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I wouldn't hire this guy, what good is a coder that has to have 3 RedBulls and can't do anything productive until the afternoon? If you can't represent your ab
by tvon 18y ago
I wouldn't hire this guy, what good is a coder that has to have 3 RedBulls and can't do anything productive until the afternoon?
If you can't represent your abilities away from a computer on a whiteboard or in a conversation to a reasonable extent, you are not as good as you would like to think you are, and the guy who can do it is better than you.
He didn't miss the job because he couldn't answer the questions, he missed the job because someone else could.
[edit: Okay, I might be a bit grumpy, but I think the gist of my comment is spot-on]
- sgk284 18y agoThe point of my post was that coincidences happen. I had an off day (which we all have) that also happened to coincide with an interview. I usually don't need energy drinks or the afternoon (although many software engineers perform better in the evening). I usually can represent my abilities, and execute on them just fine, in any context. This day was a statistical outlier compared to my average day. If this was routine for me, it wouldn't have seemed so unusual.... but screwing up really badly once after nailing it 30 other times seemed interesting to me.
- tvon 18y agoHmm, re-reading things, I seem to have been caught up in a thread here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=565038 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=565038) and in my mindless annoyance I mistakenly applied the thread logic to the post. Apologies.
- defen 18y agoTo be fair he was coming off 4 hours sleep after a cross-country flight to CA. Most people would need a few Red Bulls to think clearly for a tech interview in that situation.