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Why Hiring is Broken (and How to Fix It) with Expert Interviewers Lorna Erickson & Victoria Gates

February 21, 2025 • School of Hiring

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Hiring is broken. The same outdated interview questions. The same awkward silences. The same hiring managers convinced they’re great interviewers—when in reality, they’re driving top talent away.

In this episode of The School of Hiring, Konstanty Sliwowski sits down with Lorna Erickson and Victoria Gates, co-founders of Expert Interviewers, who have built a following of nearly 200,000 people on TikTok (@expertinterviewers) by exposing the worst hiring practices in brutally honest (and hilarious) ways.

But don’t let the comedy fool you—between the three of us, we’ve conducted over 25,000 interviews. We’ve seen it all:
🚩 The painfully bad interview questions that should have died in the ‘90s
🚩 Interviewer egos that ruin great hiring decisions
🚩 The hiring mistakes companies keep repeating—over and over again

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

🔥 What actually makes a great interviewer (and why most people aren’t as good as they think)
🔥 The biggest hiring mistakes that are costing companies top talent
🔥 The worst interview questions ever asked—why they exist and how to replace them
🔥 How ego in hiring is ruining great hires and what to do about it
🔥 Why AI-led interviews are failing—and what the future of hiring really looks like

This episode will make you laugh, cringe, and rethink everything you know about hiring. If you’ve ever sat through a terrible interview, you’ll feel a little too seen.

Don’t miss this one!

Detailed Show Notes:

🎙️ The State of Interviewing Today

The biggest red flags that reveal an interviewer has no idea what they’re doing
Interview practices that should have died years ago but are still being used today
The real problem with “hiring for culture fit”—and what to do instead

🎙️ Breaking Down Bad Interviews

Ego in hiring—how to spot it and how to fix it
The absolute worst interview questions ever asked (this will hurt)
The one question more hiring managers should be asking

🎙️ The Science of Interviewing

What separates an average interviewer from an exceptional one
Is gut instinct in hiring a superpower or just bias wrapped in confidence?
The biggest hiring myths that companies need to stop believing

🎙️ The Future of Hiring

Will AI-led interviews ever work? Or are they just making hiring worse?
If we could rebuild hiring from scratch, what would it actually look like?

🎙️ Rapid Fire Round (Quick-Hit Hiring Hot Takes)

🔥 Worst interview trend right now?
🔥 Best way to tell if a candidate is bullshitting?
🔥 One thing every hiring manager should stop doing immediately?
🔥 What’s worse: an awkward interview or an interrogation-style one?
🔥 If you weren’t doing this, what would you be doing?

Why You Should Listen

If you’re hiring, being hired, or just want to know why interviewing feels so broken, this episode is packed with insights, laughs, and brutally honest truths about what needs to change in hiring today.

Listen now and learn how to stop making bad hires—and start building better teams.

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