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At the interview stage, the candidate has been looking at your use case for at most a couple of hours with very little context. Assuming you've done any work on
by jjk166 6y ago
At the interview stage, the candidate has been looking at your use case for at most a couple of hours with very little context. Assuming you've done any work on X and that you are competent, X is probably a good choice or at least there's good reason to believe it is a good choice. It might be nice if the candidate asks why you chose X over Y, but they shouldn't seriously propose that you should switch over to Y. Best case scenario they're assuming their little glimpse gives them a deeper understanding of the problem than you, which suggests they're cocky, worst case they may be deliberately selling you on a potentially worse solution that they just happen to be more comfortable with, ie they're inflexible. A good developer should wait until they know what they are talking about before they form an opinion on what would be the right tool for the job.