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Every "bad interview" story that graces the front page of HN has this common theme that the interviewee is an infallible genius who aces every question. I know
by bookface 13y ago
Every "bad interview" story that graces the front page of HN has this common theme that the interviewee is an infallible genius who aces every question.
I know there's a bias here (better engineers are probably more likely to blog in the first place and most people would rather write about an experience where they're the "victor"), but it would be nice to read an article from someone acknowledging their own failure just once.
- conjectures 13y agoYou've also got to wonder whether what gets voted to front page HN is biased. Could be there's lots of accounts of abject failure out there - just nobody is amused by them.
- reikonomusha 13y agoI see what you're saying, but I can provide at least one counterexample. This was on the front page whenever: http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=2055 http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=2055 There were loads of interviewee issues that occurred in the article. Hopefully that balances things a little.
- bookface 13y agoGood read. Thanks for that. edit: HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6243627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6243627
- at-fates-hands 13y agoWhen I read stories like these, I don' think of it in terms of the interviewee being a genius and "above" the silly questions they ask them. For me, it's a look inside a company who doesn't have their shit together and doesn't know how to properly interview candidates for the position they're hiring.
- sgustard 13y agoSee the story of the person who broke down crying at an interview, from last week - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6389293 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6389293