The interview...

This keeps bugging me.. always... Consider two cases involving two different people, Mr. A and Mr. B

Interview is 3 days away. Mr. A is just too desperate to get a job. He contacts all the seniors he knows and takes fundaes. He now knows everything about the kind of questions that will be asked in the interview and knows exactly what answer he should give. He'll say he's good at programming, sports and all crap when he cupped in "Introduction to C" and can't kick a football properly. He assumes he can handle everything later and he getting the job is most important at that point of time. Enter the interview room.. He bulbs a lot, but ends up answering all questions in the exact way his seniors told him.

Interview is tomorrow. Mr. B gets a nice dress ready. He collects all his certificates. He knows he deserves the job more than anyone else. He has a nice breakfast. He looks at the call letter again to make sure he missed nothing. During the interview, he gives his best.He's very confident. He gives out some 'unchecked' answers that make his case a little weak. When asked some arbit question, he just says "How is this related" instead of giving some crappy answer. He cups when he's asked some silly questions. He gives his opinions, doesn't bother about what the interviewer might think.The interviewer asks him what he thinks about the company, he says it's pretty good but has a lot of negatives and speaks them out.

Now, if you were the interviewer, who would you give the job to? I observe, in most cases, it's Mr. A who gets the job, because he was "prepared" while Mr. B really doesn't bother. Now, I have some doubts here. Sometimes it is very obvious that the guy who's being interviewed was just putting pseud. When a guy speaks honestly without worrying about the result, they don't take him. When a guy just flatters you without any self-respect, says he's just a dork and that job is the greatest thing for his life, says he's been dreaming to get that job and all, he gets it. The guy's homework and cautiosness gains more weightage than his intellect and honesty.

I always thought getting a job is only a small thing and actually working properly to keep the job is more painful. If a guy has to meet a lot of his seniors, tell infinite lies, forget what he is and what he really likes and finally, agrees to become an ass and accepts whatever his boss says, at this small thing, i.e. getting the job, how can he handle the bigger problems? Considering that all his qualifications already speak about him, the interview still gets the best part of people. And people go so far as to get 'trained' to do well in an interview. In one way, I feel that what is seen in an interview is never the personality of the applicant( atleast in most cases) and it is just the talent of some other guy, under whom this guy trained or took fundaes from, that is being shown. If someone really deserves a job, why should he go through all the preparation? Can't he just go there and speak whatever he has in mind and still get the job?