The two questions I ask every interviewer

Re:The two questions I ask every interviewer by austincheney on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:23PM (#15604664)

Presuming this is a technical interview and the skills are already identified and qualified the "what it is" isn't particularly important. This isn't hiring for marketing or product management. Make anything up. In this case the production process and software organization strategies are what matter.

Attempting to bullshit past the spirit of the question with deflections and non-answers are easily identifiable failures.

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Re:The two questions I ask every interviewer by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @04:16PM (#15605062)

> Presuming this is a technical interview and the skills are already identified and qualified the "what it is" isn't particularly important.

It may not be important to the person asking the question, but it's actually quite central to being able to have a coherent answer.

A better question, if the “what” isn't important, is to identify a concrete thing rather than a “revolutionary idea”; if “what?” isn't important, don't ask a question which fundamentally requires having an answer to “what?”.

> Attempting to bullshit past the spirit of the question

Asking a poorly framed question and blaming the person questioned for bullshitting for not correctly deducing the intended spirit certainly reflects negatively on someone, just not the interviewee.

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