“Harry Potter books.” She’s in her mid-30s.
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Not uncommon.
It is scary to see how uninformed and uneducated our up and coming supposedly best and brightest are.
This is so true. This young woman said several things in her interview that I would have found better ways to phrase, even if I felt the overwhelming need to unburden myself of that information. We asked her to describe a time she had received difficult feedback from a supervisor and how she handled it. I thought she was going to start crying, right there in the interview. She mentioned that a supervisor had criticized the quality of her writing (legal briefs) and wanted her to put more research into it. She actually said she thought the supervisor was toxic, so she quit the job over that feedback. We asked her to describe a time she failed to fulfill a commitment, and she blamed the customer for her failure. Her answer came down to "I didn't get it done, but it was HIS fault." Did I mention we hired somebody else? She had been our front runner candidate until the second round of interviews, looked decent on paper, but push a little, and it all fell apart!