{"id":957384,"date":"2025-08-25T11:39:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957384"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:09:01","slug":"microsoft-founder-bill-gates-answer-to-compulsory-interview-question-what-are-your-salary-expectations-for-this-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/25\/microsoft-founder-bill-gates-answer-to-compulsory-interview-question-what-are-your-salary-expectations-for-this-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft founder Bill Gates&#8217; answer to &#8216;compulsory&#8217; interview question: What are your salary expectations for this job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder shared a fresh perspective on how can one tackle the tricky and most feared job interview questions: &#8220;What are your salary expectations for this job?\u201d. Instead of giving a specific number, Gates moved the conversation towards long-term vision. He also advised to focus on stock options and not just think about immediate cash. In a 2020 mock interview with NBA star Stephen Curry, Gates talked about various topics which play an important role during a job interview.<\/p>\n<p>Gates\u2019 Response: A mix of modesty and strategy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder shared a fresh perspective on how can one tackle the tricky and most feared job interview questions: &#8220;What are your salary expectations for this job?\u201d. Instead of giving a specific number, Gates moved the conversation towards long-term vision. He also advised to focus on stock options and not just think about immediate cash. In a 2020 mock interview with NBA star Stephen Curry, Gates talked about various topics which play an important role during a job interview. Gates\u2019 Response: A mix of modesty and strategy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}