I am not a fan of using "performative enthusiasm about the job/company" to evaluate interview performance. Many enthusiastic candidates will fail to display it legibly in interview format. Conversely, trivial to "fake it" for 40 minutes if known to be on rubric.
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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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