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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Real talk from an F500 employee.  There are no acceptable options. Anything you mention can be held against you.  Including failing to mention a real weakness or mentioning you're working on a skill deficit.

My work has a "talk about a time when you failed" question.  I've asked successful people at my work how they've answered these questions.  Most of their examples that they think are so truthful are basically about inability to successfully predict future events.

Can you identify a professional knowledge gap you had and talk about how you are remedying it?  Or say you're an introvert at heart but working on remedying it?

Perfectionism actually used to be a recommended answer in the 1980s.  Because it implied you would be detail-oriented.  So it used to be a fake weakness that would help your candidacy.  We are living in the fail fast and minimum viable product era now.  Don't mention it.[/quote]

Damn, what's wrong with being an introvert?[/quote]

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