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But not knowing what you don't know is really to be expected of people who are recent grads in particular. I think this reveals why the question is problematic

• lostcolony 12y ago
  Then we will have communication issues and it will be difficult to work with you. The question was worded "On a scale of 1 to 10 how fluent do you feel in X". This is explicitly -fluency- (or phrased another way, "how well do you know X"), not something completely undefined like "How good are you at X?". The question is asking you to project your own perceived scale over a reasonably definable axis, not an ambiguous one. Project the question into another domain - "I passed my intro Spanish class", "Oh yeah, on a scale of 1 to 10 how fluent are you in Spanish?", "I'm a 10". Nope.
  • jiggy2011 12y ago
    There's a difference between being fluent in something and mastering it. You might be capable of reading and writing Java code, but that says nothing of your knowledge of JVM internals or of any particular framework etc. It's like the difference between being fluent in Spanish and being able to use the language to write moving poetry or having a very extensive vocabulary. I think it is much better to be as specific as possible about what skills you expect the candidate to have going in and what you expect them to be able to learn on the job.