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I never understood the point of interview questions like this. Like, really? You're going to ask another adult to fill a screen with black and expect them to tu
by lexapro 5y ago
I never understood the point of interview questions like this. Like, really? You're going to ask another adult to fill a screen with black and expect them to turn it off? Why??
- IgorPartola 5y agoBecause often times interviewers like to feel clever and come off as smarter than the people they are interviewing. It’s a very human thing to do. And something we should strive to avoid as I think it’s a terrible quality.
- Piskvorrr 5y agoAs an interviewer, you're not looking for a solution; it's supposed to be an ice-breaker, to get a technical conversation going. Doesn't always work, but good enough. (OTOH, if the interviewer has no idea why they're asking this, and they're just blindly checking off boxes from "The Greatest Checkbox List For Interviewers (tm)", it will fail like any other tool wielded by a clueless user. A very specific failure mode here is "THE BOOK has The One True Solution, and I'm expecting you to read my mind and choose this.")