Ex-Google recruiter shares the no.1 thing to avoid in job interviews: 'It’s a massive red flag’

Ask Nolan Church, CEO of Continuum and former recruiter with Google and DoorDash, about the first thing to not do during a job interview and he said candidates not doing their homework about the company and role they are interviewing for is at the top of the list.

Church said that some interviewees show up “having done very little homework". They won’t know about the company, the role, or the interviewers they’re speaking with. “It’s just a massive red flag to me,” he told CNBC Make It.

Among his other red flags is when an interviewee puts on an act during the interview. “You can clearly tell they’ve been rehearsing the same answers over and over again,” the former Google recruiter said. “They say a lot of words but nothing meaningful.”

Talking about the kind of candidates that have impressed Church, he shared there’s one tactic that always succeeds. “The best candidates that I meet, I’m always learning something from them,” he told CNBC Make It. “And those are the people that I want to work with.”