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in clear probability related context, the guy uses "uniformly distributed" and "normally distributed" interchangeably. I usually fail interview with such guys.
by VladRussian2 13y ago
in clear probability related context, the guy uses "uniformly distributed" and "normally distributed" interchangeably. I usually fail interview with such guys.
The most recent spectacular failure happened when interviewer asked about sets, i described Java Set interface as an example (they are Java shop so i thought the choice was right), looking dissatisfied he asked to talk about "sets" in general, and got, lets say, really confused, when i tried to elicit whether he means naive set theory - seeing that i didn't hit what he wanted, i offered along the lines of Russel's theory of types, ... the guy got almost angry and said "just sets in general", and i kind of supposed that we settled on naive, though it sounded like he didn't like "naive"... he asked what we can do with a set, like for example iterate over its elements, i noted that that of course depends on the set's cardinality ... by look on his face at that moment it was really clear that the interview is finished.
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- hnriot 13y agoIt's not a good idea in an interview to antagonize your victims like this. The goal is to find out what they know, not be a forum for you to show off what you know. This is a very common mistake by interviewers.
- VladRussian2 13y agoI was saying it as the one being interviewed. I conduct interviews differently, in particular never give small problems, and mostly i just drill down various items on their resume (sometimes in the areas lesser known to me, so i'd learn something from the interview :) in the direction what they did, how, what alternatives were considered and why that specific design/approach was chosen over the alternatives, etc...
- jurassic 13y agoSounds like the parent comment was the interviewee, not interviewer.
- MidsizeBlowfish 13y agoOoops, that was a typo, thanks for catching it!
- epoxyhockey 13y agoThis was almost painful to read, mostly because I've been through the same kind of interview many times. It is also amusing that another comment here is assuming that you were the interviewer in this example, when you were actually the interviewee. The depressing thing is that this interviewer probably went back to HR (if the company even had an HR department) and told them that you didn't know anything about basic sets (whatever that means). The interviewer's line of questioning amounted to guess what number I'm thinking of that is between 1 and 100.