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As someone who hires and interviews a lot of people. This cracked me up. Super accurate
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This made me laugh quite a bit. Probably because how true it is. Then at the end the head liar gets to pick who lied the best out of all the liars. >

"It's me, I'm the head liar, because I say so!" - Recruiter >

Recruiters definitely wouldn't be the head liar though.  They're usually the first and easiest interview, if they interview you at all. >

As a bad liar, this feels accurate. Whenever I had a job interview, I failed. The only way I got my apprenticeship and eventually the job following it was through practical showcasing with an internship and no interview. >

Why do people think you need to lie in an interview? >

"Why do you want to work here" has an expected answer along the lines of "I'm passionate about this greedy corporation and want to be eternally exploited" and the truth of "I need money and you're hiring" is shunned >

Hmm….and here I thought I answered that interview question honestly when I said “I’m passionate about helping people and believe this would be a great place to do so”.
I guess I should have lied and said it was for the money. 
Weird… >

Would you work there for free? No? Then its for the money. Get off your high horse. >

And it's logically/morally inconsistent to enjoy a job and to get paid for that job simultaneously?
Wtf is up with you morons who try to make everything 0% or 100%? >

You talk about logic but dont understand.. Nobody said you couldn't enjoy your job, thats completly irrelevant right now, you are there bc you need money, as we all do, and thats a fact, you wouldn't be there for free.  You said "I guess I should have lied and said it was for the money" the funny part is, its not a lie, you ARE there for the money, and thats the point. So, again, get off your horse and understand what people actually saying and not imagine a scenario where you can think yourself morally superior. >

Only job interviews I’ve ever had job offers from were when I just had a chat. No bullshit and no tell me if a time you saved x from y scenario. 
If you offer me a job, you get what you see. >

People don’t usually flat out lie in interviews. It’s more like a first date, you put your best foot forward and expect the same of them. And most of the rules are the pretty much the same. Don’t badmouth your ex, keep it positive, show what you’re bringing to the table, and always try to keep it moving forward >

It can also depend on the candidate and role.
I've been hired to fix broken processes, not just do whatever the role was.
I was approached for a role once and it was going to entail a lot of professional development for junior people. I gave the recruiter (internal HR person) my salary requirements. I was told they were too high (they weren't - professional development requires a lot of off-the-clock mentoring work, or off-the clock making up for missed productivity while doing all that mentoring). A few weeks later they came back and said they'd like to do the interview. I reminded them of my salary requirements for the role. They agreed.
I did an all-day interview, which included 30 minutes with an executive while we discussed future needs, including professional development as discussed previously.
At the end of the interview an HR person comes in and tells me ... my salary requirements really are too high, always were too high, and gee, would I take less.
That company is now on my "I will never work there, period, regardless of salary" list.
Lying to candidates is a great way to rule out good candidates, and often to rule them out permanently. >

I love this. Because when they ask you why do you want this job? The obvious answer is I need money. You have it and I want it and I’m willing to work for it
But that’s never what we say. >

'Money' is the answer to: Why do you want A job, not This job. Pretty much all jobs reward you with money, so usually it's not the reason you chose this specific job. There's always a better paying job that you could apply to. >

Maybe there’s better jobs to apply to, maybe not. When somebody’s unemployed for a long period of time, and they need money, they’ll take any job that will take them for the most part
And mostly people work for money in terms of that’s their motivation. It is not so much because they love working if they could have the money and not work most people would do that. >

Yes, people are motivated to work for money, in this scenario they have already decided they want to work over not working, it's a different decision now. Why do they want to be programmers instead of salespeople? Or the other way round, why do they have a preference for working with people rather than with numbers? They could make loads in both careers and yet they chose one thing over another - there had to be a reason for that. My argument is the decision whether to make money comes before the decision how to make money, when you're in front of a recruiter it's that second decision point they are referring to by asking "Why do you want to work for us?".