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Culture begins at the front door, corporate or personal.

I would expect absolute sincerity from pilot or a doctor during the interview, including history of mental health and professional mistakes. Authority over lives of people must come with full transparency. If you are caught lying or misrepresenting your experience and skills, not only you would lose your job, you should be blacklisted from occupation as well.

In every skill, everyone benefits from honesty, both employers and employees. But I am aware this is a minority view.

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Again, while I respect that that is your view of sincerity, I don't agree, and I'm not talking about lying, which is obviously inappropriate. Framing is not the same as lying (though taken to an extreme it becomes a lie of omission). There's also just a misunderstanding of what is being asked by questions like "what's your biggest weakness?" Language can be ambiguous, just because a very literal and extreme interpretation of a question exists doesn't mean that is what is being asked.

I don't think we're going to bridge this gap but I also don't think that's really necessary. People have different values and it is what it is.

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Fair enough. I appreciate your civility.
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