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It's always nice to see someone do an honest self assessment, and then own up to it, even the negative parts. My current office-mate is like this, he sucks at
by sophacles 17y ago
It's always nice to see someone do an honest self assessment, and then own up to it, even the negative parts. My current office-mate is like this, he sucks at coding, but is very broadly knowledgable in tech stuff, and very good at bringing ideas together, and getting broad strokes of what needs to be done fleshed out. I'm sure a lot of places will hire someone like this, but the job title is usually Architect or similar.
As a tangent, if I was him, I would fess up to this at interview time -- any employer who doesn't want good self assessment from employees doesn't deserve someone like this.
- wyw 17y ago"Fess up" is an interesting suggestion but I'm pretty sure that would not go over well in an interview situation even with many employers who otherwise would be good to work for. Admitting weakness in an interview is generally just giving the other side arguments to use againsnt your candidacy with very little upside. In some rare cases you may find someone empathetic but I doubt it's worth the risk.