Why this CEO invites interviewees out for dinner

If you land an interview at email marketing service MailChimp, it likely won't be at the Atlanta-based company's headquarters.

CEO Ben Chestnut likes to take potential employees out to eat.

"When I interview, it's usually over a dinner. I can't really conduct an effective interview in my office over 30 minutes. I have to take a long time to get to know people," Mr. Chestnut told The New York Times.

If you make it to an upper-level interview, be prepared to answer one question: "Why?"

"I want to see if they're passionate enough to push back. I want to see if they have a philosophy behind what they do," Mr. Chestnut said. "I'll just keep asking why, why, why until I get to their core philosophy on whatever it is that they're passionate about."

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