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> Questions are often under specified for exactly this reason: to test ability to ask questions when necessary. Unless you deviate from the script the [incompe

> Questions are often under specified for exactly this reason: to test ability to ask questions when necessary. Unless you deviate from the script the [incompetent] interviewer expect, in which case, you are toasted.

amarkov 9y ago
If you can't make yourself understood to the average engineer at a company, I think it's fair to say there's not a good fit between you and the company.
- alacombe 9y ago
  s/engineers/managers/... Who probably ended up there to limit their collateral damage to the company, ie. followed the Peter principle.
  - khedoros1 9y ago
    I'd say that if you're in a technical interview with a non-technical manager, you may've chosen the wrong company to interview with. And if it's a non-technical portion of the interview and you have trouble making yourself understood (to a manager), you're back to the "it's not a good fit" conclusion.
    - alacombe 9y ago
      It was definitively the "technical interview with a non-technical manager", and yes, I do agree with you, but it's difficult to judge companies beforehand.
      - khedoros1 9y ago
        Fair enough; unfortunate that they put you in that situation.