Career Help and Advice

I personally do not think that approach has any place in hiring. To actually look for a reason. People during interviews are nervous, or at least should be nervous if they are normal. I am a completely different person in an interview. Nothing like I am normally. The person interviewing should be trying to find positive ways to get the most of the candidate.

There are lots of reasons to not hire someone that are plainly obvious. 1) they lied on their resume, 2) they do not want to approach things the manager wants to do (ie a Windows guy refusing to use Linux), 3) they show up late, not dressed up, with no good reason, 3) they have anger issues.

And a few others I'm sure.

But going into minutia about a person's personality, or work history when they can easily learn new things, and when they never had the opportunity to learn how that organization works just because they never worked for that type of organization, is unnecessary, IMO, to the point where the manager should spend the whole interview looking for reasons not to hire someone. That's just not normal, IMO. If the manager intendeds to take that approach, I do not think I would want to work in such an inflexible environment anyway.

But I appreciate your ability to be honest about it.