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> What you want to avoid is someone saying "yeah I'm excited to use the nested lambdas and variants and callbacks and asynchronous systems" because this shows t

> What you want to avoid is someone saying "yeah I'm excited to use the nested lambdas and variants and callbacks and asynchronous systems" because this shows they just want to play with toys, not solve problems the business has like too many bugs, or slow runtime, or missing features. How does that sentence show that, exactly? All it shows is that they're interested in new technologies. That says nothing about whether or not they are interested in "[solving] problems the business has like too many bugs, or slow runtime, or missing features". Those two are not mutually exclusive; one can certainly care about both. Taking it a step further, who gets excited about "[solving] problems the business has like too many bugs, or slow runtime, or missing features". That certainly sounds like what someone would say to please their interviewer more than anything.

snovv_crash 4y ago
> How does that sentence show that, exactly? On its own, it doesn't. But if they don't show some interest in what the business is doing as well, it's a red flag, because they will probably end up building something the business doesn't want or need, or fulfill requirements without foresight or understanding into future business direction, but rather based on what they find stimulating (aka more complicated than necessary, at the limits of their understanding). > Taking it a step further, who gets excited about "[solving] problems the business has like too many bugs, or slow runtime, or missing features". That certainly sounds like what someone would say to please their interviewer more than anything. Anybody working in a small team where you have embedded people from all aspects of the business and work together to make the company successful. So, me, and everyone I'm interested in working with? If you're in a giant company and the only satisfaction you can get from your work is the toys you get to play with, to me it's just a sign of corporate disfunction and misalignment between business and engineering.

snovv_crash 4y ago

> How does that sentence show that, exactly? On its own, it doesn't. But if they don't show some interest in what the business is doing as well, it's a red flag, because they will probably end up building something the business doesn't want or need, or fulfill requirements without foresight or understanding into future business direction, but rather based on what they find stimulating (aka more complicated than necessary, at the limits of their understanding). > Taking it a step further, who gets excited about "[solving] problems the business has like too many bugs, or slow runtime, or missing features". That certainly sounds like what someone would say to please their interviewer more than anything. Anybody working in a small team where you have embedded people from all aspects of the business and work together to make the company successful. So, me, and everyone I'm interested in working with? If you're in a giant company and the only satisfaction you can get from your work is the toys you get to play with, to me it's just a sign of corporate disfunction and misalignment between business and engineering.