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I think it should be fairly standard expectation to be asked relevant questions to your expertise and not trivia. The interview seemed like a really low-signal
by euvin 2y ago
I think it should be fairly standard expectation to be asked relevant questions to your expertise and not trivia. The interview seemed like a really low-signal interrogation where the folks that pass such an intense "psychological game" don't necessarily correlate to required expertise on the job.
I do agree that the spite aspect could have been reduced or removed. In fact, I couldn't really see the point the article makes: they had a bad interview, a 15 year gap, then they're building yet another search engine... to contest Google?
- derefr 2y agoBut regularly solving problems outside of your expertise is a necessary job duty in pretty much any software job. (If I were conducting the interview, I might explicitly explain that I'm going to ask them a few questions with the goal of seeing how they perform when they reach the limits of their crystallized knowledge and have to problem-solve from first principles/common sense — but I would still do it.)