> How exactly would you ask this in an interview setting?
replyYou now know which companies do this.
Every company laying off now has to wear a Scarlett Letter: "we're a layoffs company".
"Why is this role open"?
replyEither they will answer directly with something solid like "We're growing the team" or they will evade it which is still a meaningful answer for you. You could probe further with questions like:
"How has the team's headcount changed over the last 18-24 months?"
Basically you're alluding to 'employee turnover' without saying it.
> How has the team's headcount changed over the last 18-24 months?"
reply“It didn’t change” and it would not be telling much. They are just hiring and firing X amount of people every year.
You know that people just lie regardless of the real intent behind hiring right?
replyThat's not how that works... Please stop being delusional
Naive to think such a question would get anything other than a plausibly ambiguous lie.
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