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Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by StreamBright on Sunday April 09, 2017 @02:12PM (#14073560)
There few questions that you can learn to answer but it is probably very hard to reach the 5 star answer if you do not understand what you learned in detail. An example question would be: what happens when you type www.domain.com into your browser and hit enter. You can answer this many different ways and levels.
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Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by autotune on Sunday April 09, 2017 @02:53PM (#14073748)
That question has also been asked so many times most candidates who have done a few minutes of googling can give you the "right" answer. See here: https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when/blob/master/README...

I'd probably start here to lighten up the mood due to how cliche the question has become:

https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when/issues/231

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Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by StreamBright on Sunday April 09, 2017 @03:59PM (#14074073)
Candidates doing a few minutes googling to find this, but will they put in the few months to get to the bottom of every aspects of it?
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Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by autotune on Sunday April 09, 2017 @04:48PM (#14074286)
Probably not if they have actual work to do rather than memorize easily google-able trivia questions.
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