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I don't interview well. Technology for me is exciting because of its potential to bring happiness to people. If someone tells me that the product I am working o
by simula67 10y ago
I don't interview well. Technology for me is exciting because of its potential to bring happiness to people. If someone tells me that the product I am working on has a security issue because it does not follow some the security portions of the RFC correctly, I will be delighted to read it carefully, study arcane encoding algorthms etc and implement code that brings up the compliance to an acceptable level. If you ask me to devise an algorithm to find the longest increasing subsequence in an array of numbers without any context I won't do so well.
Maybe I am conceited, but I can't convince myself I am an inferior programmer because of it. I can make money for your company. I can work well with a diverse of group of people. I take pains to conduct myself with integrity. Shouldn't all that be the central measure of how people are hired ?
- cousin_it 10y agoFor what it's worth, if you were interviewing for a security job and couldn't solve the longest increasing subsequence problem within a minute, I would probably say "no hire". All security folks I know can solve such problems in their sleep, and it seems really important for the job. Or at least you'd have to show your algorithmic skills in some other way, without relying on "business" rhetoric. Does that sound reasonable?
- dclowd9901 10y agoThis is a false correlation. What is it about longest increasing subsequence that is relevant to security? If you can't explain, then it has no relevance and means nothing.
- SamReidHughes 10y agoBeing intelligent enough to solve the problem is what's relevant.
- Faint 10y agoYeah, but how do you measure it objectively?