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agrees with what the supervisor tells you should be considered
quite good. (And you should be able to use the candidate’s
answer to get a little more information from his ex-boss than
he might have been willing to tell you otherwise.)
A candidate smart enough to discuss an evaluation from
an earlier job, switching to what she did about it and claim-
ing that her current supervisor would, therefore, not con-
sider it a problem any longer. This is a really beautiful answer
from the interviewee’s standpoint because it’s possible that
you can’t really check the initial evaluation, which makes the
rest of the ...