by "Christian Baune" (@programaths) on "TheDC Shorts" channel.

  1. Also note that journalists do not have a great command of English. For instance, they would say "not true" instead of "false", "incorrect", "misleading", "wrong", "dubious", ... Weirdly enough, they can have a verbal diarrhea when it comes to speak of others. Then the most "descriptive" adjectives and nouns start to be used. Really weird how that works 😉 The good part is that by being able to identify that language, you only need a few words from a journalist to know if he is worthy of the title, which spare a lot of research work. They may adapt to that strategy, but they will probably not as this is their main tool.
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  2. That wasn't even a "smart" own. Elon just asked the most basic thing that is usually easily brushed away: "give me one example". Then the remaining is just playing on coherence. The journalist was incoherent, that's why he was destroyed. It's a bit like a mentally challenged girl we had in the institution. She went to a shop and stole something. When she came back, the educator asked her the remaining money. Because the girl was challenged, she couldn't do calculations, neither make big plans. So, she gave back all the money 😂 So, the educator asked how she got the "cracottes" and the girl explained the whole thing, including how hard it was for her to retain her respiration (she tucked the box under her skirt). Her punishment was to bring the box back. (Which was quite a punishment as the store was at the other side of the village and she would have to explain herself there). She was caught because she wasn't coherent. When I did interview people, coherence was a red flag. I did ask the same questions during the interview, but differently. "How long have you been active professionally ?", "Can we run through your projects, how long did you work here and there ?". Then depending on the number of occupation, you know that most people can be one or two years off. But if the guy is 5 years off, you can show the door. Same with technical competence, you get asked "informally" (do you find PHP easy), more formally "Which PSR did you enact ?" and then tested. If there is a discrepancy between those 🚩🚩 And in general, bad candidate are really good at raising 🚩. The nice things with coherence is that you don't need to be overtly technical. Just need quite some practice and a good working memory and take notes ^^ I did also offer training for interviews and one guy was distributing red flags like crazy, to the point I became really angry at him and asked why tf he was doing that without any real reason. Happens that the guy was just a complete idiot... He got fired from the company. And that's another thing, you try to build a profile, note that the guy is trying to flaunt you, then later on, realize that you totally misinterpret. There was one interview where I had the CEO sitting next to me and I asked the candidate "What is the name of our company?". Because, from all previous answers I gathered, I had the impression he came to the wrong interview or was high. The CEO looked at me like "Did you really ask that ?". And yes, that's a question that is quite insulting and disrespectful. But I had no choice to make progress in the interview, I had to eliminate those possibilities. Another funny things is that too much coherence is also a red flag! We tend to mix things up, forget details and invent some. It's human ^^ Great liars are able to mimic that! Some are caught because they have "perfect stories". Also, firing quick question on incoherent part put such a great burden that you can quickly get to the truth! And that's without even accounting for body language. As an example, when I trained that guy for the interview, the guy slowly turned his head, to the point that after few minutes he was looking on his right and not at me ^^ He was avoiding confrontation, slowly. And this is another thing: let people dig their grave. Don't highlight flaws as you see them, let it build up. Then from "inconsequential" it becomes "determining". But that's hard to do, you need to exert restraint as it's satisfying to get the "got ya". Now, the question is: "Then how much coherence" and the answer is : if you tell the truth, you don't have to care. On top of that, there are socially acceptable lies. If you were unemployed for 2 years and say that you took a rest or used those years to enjoy yourself, you'll not be looked down. Interviewers know it means "unemployed". If you try to cover the gap by saying you did one year more in the two surrounding employment, then 🚩🚩🚩. I have a gap of two year in my CV. Always highlighted it and explained how difficult it was to find a job due to my profile. Actually leveraged the gap ^^ Next time you have a discussion, try to focus on just the coherence and see if you can spot probable lies ^^
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