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I'm wondering how to answer that? Ask the interviewer. One of the things that I find most difficult about interviewing is when the candidate doesn't ask me any
by jfb 13y ago
I'm wondering how to answer that?
Ask the interviewer. One of the things that I find most difficult about interviewing is when the candidate doesn't ask me any questions during the technical parts of an interview. If you aren't sure, you need to ask me -- I am perfectly capable of misphrasing a question or assuming you have context that you don't. Asking your coworkers for help is a perfectly legitimate problem solving strategy.
Interviewing is stressful and hard; no need to make it more stressful and harder on yourself.
- totalforge 13y agoI sometimes ask questions and get 'What would you do if there was no one to ask?' and 'What would you do if there was no Google?' and I would like to understand this. Should I have everything rote memorized? Should everything I do be a bespoke solution?
- jfb 13y agoThe latter is a gentler way of saying, "no, I want your solution to this trivial problem". The former is a question about your work process; for instance, if they say, "ok, so build Twitter" and you respond rationally with, "what of Twitter should I build?", they're probably looking for how you operate in an environment with underspecified work. It might be a good idea to talk about how you'd defend your decisions to draw the boundaries of the problem; why you chose to ignore e.g. streaming updates or following; &c.