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3w ago

Job Interview Question for Team Lead Position

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3w ago

Job Interview Question for Team Lead Position

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Correct answer: Lay off everyone. The new project will be coded solely by AI. 💯 hired.
- Not hired at all, but feedback added to database for said AI project that will envelop all roles therein.

Fire the asshole, split their work with the remaining 2 employees. Give yourself a raise.
- The asshole sounds like the only one competent or doing the work
  
  That's why they pay me the big bucks.

I think the correct answer is:
So you don’t want to hire me for my leadership skills you just want me to be the face of your decisions? You’ve already decided the asshole needs to move first, why not just move him yourself?

The not alone condition does not apply if manager is with them
take asshole
take bore, but return with asshole
take idiot
take asshole.
- I love this idea of the asshole getting transferred to a new project, removed from said project shortly after, only to be put back on the project after another short period.
  Haha! Take that, asshole!

This is simple.
Take the bore.
- By the horns?
  
  You prefer another way?
- But if this kills you it will lead to the fall of Westeros.

So, which of the three is the Team Lead?
- Usually the asshole.
  
  Ouch
  But fair
  
  I'd have gone with the idiot
- A team lead is an idiot, an asshole, and a bore all wrapped up in one. Source: I'm a team lead.

This is just the hen, fox and grain puzzle
- It's not, the way it's written, the asshole cannot coexist with either the bore or the idiot, which is pretty accurate.
  
  The hen can't be alone with the fox or the grain, so it's still the same.
- No, it's the wolf, cabbage and goat puzzle.

I leave interview because in this question I'm not the team lead but just tool that take orders.
- I have some news for you.
  
  That we're billionaires puppets, enslaved by country to work until death or something new ?
  
  Sweet summer child still thinks management isn't just an RA for a warren on the brink of cannibalism.

Trick question! IATA: IDGAF about your rules about who can work with who.
That’s right! I said “who” not “whom”! I don’t care about your grammar rules either: like putting punctuation inside quotations. Or starting a sentence with a conjunction.
Did I get the job?
- no you didn't get the job
  but the CEO position is yours if you want
- Honestly this is the most sane take. If the asshole can't work with 2/3 of the team then they need to GTFO. I don't have the time or mental bandwidth to deal with shit like that.
  Source: director of both the IT and software departments

simple. fire the asshole.
- Somebody get this man an MBA
  
  That's assuming the idiot in this isn't the interviewee.

I will migrate myself directly into a new company. Byeeeeeee

rsync -r --remove-source-file or mv in a loop.

I'm glad companies are asking real world questions instead of the silly made up ones

bloodbath.

I leave them all behind

The solution is asshole first, bore second, idiot last.
- In this scenario, you probably wouldn't want the idiot to be the last to leave the old project. Leave the bore for last, to wrap it up. Also, introducing the bore last to the new project allows the whole team to learn from the idiot's mistakes, for which the asshole is well aware of by that time.

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