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  • As you get more and more specialized, this starts to change. If my expertise is selling matts for large cranes, then there are like 3 companies that do that. The companies themselves are no special, but your expertise in that area does have a special alignment with what that company wants to do.

    Non-specialized positions, again, make this question worthless.


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    1 year ago

    I think good answers, in this case, are more than "I'm passionate about x". A specific scenario where you were really interested in a specific scientific question related to the job at hand would be much better. Again, useful if you're going to be an engineer at Tesla, not useful for a cashier at Taco Bell.


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    As I say every time I see this joke, it's a stupid question when McDonald's asks it, but a good when when more advanced or complex jobs ask it. A person who is passionate about science is a better candidate for a job at an engineering firm than someone who isn't. Plus, the question, done right, is asking "why this specific company" rather than why do you want any job. "Why FLIR instead of Tesla?" is a very different question than "why McDonald's instead of Burger King".







  • In supporting trump, they support someone who would gladly take that role if he could. I agree.

    But the contradiction is deep within themselves not just held for outsiders to see. They aren't lying when they say they support democracy and say they support trump at the same time. They're contradicting themselves, but they aren't lying. I don't know why that happens, but I guess they have been deceived.

    But it's important to have that distinction, otherwise we dehumanize millions of people, and destroy hope of showing them the truth.


  • I can agree that Trump and those like him are moving towards that kind of power structure.

    And yes that means that those who support trump and deny that want a dictatorship and at some level contradicting themselves.

    But that is a different thing tham actually wanting a dictatorship.

    Misrepresenting people will get us no where. It will dehumanize those we disagree with and will create enemies from those who could be allies.