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Eh, sounds like smart preparation to play the game on its terms. Did those questions end up being seriously relevant to the work? If so, then you prepared yours
by shoover 9y ago
Eh, sounds like smart preparation to play the game on its terms. Did those questions end up being seriously relevant to the work? If so, then you prepared yourself better for the job by learning the answers. If not, well, then maybe it's the interviewers who weren't so honest.
- commandlinefan 9y ago> Did those questions end up being seriously relevant to the work? Oh, God no. I've never been asked a question in a job interview that was in any way relevant to the work I actually ended up doing.
- retbull 9y agoOnly one question has ever been relevant for me. It was about map reduce for locations and the job was using map reduce on location data...
- commandlinefan 9y agoAt the job I have now, they spent the whole interview session asking about Python, Scala, machine learning, natural language processing, Spark and Hadoop clustering. I've been doing Angular 2 front-end work since I started.