quadrifoliate

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by quadrifoliate 7y ago
Hey, thanks! That's a good, positive way of restating the issue that I had completely missed. I'll try to think of things more in this way in the future, and state them that way in potential interviews.
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by quadrifoliate 7y ago
Serious question for you, or anyone else for that matter – what is the most memorable answer you have received to this question? [Broad details are fine, assuming you feel comfortable sharing them.]
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by quadrifoliate 7y ago
> I'm usually launching a barrage of follow-up questions that zoom in and out all the time I would probably fold under this style of questioning even when describing a completely true and even interesting project that stands apart f
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by quadrifoliate 7y ago
For a lot of the work I do, this is heavily grounded in context and therefore useless to the interviewer. “I undid some hacks that Dave who left two years ago had put in the test suite because he just really liked stacking Python decorators
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by quadrifoliate 7y ago
Resume-driven development is unfortunate; but a valid strategy when employers who run everything on one server that hasn't been updated since 2003 start listing 5 years of Kubernetes experience as a requirement in their job posting.
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by quadrifoliate 7y ago
> This is not helpful for a Dutch person like me (who are usually very direct) While we are at this, I think Dutch people should work on being less "direct", and also try to improve their sentence construction when writing Engl
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by quadrifoliate 7y ago
> When a doctor interviews for a job, they don't ask the doctor to perform six surgeries in a day for free and then say, "we'll get back to you"...have interviewed countless "senior engineers" with degrees f