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No, I think it’s quite true. My deal is: I’m not going to ask you condescending, useless questions like these, but you gotta know your stuff. Not unreasonable,
by king_magic 8y ago
No, I think it’s quite true. My deal is: I’m not going to ask you condescending, useless questions like these, but you gotta know your stuff. Not unreasonable, IMO.
- thereare5lights 8y agoYou can think it's true all you want. That doesn't make it true. Plenty of people don't know the answers to all those questions and they do great work. Your biases reflect the way you think the world should work, not the way it actually does.
- king_magic 8y agoI think you’re actually arguing my side. All I’m saying is the candidates should be smart and capable enough to figure out those problems, which is more than enough for me. I’m not going to hire someone who can’t solve one of these problems if they absolutely needed to: these are pretty basic computer science problems at the end of the day. I’m looking for problem solving capability, not rote memorization. But at the same time I’m not going to ask them because they are condescending; it’s like asking someone with a math degree interviewing for a teaching job to explain basic algebra in an interview, which would be absurd. And if they really couldn’t do basic algebra, it’d come out through other lines of questioning.
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