Reply to: What is your greatest weakness?

[eek]

My greatest weakness has to be the fairer sex.
My life at present would fill up a week long special on Jeremy Kyle.

Do tell. The combined effort of the rest of CUK would fill up at most 2 seconds of the researcher's time prior to him rejecting us.

[rhubarb]

My greatest weakness has to be the fairer sex.
My life at present would fill up a week long special on Jeremy Kyle.

[Old Greg]

Fair enough. At least you tried.

And she's kept her binoculars on just in case.

[doomage]

<binoculars on>

No still can't see it

</binoculars on>

Fair enough. At least you tried.

[Durbs]

Have been asked this a number of times, always seems to be by a young HR lackey who is sitting in on the interview. I normally cringe inside and give the generic; I [am a perfectionist]/[take my work home with me]/[am too nice] etc etc. One time I answered "I struggle getting out of bed in the mornings, am a nighttime person and am no good at early morning starts". The HR lass never missed a beat, just nodded seriously and noted it down.

I peaked a bit early there, normally wait at least a week into a contract before starting to roll in at 10.

[darrenb]

Any interviewer who asks negative questions is a poor interviewer, because they are giving a bad first impression of the company.

A really good candidate will have options, and may decide to avoid the company altogether... leaving the company blessed with people who can talk until dusk about their weaknesses and so forth.

[alreadypacked]

I take it your weakness is a fondness for cats? Or the inability to process puerile humour?

<binoculars on>

No still can't see it

</binoculars on>

[oscarose]

Women Cat Lovers May End Up Killing Themselves

[sasguru]

My biggest weakness - erm, probably my inability to be modest about my many talents.

[Gentile]

I replied to that one that my previous team would describe me as being very fussy. The interviewer smiled and asked whether that was really a strength? I replied that it depended whether you were a member of my team who wanted to put an incorrectly researched code solution back into source control.

I'm getting more behind using this question in interviews all the time.

[Mich the Tester]

I have an attitude.
You have a problem.

[MyUserName]

I replied to that one that my previous team would describe me as being very fussy. The interviewer smiled and asked whether that was really a strength? I replied that it depended whether you were a member of my team who wanted to put an incorrectly researched code solution back into source control.

[NotAllThere]

---ahem---

If it ain't baroque, don't fix it.

[Gentile]

Not much use for modern databases?

No, that Baroque Technical Architect they used as a consultant led them up the garden path.

[Gentile]

That's a weakness.



Actually I like cats.