# The Interviewer Wanted Loyalty. He Was Already Planning to Leave.

**[TRUE STORY]** — by Candidate · via r/interviews

The interview had been going normally until the interviewer explained what the company did not want: someone who would use them as a stepping stone and jump ship after four or five months of training.

He had a graduate degree and a plan. He was, in fact, using them as a stepping stone, and he would have jumped the moment something better appeared. The question was not whether he would say that. It was what a person was supposed to say.

He did not have an answer, and wrote that he still did not. The honest response would end the interview. The dishonest one is what the question is designed to elicit. Both of them know it. The company asks anyway, because the alternative is admitting that four or five months of training is the entire offer — and that the person receiving it is expected to pretend otherwise.

*Source: [r/interviews · viral post](https://www.reddit.com/r/interviews/comments/1xaj016/interview_statement_that_stumped_me_today/)*
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