Colleagues and bosses are counterparties rather than friends, and an interviewer being friendly is part of a transaction.

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• A hiring loop should have few, well-calibrated interviewers rather than many, because extra interviewers add veto points instead of judgement. CMCharity Majors17 Dec 2024
• Interviewers should hear nothing about a candidate beforehand and should not compare notes until each has decided independently. JSJoel Spolsky25 Oct 2006
• A career is not built by searching for jobs but by accumulating a reputation slowly, so that when you become available the opportunities come to you. TPThuan Pham1 Apr 2026
• Every talk you give is a job interview, because an audience is reading what you are as much as what you are saying. KHKelsey Hightower3 Jun 2026
• A CEO cannot be a calibrated interviewer for every role, so insisting on interviewing every candidate makes hiring worse rather than better. CMCharity Majors17 Dec 2024

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