Interviewed Again

"Somewhere in Dante's inferno, in an annexe by Judas Iscariot, there's a Human Resources department."

Joe did 4 interviews last week which means a little over 9 hours of his life with human resource professionals. Some of the questions were really strange: "What's your favourite television programme?" or "Do you like washing your car?"

Almost everyone uses interviews but there's lots of evidence that they're not reliable. Joe thinks interviews are best understood anthropologically. What they are testing is willingness to submit to the employer's culture.