Why do you want to work for us? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Ralph Jones
Every day millions of people ask Google life’s most difficult questions. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries
Of all the questions flung your way during the stultifying horror that is a job interview, the question whose premise most seductively invites you to lie is: “Why do you want to work for us?” The question bats its eyelids as soft jazz filters in from the background. “You can be whoever you want,” it whispers. “So who you gonna be?”
Up to this point your attempts to bullshit would have been ill-advised in the extreme: tell an interviewer you have a master’s’?”
