Moral Question about a Job Interview

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I am asking because I struggle with scrupulosity.

A friend of mine has already interviewed and accepted a job at a company I am about to interview for. While discussing the company he begins to tell me what his interview was like. I am now worried that I am cheating on this job interview because he gave me information about what they might ask about during the interview. Part of this information included a technical task he was asked to perform. I knew how to do this task prior to the interview. Am I cheating?

I realize I am probably worrying about nothing but I want to make sure.
 
I don’t think that is cheating. You are going to the interview better informed than the average person, that’s all.
 
You are allowed to do research on a company, and you’re allowed to ask questions to friends who work or have worked there.

I would not see this as cheating.

Be at peace! :pray:t2:
 
I think it depends on whether your friend knew you were competing with him for the job?
 
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It is an inquiry. He wasn’t told, to not reveal what his interview involved.
Breathing is not a sin. (Oversimplifying our internal judgements of sin). We really get intense. Others, not as intense, as they should.
In Christs love
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ratio1 said:
I think it depends on whether your friend knew you were competing with him for the job?
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I think you misread the question (or I did.) He and his friend weren’t competing for the same vacancy. His friend did an earlier interview, got a job, and then gave him advance information on the interview process. Two separate vacancies.

Anyway, I think you’re fine ethically unless the interview process explicitly told you that you weren’t to talk to anyone about the process. Otherwise, I say relax.
 
Oops sorry. I did misread the question.
Yes that should be fine. I wouldn’t worry about it.
 
You can have all the right answers but if you don’t have the knowledge, skills and abilities they won’t select you. Therefore, I don’t think knowing the types of questions or a task they have you perform is cheating.
 
Once upon a time, I was in a leadership position in my hobby. It was our job to put in local leadership at lower levels. Multiple individuals/couples would compete for local leadership, and we’d interview them to see who was “right” for the job.

Fast-forward a couple of years. I had cycled out of my office, but others continued to compete for local leadership as it came available. A friend of mine talked to me about it, and I helped him prepare by giving him the questions that we had asked our candidates. And it was very helpful, because it helped him think about things that he hadn’t really considered. There was no guarantee that any of our questions would be asked by the current upper leadership… but having those questions in advance definitely helped him be a better-prepared candidate by considering a wider range of motivations, what-would-you-do-in-this-scenarios, what-do-you-think-about-this-subject, and so on.

Was it cheating? No. I-- and others in my situation-- would have helped anyone who would have asked. He was smart enough to ask for help, and smart enough to take my advice into account, and he got the position.

The same thing is true for your job situation. There’s no guarantee that you’re going to be called on to do the same thing. But knowing that, out of the infinite possibilities of various things you may be asked, you may be asked to prove your skills by performing a technical task, or answering a certain question, or discussing a certain thing— that helps you be prepared for the possibilities, and variations thereof. And that makes you a well-rounded candidate, because you’re prepared for the possibility, but it does not make you a cheater, because you’re not faking a skillset you don’t actually possess.
 
Not a problem at all. Many types of interviews, most focus on your interactions with thr interviewer or team and reactions to situations. Specific task performance may be just that,or to get insight on skills just tangentially related to the task.
 
Still, you could cover your bases by simply stating your friend has also been interviewed there.
 
Look, from a fellow scrupulous, asking these kinds of questions sucks. There are people, who unintentionally, will feed the beast that eats us up. Ask yourself, did you openly ask your friend to tell you these things or did he just start doing it?

Also, would the company even mind? Like, just because they asked him a set of questions or because they gave him a certain task does not mean you’ll get the same yourself. When I am interviewing for a job, I google interview questions and such to prepare. Ultimately if you can do the job, if you answer with your own ability and didn’t purposely do something the company is against, then you are fine. Ask yer priest tho 😉! Also read the Ten Commandments for the scrupulous if you haven’t yet!
 
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