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Were they a python engineer? I interview folks all the time in languages I don’t understand, and I ask dumb questions throughout the interview. I’ve been a prof
by jjj123 10mo ago
Were they a python engineer? I interview folks all the time in languages I don’t understand, and I ask dumb questions throughout the interview. I’ve been a professional (non-python) programmer for over a decade now and I don’t really know what :-1 means, I can guess it’s something like slicing until the last character but idk for sure.
- tagyro 10mo agoyes, they were (theoretically) a python developer, should have mentioned this was an ML role (your guess is right, slice just before the last char) Just to be clear: the main problem is not that they did not know what `:-1` was - there are many weird syntax additions with every version - understandable. IMHO the problem is that there's usually a single interviewer that decides go/no go. We all have biases, so leaving such an important decision (like hiring an EM) to one person is, (again IMHO) ...stupid .