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S3E6: The Iced Coffee Problem (and what it says about culture)

Were you online enough this week? If not, here’s what you missed:

A recruiter posted that bringing an iced coffee to an interview is unprofessional and would probably cost a candidate the job.

The internet lost it.

I had to ruin my own TikTok algorithm just to catch up on the discourse, and you might not like my take: the recruiter isn't wrong.

In this week’s episode we're breaking down:

The three things that actually drive a hiring decision, and why only one of them is in the candidate's control on interview day

Why "unprofessional" is a culture-specific judgment, not an objective fact, and…

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