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No, they're looking for concrete evidence of having and being able to apply a well-defined set of skills. One of the things you learn pretty fast as an intervi
by jpatokal 8y ago
No, they're looking for concrete evidence of having and being able to apply a well-defined set of skills.
One of the things you learn pretty fast as an interviewer is that charisma and attempts to pitch yourself tend to correlate poorly with aptitude, and an interview that focuses solely on predefined technical questions is by design impervious to yes men.
- raverbashing 8y ago> that focuses solely on predefined technical questions Unless you have recruiters (or even engineers) ignoring your answer because it doesn't match exactly to what you were expecting. And it's not impervious to yes men, you can have a technical savant and a yes man at the same time.
- whitexn--g28h 8y agoI usually just blaze through the technical questions, FizzBuzz takes 1-2 minutes, 2-SUM maybe 5 minutes. Rarely do they have more than 15 minutes of technical questions unless you have problems with how fast you can write on a board. I've also asked to skip an easy question so that I would have more time for the audition phase.
- barkingtoad 8y agoSo: if you are both skilled at tech AND at working with people, and you're shooting for a tech job with an experienced interviewer... BE MORE AWKWARD!