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OP here Actually, I had drafted "Horror story 4: Candidate was rejected because he was better than the interviewer" but I thought it is too complex to be inclu
by s3nnyy 9y ago
OP here
Actually, I had drafted "Horror story 4: Candidate was rejected because he was better than the interviewer" but I thought it is too complex to be included. I might write a whole blog post about it. Thanks so much for linking to the paper.
- s3nnyy 9y agoJust included fourth story in the original post but will write an extensive thing about this topic.
- zootam 9y agoreally cool to see live updates like this. thanks for the good stories.
- SilasX 9y agoThere’s the related “interviewer is fundamentally wrong and unable to see it”: http://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1ilh7o/what_to_do_technical_interview_where_interviewer/ http://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1ilh7o/wh... He didn’t even understand the question “what would you have to see to convince you that you’re wrong?” meaning he wouldn’t even be able to recover from the error!
- akhilcacharya 9y agoI once had an interviewer tell me you can't implement paint-fill with a DFS. I was about to argue but ended up just using a BFS. Got the job at least.