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Finding out how someone reacts to being told they are wrong when they know that they are right is a totally valid interview technique. Furthermore, I think pas
by lukeschlather 12y ago
Finding out how someone reacts to being told they are wrong when they know that they are right is a totally valid interview technique.
Furthermore, I think past basic fizzbuzz questions, complex interview questions are good, but someone failing to get an objectively correct solution to an objectively difficult problem is just one signal among many. The goal of asking the questions should be to gather lots of other signals about how you approach writing software, not to pronounce you right or wrong.
- fsk 12y agoIf someone was playing emotional tricks on me during an interview, such as telling me I'm wrong when I'm right, I'd lose interest in the opportunity. One interviewer tried yelling at me for no reason, just to see if I would react or flinch.
- pmiller2 12y agoSeriously? People do that? I hope you walked out.
- fsk 12y agoI was polite and stayed until the end. It was through a headhunter, so I decided to be polite. I knew that was a no-go interview after 1 minute, when I saw that everyone working there was Indian.
- SnacksOnAPlane 12y agoI had an interviewer tell me that I was wrong that DNS ran over UDP. Not sure if the interviewer was trying to run some psychological test or if he was just wrong.