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Emma Burleigh

Shocked Zillow CEO says even senior hires don’t do their homework for interviews: ‘They’re asking pretty basic questions that you could answer in 10 minutes on Google’

Hiring manager interviews applicant (Credit: Dimensions/Getty Images)

Young, fresh-faced professionals may have a reputation for flubbing their job interviews, but even senior talent can mess up their chances at the very start. Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman revealed that some C-suite candidates make a serious misstep when it comes to a basic interview expectation: actually looking into the company that they’re applying to. 

“I’m mostly talking to executive hires at this point. An obvious red flag is if they haven’t done their homework, which still kind of surprises me,” Wacksman told CNBC’s Make It in a recent interview. 

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