The two questions I ask every interviewer
The &quot;good fit&quot; sent shivers through my spine!<p>I&#x27;m a bit of an odd ball in terms of background, and in my early 20&#x27;s I interviewed for really interesting jobs at really interesting companies (Intel, oracle, Digital, and some more). Every single time the tech staff I would have worked with finished the interviews by saying &quot;You just need one last interview with HR, it will be nothing, looking forward to work with you!&quot;.<p>And every single time the answer from HR was that &quot; I would not fit in&quot;.<p>After 4 or 5 companies turning  me down I thought fuck this, I don&#x27;t want to fit in, I want to produce good quality work and make customers happy, and started to look exclusively for contracts. Thirty years later, I&#x27;m still contracting, every single of my customers has been very happy with my work.<p>Funnily enough, nobody tried to hire me as an employee in those 30 years! And they were right, I&#x27;d probably wouldn&#x27;t fit in. I don&#x27;t accept status quo, I don&#x27;t buy in cargo cult, I&#x27;m not interested in coming in to wait for the hours to go by.<p>Remember, &quot;fitting in&quot; is not necessarily a good thing. People hire me because I don&#x27;t.