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It probably isn't good enough. But it's hard for the audience to tell. "Any questions?" "How are we going to scale the data storage?" "Oh, we're confident th
by twic 3y ago
It probably isn't good enough. But it's hard for the audience to tell.
"Any questions?"
"How are we going to scale the data storage?"
"Oh, we're confident that the data will all fit in a single SQLite instance."
"Great."
It's only six months later, when it turns out it won't, and there's a lot of stress and panicked re-working, that the lack of preparation will be obvious. And by then, everyone will have forgotten the presentation.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoThis is less spitballed presentation and more spitballed design. The latter is much much much worse.
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- somsak2 3y agoIf all you need to answer that question is "we're confident that X" then that's still a problem with the asker. Why are they confident? Have we modeled the data needs over time? What data are we even storing? Basic probing questions should either uncover the lack of preparation or show that things will indeed be fine. Just like cheating is a problem for a teacher to solve, a lack of preparation is a problem for the audience to solve.
- boondoggle16 3y agoThis is only true in a low-trust society. In a high-trust society, it's absolutely on the presenter to make their claims not only true, but realistically true, and acceptable by the average person. When people defect from that norm, they are shamed, or worse.
- somsak2 3y agoAren't we talking about an environment where there are rampant cheaters? My perception was that this is by definition a low-trust company. Of course, it is always going to be easier to remove yourself from that situation and go to a company that has more rigorous interviews that would catch cheating in the first place.
- mannykannot 3y agoThe corollary of your argument is that hiring rampant cheaters produces (by definition, as you say) a low-trust company. Putting aside everything else, low-trust organizations are intrinsically dysfunctional (though it may take a while for the consequences to play out.) In them, asking more questions will not get you useful information, and you had better watch your back. See, for example, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Hoxha's Albania, the Taliban's Afghanistan...