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I think, though, that it's wrong to decide "this person is not intellectually curious" merely because he has never investigated the particular esoteric bit you
by jff 15y ago
I think, though, that it's wrong to decide "this person is not intellectually curious" merely because he has never investigated the particular esoteric bit you picked to test "intellectual curiosity".
I could ask you if you know the x86 calling conventions--what, you don't know? But you use x86 machines every day, and write code to run on x86! You're obviously a slave to Ruby/C++/<insert-language-here> and just aren't the type of guy to go learn things.
- aero142 15y agoLike I said, I'm not trying to find out if you know a particular thing, I'm trying to figure out if you ever learn things that are deeper than the surface. So, if you don't know x86 calling conventions, fine. But if I ask several more questions in that domain, and you don't know any of them, then I check your resume and you having been writing C level code for years, I'm concerned.