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Another sad thing, which I gladly didn’t see that much (but there still were a few interviewers) in the Bay Area compared to the East Coast, is asking terms, fu

Another sad thing, which I gladly didn’t see that much (but there still were a few interviewers) in the Bay Area compared to the East Coast, is asking terms, function names, definitions, slang, etc. Expecting people to remember functions’ syntax is a sin in itself! All this leads to hiring people with good memory vs smart people. That’s especially wrong when all these information is only a Google search away. And being smart can’t be acquired or substituted with search engine results. I hate this, and have run afoul of it multiple times[1] over the past few years. I once had an East Coast company decide I didn't "know Unix" because I couldn't regurgitate the POSIX API over the phone. [1] My focus has always been on East Coast/Midwest companies

aangjie 14y ago
This reminds me of startup asking me verbatim quote from memory " what does python's lambda return?" Apparently he was trying to figure out whether i knew, it used the 'C' function pointer implementation. And the answer was function pointer. My annoyance with this is that, i was explaining my experience/past projects in python. This question is one level of abstraction lower than the context. I knew it used 'C' function pointer. I hardly got the question. I was answering, it depends on what statements you write within it. :-). Edit: And oh, i had a list lying in my drafts page and published now. http://www.blog.anandjeyahar.in/?p=1272 http://www.blog.anandjeyahar.in/?p=1272