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just push him when he inevitably gives wishy washy answers to stuff that he doesn't look good on/is a bad fit for

that's all I got. make him dig his own grave as much as possible.

Make him write a sorting algorithm with log(n) time complexity

If you want to go hard, are comfortable with it, and can weaponize your personal experience or identity, take notes of how he doesn't seem to listen to or respect you and afterwards say, "as a [X], he made me uncomfortable".

You might not even have to lie, candidates often do that shit. Especially to femmes. I've helped with interviews and watched candidates listen to a question from a femme interviewer and then proceed to address a masc interviewer as if they had asked it. That kind of stuff.

If you're allowed to ask non-technical questions, you can also ask about how they would resolve an office conflict, or when they've had one in the past. Dudes regularly flunk that question or at least distinguish themselves as less thoughtful than other candidates through their responses. It's actually just a good thing to ask during an interview in general.

For the technical portion, highlight that gulf between what you all are doing and what he's done. Pick out things that the other candidates have that he doesn't and ask questions about it, ideally hard ones that would require experience doing the task. This is not really a particularly unfair way to weed out candidates anyways. Sometimes they might surprise you and give a good answer despite their resume. You'd be banking on them not doing that. At minimum, you're setting up a scenario where if you ask the same questions of all candidates, you'll be able to quantify how much better your choices performed. A particularly good style of question for this is to ask them to demo a design or spec based on a problem description. People with relevant experience will list things they've done before and go into reasonable detail. A candidate that is winging it will usually take longer to come up with a plan and therefore present one that's less fleshed out. IMO this is not a good interview question in general but it's great for biasing against a candidate.

ask him to describe some project. either from a prompt you give "name a difficult project and how you overcame difficulties and conflicts with teammates" or pick one from his resume

then just keep drilling him on the technical details deeper and deeper. e.g. "why did you pick this database schema over this other option?" "why did you decide to index the tables this way?" "why did you pick this db over another one? could you explain all the pros and cons?" "you only considered the amount of features? have you considered i/o speeds at all?"

If your company emphasizes DEI, ask him what he has done at palantir to foster a pro-DEI workplace and how he has helped boost underrepresented minority groups at the company. High chance he hasn't at all

"The company has decided to fundraise for charity. You've been asked to participate on the committee to decide on a charity, which one would you choose?"

Give the libertarian rope to hang himself with. Also gives you an excuse to pry into his politics.

If I was in your shoes - I'd google them and see what comes up. You probably won't find anything incriminating but you'll never know if you don't at least spend a few minutes poking around.

Everybody lies on their resumé. How much is too much is up to debate. I think the average person lies a little but people can get addicted to padding the information to the point they are easily caught lying to the point of termination. And of course - there's a world beyond their business life.

If I found something incriminating - I would "leak" it to my company via email. I'll say it for the thread that if anybody ever does this - cover your tracks carefully. Also - time it well. I would be neutral in the interview. Sometime later (days or weeks?) I'd send the email.

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I bet if you google, search reddit or google reddit you can fin some (very) good ideas: petty revenge, r/PettyRevenge, etc.

"I will draw you, Saruman, as poison is drawn from a wound."

Keep insisting he smells unwashed

You're the one doing the interviews, just make up that he said something racist or whatever verbally during the interview or whatever else that could 'make you feel uncomfortable'. If you're the one doing interviews they probably already trust your judgment, that's why you're being paid to make one. Unless it's for something really specific and he's the only qualified applicant then 'his resume looks great but he creeper me the hell out' works just fine.