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Maybe that's the case if you want to turn everything into a mind game. You're really taking points away from the company, not the candidate, when you judge them idiotically.

Wait, you suggest that they "swing by the office" instead of just sending an email? This is madness.

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Exactly. That's why I'm saying just be yourself. It's the candidate asking the question who starts the mindgame. So long external validation matters more than inner confidence, I'll always look like a mindgame you can't win. And dropping by the office can seem like madness if you're going down the line of outside validation thinking too far. At the other end of the spectrum, it's recon.

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