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While it's an interesting story, I don't think this Ask HN was meant as a "what's your greatest weakness" job interview question.
by formerly_proven 2y ago
While it's an interesting story, I don't think this Ask HN was meant as a "what's your greatest weakness" job interview question.
- stevejb 2y agoWhy this comment? This was a really interesting anecdote about how complicated situations in life can be.
- aguacaterojo 2y agoi think that the story is loaded with about 80% superfluous context and 20% story. op worked at us airforce base managing access control to global intel systems. he delegated authorisation check to jr. jr told op they checked out, however, jr had not adhered to latest security protocol that required cross checking request against request database, relying instead only on physical credentials. op granted access however asked that an officer watch the civilians’ access directly. a week later it turns out the civilians were conducting pen testing for the systems and op had to debrief how they gained access.
- fsckboy 2y agoand he doesn't sound humbled
- AndrewKemendo 2y agoNothing more humbling than 1000 people being shown your error But hey, if that didn’t come through, at least it was an exposition problem ;)
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- AndrewKemendo 2y agoHey if you consider that my greatest weakness then I’m doing great!