More generally, any criteria on your rubric you don't share explicitly with candidates tests weakly for the criteria and strongly for "does the candidate possess social technology to access the interview rubric prior to the interview."
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Sometimes that social technology is, for lack of a better word, "interviews well." More perniciously, that social technology can be "convince a current or former employee to straight-up tell them what secret passwords will be asked for."
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Returning to the question of performative enthusiasm, even if you're entirely onboard with looking for it in the abstract, you might fail to detect the signal from people who do not share performance preferences with your interviewer.
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I am quite capable of geeking out about things. My performance of "geeking out" occupies a particular range of behaviors which are roughly appropriate for a particular social class / grouping in the US. They're also gendered as heck.
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I am also capable of performing "Japanese salaryman enthusiasm" and if I dialed that to 8 out of 10 almost no US interviewers would score me as passing the enthusiasm hurdle. I'd have to dial it to a parody range for it to be detectable as enthusiasm.
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There are many Japanese salaryman who did not also choose to subclass in American geek, so if you have enthusiasm as a criteria, you're likely to false negative them given interviewer pool. At risk of stating obvious: Japanese salarymen are not the only group this applies to.
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Salaryman enthusiasm? Oh, you know - I'd say almost nothing during the interview. I'd agree with substantially everything you said, mostly monosyllabic answers. I'd nod a bit - not too much - and dial formality to 11. What, Americans do enthusiasm differently? How do you do it?
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I think about this a lot. "You don't sound very enthusiastic about this job?" "To be honest, I'm configuring for sustainability. I'm a solid developer. But passion can be tiring and draining. And I aim to be coding for 30 more years."
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I'm currently looking for a job and I don't have the emotional energy to be enthusiastic about any job I apply for. Even once I get an interview, I'm looking at only a 20% chance of getting the job. If you want enthusiasm, give me a job offer.
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Same. And I’ve come from an agency where I had to get enthusiastic about any and every client I worked on. Things grow you. It confuses people in SF that you’re not single-mindedly enthusiastic.
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