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Indeed. When I was interviewing candidates, one of my goals was to get the candidate to respond along the lines of "I don't know.", to which I would follow up w
by hermitdev 10y ago
Indeed. When I was interviewing candidates, one of my goals was to get the candidate to respond along the lines of "I don't know.", to which I would follow up with, how would you find out? No engineer knows everything. I also don't want a candidate that is going to try and bullshit me. Admit to me you don't know, but then tell me how you would rectify that. Google SO, MSDN, man pages, whatever, I don't care so long as you can admit you don't know and have an idea about how to correct that.
Personally, I'm doing mostly Python & C++ development at my new job (4 months in) after not using either for 2 years plus. I'm mostly fine with syntax for both, but constantly have my browser open for documentation, mostly for library related info.
- djsumdog 10y agoIt's like that old CS professor joke, "I know everything, just not all at once. It's a virtual memory problem."
- fanf2 10y agoIn the interview for my first job after university I was asked a Unix trivia question. I said "Oh, I dunno... Most of my Unix knowledge is swapped out to the man pages!"