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You definitely should NOT do this. As the interviewee, dodging a question with a fake trite answer because you think it's dumb is a great way to signal that you're abnormally uncoo…

> That is a carefully rehearsed answer making the weakness look fixable instead of being serious weakness. First, there's absolutely nothing wrong with rehearsing your answers to c…

I think it's confirmation bias. If you lack confidence but consider yourself nice and caring, then you'll be more on the look out for instances of women saying that's what they wan…

The stereotypical rehearsed answer is the Michael Scott one, where you dodge the question by actually naming a strength and pretending it's a weakness. In my experience working at …

Ignore barry-cotter. People do expect you to be honest. It's not a trick question, and there is no clandestine cabal of hiring managers who only want to hire people who play a secr…

In my experience they don't. They want to know if you're a reasonable, self-aware person who can communicate effectively. Let's say you name a reasonable weakness that can easily b…

There's so much cynicism from a subset of the HN crowd every time something interview-related like this is posted. Some of that cynicism is warranted, sure, but not in this case. I…