Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve done a number of interviews in my career. You don’t have to be a genius to see through the candidates who play this game where they tell you a perfectly sanitized, idyllic response that they’ve calculated as the optimal phrasing that you want to hear. A lot of applicants do it. The skill of interviewing is to get a sense of what the true situation is underneath what the candidate is saying with their words. Thes…
I suspect a lot of interviewers think it is a good thing when someone repeats those lines. That is they are not trying to get under the words.
the monkey says and does what we want it to do -- why go deeper?