They Just L-SAT There
(I am looking for a summer job in law school and I apply to an LSAT tutoring company. They give me a Skype interview where I have to go through a practice problem as if I were teaching it to a student.)
Me: “So, do you want me to demonstrate the problem, or go through it in Socratic Method?”
(Socratic Method is where you ask the person questions so that they figure it out themselves.)
Interviewer: “Doesn’t matter to me, man.”
(I go ahead and demonstrate the problem, figuring it is a lot easier than trying to walk the interviewer through it Socratically. After I’m done, the interviewer says:)
Interviewer: “Okay, that was fine, but unfortunately we wanted you to teach it Socratically.”
Me: “Okay, but I asked you specifically at the beginning if you wanted me to, and you said I didn’t need to.”
Interviewer: “Hm… I don’t remember that.”
Me: “Well, do you want me to teach it Socratically now, then?”
Interviewer: “Meh, sure. Go ahead.”
Me: “Okay, so, starting from the beginning, what’s the first thing we need to figure out about the problem?”
Interviewer: “I don’t know.”
Me: *slightly taken aback, I go even simpler* “Okay, so, what information do we know from the problem?”
Interviewer: “I don’t know.”
Me: *getting frustrated* “Okay, starting with the first sentence, what does it tell us?”
Interviewer: “I don’t know.”
Me: “Okay, the first sentence says, ‘[Sentence],’ doesn’t it?”
Interviewer: “I don’t know.”
(The entire rest of the interview proceeded like this, with the interviewer never answering anything other than, ‘I don’t know.’ He made me basically go through the entire problem myself without making any attempt to role-play as a student, meaning that I basically just ended up demonstrating the problem all over again but much slower. I should also note that this was a tutoring position for LSAT, which means that all of the students I would have been tutoring would have at least three years of university behind them. If any of their students were as dumb as the interviewer was playing them to be, they don’t deserve to pass the LSAT.)
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